Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

"But I think when it comes to hospital at home, it's so different and unique that you need to implement it carefully," he said. Fuller noted that hospital at home care isn't simply a way to increase the number of beds available. "A lot of people will end up hospitalized when they could have been at home."

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Utilizing telehealth technology helps alleviate overburdened and short-staffed clinicians as much as it helps them care for their patients. Telehealth solutions also can be used to share knowledge from experienced nurses. Hybrid care is about combining personal encounters with virtual engagements.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The Home Care Association of America (HCAOA) is backing home care-focused legislation introduced by Vice President-elect J.D. The Continuous Skilled Nursing Quality Improvement Act (S.4122) Medicaid standards should reflect the unique work of nurses who provide complex one-on-one care to individuals at home.

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Home Health Care

MAY 18, 2022

This is what the members of the newly formed Home Care Workforce Action Alliance are banking on with the announcement of the Voices for Care at Home campaign. The Home Care Workforce Action Alliance is the byproduct of some of the biggest industry stakeholders on the trade association side.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A recent national salary and benefits report highlighted an increase in turnover rates for home care aides in 2024 and a trend among home health agencies to offer sign-on bonuses to attract new employees. When comparing salaries by agency type, DCS in visiting nurse agencies earned the highest average salary of $137,931.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 31, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership As the cost for home care rises, some providers are finding that clients have more of a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to mistakes or mishaps in care delivery or care planning. They want to know] if this is a trusted brand,” she told Home Health Care News. “Is

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 7, 2023

While home care providers are working to mitigate headwinds – such as the rising cost of delivering care and staffing challenges – they also have their eye on where the industry goes from here. As 2024 approaches, home care leaders are embracing AI, alternative payer sources, employee-centric solutions and much more.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

A family owned and operated Midwest home care agency has thrived locally for nearly two decades. Francis’ background in health care and business management positions her to drive the organization’s growth and enhance its mission of providing dependable, compassionate care to individuals seeking to maintain independent living.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 14, 2022

For seniors, receiving skilled care at home – instead of at a skilled nursing facility (SNF) – could have considerable benefits, including better patient experience and lower costs. Half of the patients were treated at their homes and half were treated at a SNF.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

As tech enablement opens up a world of opportunities in home care, the human is still going to be there. Over the last year, we’ve had the opportunity to be part of the VA’s term program tech-enabled respite home care pilot. There’s a growing population of people who need caregiving, want to stay in the home.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

. – 94% believing that government oversight was important to help direct care workers in nursing homes and home care agencies protect older adults. Nearly half of respondents not believing they would need direct care support as they aged, although 66% will in reality.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 12, 2024

The pricing increases in home care have again outpaced other long-term care sectors, according to Genworth’s (NYSE: GNW) annual cost of care report. In 2023, the cost of a home care aide increased by 10% to an annual median cost of over $75,000, according to Genworth. from 2022 to 2023, but a total of 18.9%

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Home Health Care

APRIL 23, 2024

BrightStar Care has built a reputation as one of the home care industry’s innovators. Past examples of the home care franchise company’s pioneering spirit include its investment in small-home senior living residences and its educational partnership with Chamberlain University.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Additionally, geriatric nurses oversee the process and guide the coaches’ interactions with seniors. We have an app for caregivers and a portal for home care agencies,” Rae said. Care agents also reported a noticeable improvement in mental wellbeing among participants.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 22, 2024

Aaron Marcum, founder of Breakaway Home Care Accelerator With the advancements in medical care and the resilience of the human spirit, most people now live longer. Historically, nursing homes have served a purpose, but the majority of this population calls for a different approach. reached a staggering $136.2

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 15, 2024

Home care turnover is the highest it has been in five years, indicating an industry-wide employee retention crisis. This was one of the critical insights from Activated Insights’ – formerly Home Care Pulse – 2024 Benchmarking Report. of home health care and hospice nurses and 12.8%

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

SeniorBridge is a home-based care organization that offers complex chronic care management for seniors. The organization’s care management team includes nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers and caregivers. (NYSE: HUM) plans to close shop at most of its SeniorBridge locations before the end of year.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Minneapolis-based Allina Health, working with Flare Capital Partners, has launched a new company, Inbound Health, designed to help health systems and payers design and build hospital-at-home and home-based skilled nursing programs. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

There are many areas that top home care leaders believe are untapped wells of business opportunities for the industry at large. As such, leaders at companies like Home Helpers, HCR Home Care and Help at Home are leaning in.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Though the company has seemingly changed course of late – bolstering its capabilities and services and becoming an in-home care and high-acuity care powerhouse – Prather said what the company is in the process of becoming what it was meant to be from the start. “To We’ve always partnered with home health,” he said.

