Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

With ongoing caregiver staffing and retention challenges, at-home care organizations are looking to leverage the employees already on the payroll, maximizing their potential in order to benefit from the full range of their skills. The Pennant Group (Nasdaq: PNTG), for instance, expanded its 100 CEO initiative.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

To address this issue, some providers of at-home care are turning to sensor technology. Such technology holds the potential to increase safety, reduce costs and even enable new models of care that involve shorter and more flexible home care visits. Cypress Home Care Solutions is one such provider.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In the past, home care companies like Right at Home and 24 Hour Home Care partnered with ride-share companies like Uber (NYSE: UBER) and Lyft Inc. The partnership between Synergy and BetterHelp signals the types of partnerships that home care could be turning to next.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 29, 2024

A nurse by training, Tim Ashe, chief clinical officer at Wellsky, knows the challenges that burnout, staffing shortages and bed capacity have on clinicians and the health system.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 6, 2025

The ideal is that you have these longitudinal plans of care for patients, and you can move them between and among all of our care-at-home platforms to prevent that patient from going back to the hospital, Keefe said. Thats the work that we’re doing. Maybe we can do three.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 21, 2025

Kelsie Reed Blakeney, a registered nurse with nearly a decade of experience, has founded Ablake Healthcare in Columbia, South Carolina, to provide compassionate and comprehensive home care services for seniors and their families. We ensure high-quality service by conducting in-home client assessments,” she stated.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 1, 2025

More than 400,000 seniors and medically fragile individuals in Pennsylvania rely on home care but caregivers and nurses are leaving the industry at an alarming rate to work in neighboring states or settings that offer more competitive wages. Pennsylvanias home care reimbursement rate is $20.63

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Home Health Care

APRIL 21, 2025

Private equity firm Waud Capital Partners has acquired MedTec Healthcare, a provider of in-home care and adult day services. The deal, announced Monday, is part of Waud Capitals strategy to build a home-based services platform through a newly announced holding company, Altocare.

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Home Health Care

MAY 24, 2024

The home care veteran Jeff Bevis is taking on a new challenge as CEO of Concierge Care, a nurse registry platform. A co-founder of FirstLight Home Care and most recently the COO of Caring Senior Service, Bevis has been in home care franchising for nearly two decades.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 23, 2022

If they meet certain criteria to be safely cared for at home, they will receive two in-person nursing visits per day. To enroll, patients must have been seen in an emergency department and evaluated. They can connect with a dedicated clinical team, just as they would in a hospital.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 4, 2025

Thats according to a 2024 Cost of Care survey conducted by Genworth and CareScout, for which Genworth reached out to over 140,000 long-term care providers across the country to complete more than 15,000 surveys for nursing homes, assisted living communities, adult day health facilities and home care providers from July to December 2024.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 28, 2025

Eighteen home-based care companies managed to grab a spot on Entrepreneurs recently released 2025 Franchise 500 ranking. Companies like Senior Helpers, Right at Home and FirstLight Home Care are making return appearances on the list after earning a spot last year. It provides personal care services in 30 states.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Nurses spend less time coordinating phone or video calls manually, as the app streamlines the process. tracking patient expressions for signs of distress) and expanding to international hospitals or creating a mobile version for outpatient or home care usage. What about operational efficiencies and ROI?

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Home Health Care

MARCH 17, 2025

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Whether its helping frontline workers become franchise owners, or launching a leadership development program Nurse Next Door is investing in empowering future leaders that will strengthen the entire company. Home Health Care News recently caught up with Thorpe.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 18, 2024

Nurses of Mass General Brigham’s hospital-at-home program have voted to unionize, and the clinicians at the health system’s home care segment are hoping to follow suit. On May 16, 80 of the health system’s home-at-hospital nurses voted to join the Massachusetts Nurse Association (MSA).

