Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2021

Specifically, the study found that although nursing home residents only represent 2% of the Medicare population, they accounted for 22% of all COVID-19 cases among Medicare members. Among dual-eligible patients, those in nursing homes were 10 times more likely than those in the community to be diagnosed with COVID-19.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 13, 2023

Parkway Shenton, which operates over 50 GP clinics across the country, taps into Speedoc's capabilities in home healthcare to offer the option to deliver care within the comfort of their patients' homes. Last year, it received $28 million in pre-Series B funding for this purpose.

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 28, 2023

CMS will publish the Nursing Home Affiliated Entity Performance Measures dataset on data.cms.com. These data combine inspection, staffing, quality, and other performance metrics across affiliated entities.

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Nursing Home Care Measurable Quality Medicare 52

Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Many aging veterans rely on nursing home care to meet their daily needs. billion for veteran nursing home care provided in state veterans homes. GAO conducted a nationwide survey to collect information on the 153 state veterans homes providing nursing home care.

Home Care 52

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Home Health Care

APRIL 27, 2023

About a dozen years ago when Will Putman took over the business development side of Continuous Home Care, his dad — the co-founder of the company — had an unofficial benchmark nicknamed “blackjack.” Continuous Home Care is a Pennsylvania-based home health provider with about 350 employees.

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Home Care Physical Therapy Medicare Accountable Care 76

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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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Quality of care is equal to, if not greater than, the care provided in a traditional brick-and-mortar setting. Providers are often able to spend more time with patients and provide dedicated one-to-one, personalized attention and care. This is really the future of care.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 7, 2022

Nursing homes play a unique dual role in the long-term care continuum, serving as a place where people receive needed health care and a place they call home. The 1986 Institute of Medicine report Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes identified a range of challenges to the quality of care in nursing homes.

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Home Health Care

JULY 18, 2022

Tampa General Hospital has thrown its hat into the home-based care ring. To pull this off, the hospital has formed a partnership with the Visiting Nurse Association of Florida (VNA), a home health agency. Together, the two organizations have formed TGH Home Care, powered by VNA of Florida.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 13, 2022

With over 400,000 data points, a new study from LeadingAge could give home-based care providers a new roadmap on how to optimize performance. It also focused on technology, palliative care, staffing and future care delivery models. Driving home health referrals. Source: LeadingAge.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 18, 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. Ringold sat down with Home Health Care News to discuss his career trajectory and centering home care business around the caregivers.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Lucas O’Connell, VP of Operations at AssuranceSD, Francesca Rinaldo, head of clinical strategy for home care at Sharecare, and Christina Andrews, senior director of professional services at Axxess. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

HouseWorks announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Greater Boston Home Health Care Inc. Founded in 1992 by Edward McGonagle, Greater Boston Home Care provides personal care services. “I Boston-based HouseWorks is one of the nation’s largest independent home care companies.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It was not our intention to debate the financial impact of our recommendations or where nursing staff will come from, given the current huge workforce shortage issues. We stand for quality care in nursing homes. The impact of disparities in nursing homes was also evident before the pandemic.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 27, 2024

Home Health Care News recently spoke with Special Touch Home Care CEO Evan Ostrovsky about the company’s 40-year history, serving 150,000 patients, its expansion into New York’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) as a fiscal intermediary, and how the company expects to grow amid these changes.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Now, being partners with the large MA plans and large hospital systems, via our Contessa acquisition, we can drive our risk-taking solutions into traditional home health and hospice, as well as increase our market size into high-acuity home care. Dan Savitt; President and CEO, Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY). * * *.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 3, 2024

HHCN: For the listeners that are unfamiliar with Vesta, can you go into detail about your company’s business model and how it works with home care providers? Klein: We are a specialized medical group for people with long-term home care. I grew up in a home care family. My dad worked for a health plan.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

At a time when home care providers are swerving into new lanes, Help at Home is doubling down on personal home care services. Based in Chicago, Help at Home has more than 180 branch locations across 11 states. It provides personal care services to more than 66,000 clients via more than 53,000 caregivers.

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Home Health Care

JULY 20, 2022

The connectRN platform was built to find nurses and other health care professionals work, particularly in skilled nursing facilities (SNF). But over time, workers were asking enough about home health opportunities that the company thought it should get further into home-based care.

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Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 10, 2022

“Staffing in nursing homes has a substantial impact on the quality of care and outcomes residents experience. These staffing measures are also used to calculate each nursing home’s star rating for the staffing rating domain as part of the Nursing Home Five Star Quality Rating System.