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) published a critical report during the pandemic , finding that “the way the United States finances, delivers, and regulates care in nursing home settings is ineffective, inefficient, fragmented, and unsustainable.”

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Home Health Care

MAY 20, 2024

The caregiver hasn’t shown up to care for their client during the shift, and they’ve left the home care agency without giving any notice. Generally, this is what’s known as caregiver ghosting, and it continues to be a challenge for home care providers.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. My wife also works for the same home care agency — Family & Nursing Care. HHCN: What drew you to this industry?

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2024

OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to home care. THE PROBLEM This issue stemmed largely from gaps in continuous care during transitions between these settings.

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Home Health Care

JULY 8, 2024

The in-home care company HarmonyCares – formerly known as U.S. The Troy, Michigan-based company is already in 15 states and cares for over 70,000 patients under Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) programs. Medical Management – has raised $200 million.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Most Americans will need some sort of in-home care support as they age. To age in place, seniors either need to be completely independent or have some sort of personal care afforded to them. If they qualify for Medicaid, home- and community-based services are an option. The issue is that many of them cannot afford it.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 4, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Over the last several years, a notable trend is emerging in home care: Top-tier companies are shifting their focus from prioritizing customers to prioritizing caregivers. Caregiver preferences Caregiver shortages are a significant barrier to home care company growth.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Gentiva – the company comprised of the hospice and personal home care assets of what was formerly Kindred at Home – has reportedly agreed to acquire ProMedica’s Heartland home care and hospice assets for $710 million. Led by the former CEO of Kindred, David Causby, Gentiva is backed by both Humana Inc.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Well Care Health is divesting its personal home care division to Avid Health at Home. For Well Care Health, it’s an opportunity to capitalize off of the demand for its well-established home care footprint, while also focusing on a new strategic direction moving forward.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 3, 2022

For the longest time, home care providers were just trying to gain a foothold in the broader health care sector. Now times have changed, as home care services have proven to be an integral part of the overall system, especially during the public health emergency. Michael Slupecki, CEO of Griswold Home Care.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The home-based care staffing environment will always be a challenge for providers, but things look far better now than they did two years ago in the wake of the pandemic. Home health providers are desperate for nurses, and affordable ones.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A lot of personal home care providers have been conducting business the same way for decades. One of the biggest opportunities out there is collaboration with your competitors in your local market,” HomeWell Care Services CEO Crystal Franz said during Home Health Care News’ FUTURE event in Nashville.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Thomas Sowers, vice president of community supports at 24 Hour Home Care, has been named a 2024 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

JULY 26, 2023

One of the biggest challenges adult day faced during those years was the inability to collect federal funds in the same way home health, hospice and home care providers did. As home care providers’ billing rates rise, a smaller portion of the population can pay for services. in 2021 was $1,690. “I

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Delivered by the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network and Hunter New England Local Health District (HNELHD), the free virtualKIDS service connects families with a clinical nurse who helps determine the best care pathway for their children and their non-life-threatening health concerns.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 25, 2023

The in-home care provider, which specifically serves complex behavioral health patients, has opened up shop in Colorado. It takes a “data-driven approach” to caring for a population with complex behavioral health needs. The company leverages nurses as well as specialists “across the continuum of care” to care for these patients.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 13, 2023

Its rollout for home visits will follow soon. In a home visit, nurses wear the VR headset and are guided virtually by a doctor in a remote location. WHY IT MATTERS According to a media release, the HoloLens provides patients with a "level of care much closer to an in-person examination than a regular telehealth appointment.

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