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 5, 2024

We know that most adults want to age in place at home, which is the right place as its proven to be better for overall health and well-being and more cost-effective than an institutionalized setting, Help at Home President Tim ORourke told Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In doing so, AI-powered clinical documentation tools could help mitigate physician burnout and enhance the efficiency of health care delivery. Home health providers are hoping AI tools can do the same for their nurses. Pinnacle Home Care is an Oldsmar, Florida-based home health provider.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2024

10, Thomas Doyle, general counsel for the Oregon Nurses Association, a labor union, wrote to the director of OHA. One comment from Paul Goldberg, a retired director of the Oregon Nurses Association, expressed concern about Providences motivation for pursuing the deal. Nearly all of the submitted comments are opposed to the transaction.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 24, 2025

Differentiating an in-home care business can be challenging and requires a diverse portfolio of services. Home Health Care News recently interviewed Kevin Smith, CEO of Best of Care, based in Quincy, Massachusetts. The home care landscape and climate are currently in flux.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 17, 2025

With about 70% of the 73 million individuals aged 65 and older projected to require home care by 2025 and a shortage of professional caregivers, organizations like Caretech and Seniors Helping Seniors are tapping into the invaluable resource of experienced senior caregivers to meet the increasing demand for home support.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Ali Morin, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at symplr As technological innovations, AI and challenges in healthcare continue to grow, it’s imperative for healthcare leaders – especially clinical ones – to be digitally competent and step into the forefront of change with skills and expertise to support a better future.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Home care providers are now required to be licensed by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). As part of this new licensing requirement, home care agencies will pay an initial application fee of $500, rather than the previous $25 registration fee. These new regulations took effect on Aug.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The Fairview, Texas-based company this week announced that Bill Dombi, former CEO of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), has joined its Board of Advisors. With this as the backdrop, Home Health Care News recently spoke with G. Additionally, it is the most cost-effective option.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 18, 2024

The budget proposal includes over $1 billion in cuts to the states’ home care programs. CDPAP is a state Medicaid program that allows people who need care, known as home care consumers, to hire the caregiver of their choice. This program is popular in the state because of the autonomy it gives home care consumers.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 29, 2024

Home care leaders are not just operating in their own individual bubbles. These leaders are part of a larger ecosystem of organizations that make up the home-based care space. In a sea of providers, the best leaders are the ones who are able to recognize which of their home-based care peers are standouts.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 31, 2025

With nominations in the categories of Behavioral Health, Home Health & Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care, Senior Housing & Senior Living, and Skilled Nursing (SNF), the program showcases exemplary character and performance of frontline workers across the care continuum.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 10, 2025

Individuals requiring home health care often need complex support that addresses both their medical and psychosocial needs, especially if they are isolated from typical social interactions and services. Care Integration aims to help clients find the right level of care at the right time, she explained.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home care medicine has expanded significantly since the COVID-19 pandemic, with increasing demand from patients and improved payment models – in some cases. Home health organizations have begun creating their own nursing pipelines due to this issue.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 10, 2025

Headquartered in Sebring, the company provides a variety of non-medical, in-home care services to Highland County communities, including Avon Park and Lake Placid. These services range from companionship to personal and respite care. Synergy HomeCare has opened its newest franchise location in south-central Florida.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

As the home care industry embraces technological advancements and strives to enhance patient outcomes, Right at Home is poised to tackle ongoing challenges. Right at Home is one of the largest providers of personal home care in the United States, with more than 700 franchise locations in the U.S.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 2, 2025

Home Instead a franchise company with one of the largest home care footprint in the U.S. However, Home Instead isnt the only home-based care company that has an eye for recruiting and leveraging outside talent. Home care is a human business, and so was sports journalism.

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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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Home Health Care

MARCH 27, 2025

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In January, I wrote a story on pediatric private-duty nurses that has become one of our most-read articles so far in 2025 and elicited reader engagement. One reader wrote to me expressing support for companies offering this type of care.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Consequently, we are beginning to see waitlists and backlogs for individuals seeking care.” ” Care Advantage provides in-home care services in Virginia, Maryland, Washington D.C. and Delaware including personal care aides, certified nursing assistants and skilled nursing.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 27, 2025

By leveraging real-time data and predictive analytics, hospitals can streamline discharge planning, ensuring that patients transition efficiently and safely to the next stage of care. Research has shown that AI-driven tools enhance care coordination, reducing hospital readmissions and improving patient outcomes.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The same goes for value-based care opportunities. Home Health Care News recently sat down with Michael Johnson, the chief researcher for home care innovation at Bayada Home Health Care, to chat about that – and much more. Home health aides make sure it gets done. It’s super important.

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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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