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Nursing Quality Improvement Quality of Care Home Care 52

Home Health Care

JANUARY 26, 2022

The article is based on a panel discussion that took place during a live Q&A session with Jason Vanhoose, Associate Director of Business Development for the Home Care Accreditation Services with the Joint Commission; Josie Rhoades, VP of Clinical Operations at Brightstar; and Kate Proctor , Deputy General Counsel for AccentCare.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 31, 2023

“Congress addressed the face-to-face encounter side of it, so we’re not going to be losing as much as we might have, if that hadn’t happened,” Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), told Home Health Care News.

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Nursing Primary Care Medicare Home Care 88

Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 29, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Nursing Home Staffing Study Comprehensive Report – June 2023 was posted this afternoon. The study also explores potential implications for feasibility of increased staffing and costs to nursing homes. million nursing home residents nationwide.

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Etactics

OCTOBER 29, 2021

America was finding so many ways to recognize these people, especially nurses, during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, nurses still enjoy the small efforts that patients make to do this. You don’t need to get extravagant with how you thank your nursing care team. Morale among nurses is low.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Training has quickly jumped to the forefront as a notable strategy for care providers to stand apart, especially as they look to other industries for talent they can recruit into care positions. Survey respondents included 97 professionals who work for organizations that provide home care.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“When we saw that go into the proposed rule, we laughed out loud,” National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President Bill Dombi told Home Health Care News. Home health aide history In 1987, Dombi took part in a class action lawsuit on behalf of NAHC and home care patients against the Medicare program.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

2020 saw three factors combine to define the future of “Hospital at Home” care in a way that will become a new care reality over the coming years. In fact, patients have generally become more amenable to being treated remotely , further supporting the move to add telehealth tools to the patient care arsenal.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 17, 2022

starting with Choose Home. Potential cost-saving is what is attracting bipartisan support for this legislation,” Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), told Home Health Care News during a recent HHCN+ TALKS episode. How NAHC views the in-home care workforce situation.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It really dovetails with our Capital City Nurses brand that is in Northern Virginia, D.C., Richmond, Virginia-based Care Advantage has 38 locations throughout Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Washington, D.C. They really hone in on just the overall, quality service delivery. Maryland and Delaware.”. and North Carolina.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 22, 2022

It provides non-medical home care, including services such as companionship visits at home, specialty assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs) and everything in between. Franchise growth was accelerated by COVID-19 across the home care industry.

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Home Care Quality of Care Nursing 81

HIT Consultant

MARCH 7, 2022

Earlier last year, the FDA issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for monoclonal antibody treatments bringing additional needs for infusion treatments in many alternate care settings. In addition to treatments from within hospitals and clinics, CMS approved infusions of monoclonal antibodies by home care providers for COVID patients. .

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Home Health Care

MARCH 31, 2023

That strategy has worked well for Bayada, a company that employs over 28,000 nurses, home health aides, therapists, social workers and other care professionals. However, it’s not as easy for smaller providers like the Dearborn, Michigan-based American Advantage Home Care. Utilization is big for us,” Moorer said.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Help at Home, one of the largest home care providers in the country, has announced three transactions. The company acquired Care By Your Side, One Care Health and AAMedcare, which are all home care providers based in Georgia. The recent activity in Georgia is further evidence of that.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 1, 2023

“Home health has a very important value,” Palak Shah, Luna’s co-founder and head of clinical services, told Home Health Care News. They have lots of different services: physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech, nursing, etc. Once it does that, it leverages its platform to offer in-home care at a reduced price.

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Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Quality of Care Accountability 78

Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2022

Florida Blue Medicare — the state’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare plan — is collaborating with Emcara Health to offer eligible members access to home-based primary care. The collaboration reflects how payers are increasingly turning to in-home care organizations of all shapes and sizes.

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Primary Care Medicare Home Care Nursing 69

NASHP

JANUARY 12, 2024

Direct care workers — such as personal care and home care aides as well as certified nursing assistants — provide care services to individuals and older adults with complex needs. Acknowledgements NASHP would like to express our gratitude to The John A. Hartford Foundation, the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

One challenge is clarifying the distinction between HaH care and other in-home health care services like home health or skilled nursing facility (SNF) care,” Heather O’Sullivan, president of Mass General Brigham Healthcare at Home, told HHCN. This could be changing.

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Hospitals Medicare Patient Safety Nursing 109