Home Health Care

MARCH 10, 2025

Addressing social determinants of health (SDoH) is becoming increasingly important due to new regulations from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the shift toward value-based care payment models. 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

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

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

JULY 11, 2022

A new proposal in Pennsylvania that would create “unnecessary” duplication for how disabled patients choose their home care providers and receive care is causing some angst in the Keystone state. Choosing a home care agency or caregiver plan is one of the highest priorities for people living with disabilities in Pennsylvania.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership At some point in their lives, most Americans will need some type of in-home care support. The issue is that — due to the caregiver shortage, the rising cost of care, Medicaid qualifications and a number of other factors — many of them won’t be able to afford it.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

With more eyes than ever on the home care industry, experts are trying to read the tea leaves to determine if greater standardization will eventually follow. Once considered the “youngest kid” in the larger health care continuum, home care has been ushered into the spotlight over the past couple of years.

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In North Dakota , the state conducts LTSS Options Counseling for all Medicaid individuals over age 21 who are referred for a long-term stay in a nursing home. The state sends staff to meet with individuals and provide education on the types of care options available to them, from nursing home care to in-home care.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed. "This electronic bridge combined with our unique capabilities offered through the Penn Medicine home care division provided unparalleled strength in times of uncertainty."

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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

APRIL 2, 2025

As the law currently stands, a direct employee of home health agencies must conduct the initial admission visit, all service evaluation visits and the discharge visits. The new bill allows contracted registered nurses to provide initial visits. Thank you, Representative Franklin, for championing home care! Exciting news!

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Before other states start to consider minimum wage increases for home care workers, it would be beneficial for them to understand what has – and hasn’t – gone well in New York. In the spring of 2022, New York legislators passed a law that gave home care workers an extra $1 per hour above the state’s $15 minimum wage.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 17, 2023

Nearly 100,000 registered nurses left the field during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an analysis conducted by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN). Worse yet, the analysis suggested that nearly 800,000 more nurses could leave the field by 2027. nursing workforce moving forward.”

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

“It’s important to address a whole infrastructure, such as increasing support and training for home health aides for home visits, supporting the ability to access and use medical devices and equipment, and most important is updating key Medicaid regulations and payment models,” Reinhard said. North Carolina 42. Florida 44.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The study also revealed that at-home patients required care slightly longer than those in traditional settings, but the difference was negligible (less than a day). Feedback collected from patients, caregivers and family members about at-home care was overwhelmingly positive.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 21, 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. Policy and regulation plays a huge role in access to services and person-centered flexibilities in care. Transformative.

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Home Health Care

MAY 2, 2022

Additionally, as the population of seniors continues to grow and more people wish to age at home, the size of the caregiver pool is just not adequate. As the leader of a holding company that has over 500 home care franchise locations across the U.S. and Canada, Best Life Brands CEO J.J. Sorrenti knows these issues intimately.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 16, 2025

Based in Chicago, Prestige Home Health Care serves 12 counties in Illinois. It offers home care, private-duty nursing, and occupational therapy services. The company claims that a flawed Medicare claim appeals process has caused it to suffer millions of dollars in damages.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 27, 2023

For the first time ever, two of the largest associations representing the home-based care industry have joined together on a call to action regarding the workforce shortage. Higher prices for care would then lead to more need for Medicaid support, something policymakers would have no choice but to pay attention to.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 22, 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. When I started my nursing career, I wanted to stick to pediatrics. I think it has the brightest future out of any part of health care.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Gary Bachrach, Executive Director of Business Development, Home Care Services at The Joint Commission and Vicki Hoak, Chief Executive Officer at HCAOA. The discussion took place on November 16, 2022, during the HHCN Home Care Conference in Chicago.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 19, 2021

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Wednesday that nursing home staff must be vaccinated against COVID-19. In the wake of that news, senior care experts and post-acute care operators are considering trickle-down effects the mandate could have on other settings, including home health care.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 16, 2024

For Accurate Home Care, the biggest pain point isn’t retention, it’s recruiting new nurses to hire. “If Accurate Home Care is a Minnesota-based provider that offers home health care, private-duty nursing and non-medical home care. We lost so many nurses during COVID.”

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 27, 2023

“Minnesota has long taken pride in doing very well in providing care for Minnesotans, whether it be the older adults or people with disabilities, so I think we have continued to work on that,” Kathy Messerli, executive director at the Minnesota Home Care Association, told Home Health Care News. “I

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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.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 24, 2022

The plaintiffs in the case are Safe Haven Home Care Inc., Angel Care Inc., Elim Home Care Agency and DHCare Homehealth Inc. Under the American Rescue Plan Act, Congress set aside additional funding for Medicaid home- and community-based services as a COVID-19 emergency relief measure. “If

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Home Health Care

APRIL 9, 2024

President Joe Biden made remarks on the care economy – including home care – in a speech Tuesday at Union Station in Washington, D.C. You know, take home care,” he said. The cost of long-term care for aging loved ones and people with disabilities rose 40% in the last decade. It’s amazing. Think about it.”

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Home Health Care

APRIL 16, 2025

It focuses primarily on skilled private-duty nursing services but also offers pediatric therapy, licensed health aide services and certified nurse assistant services. This expands Aveannas private-duty services, home health and hospice care, and medical solutions in 27 states. A nurse will still be a nurse.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Many people still consider home health and home care as sectors completely separate from hospital-at-home care. As more care comes into the home, home-based care organizations are finding ways to become involved – whether through partnerships or proprietary programs. Nasdaq: AMED).

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Home Health Care

MARCH 7, 2025

Now, one of the nations largest at-home care providers, with 400-plus offices and about 25,000 families served, is a portfolio company of Peak Rock. As I explored in a Plus Update a few weeks ago, at-home care is among the health care sectors that PE firms are targeting.

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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 29, 2024

However, the federal guidance around state rates is minimal, according to Damon Terzaghi, senior director of Medicaid advocacy at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). In addition to geographic adjustments, some states do acuity use adjustments. “In

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

With this in mind, there has been more activity and investment around accountable care organizations (ACOs), including for at-home care providers, which are strategically collaborating with these organizations. Amid the pandemic, the company approached CMS about expanding at-home care services, for instance. “We

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 17, 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. If you could change one thing with an eye toward the future of home health care, what would it be? Outwork everyone!

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Home Health Care

APRIL 12, 2024

While there’s still plenty of oversight, the spotlight on home health and personal care providers appears to have dimmed somewhat. Instead of focusing on home health and personal care, watchdogs are increasingly targeting hospices, nursing homes and other areas. The active work plan for the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 16, 2024

James Aita, director, Strategy and Business Development, Medicomp Systems , a physician-driven provider of diagnostically connected patient data solutions Of course AI is the hot topic at HLTH this year–but with the new regulations from ASTP/ONC, the question is how can it be usable, trustworthy, transparent and helpful.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 2, 2022

“We always knew that there was a silver lining out there as baby boomers were getting to the age where they needed home care services, but we have not ever seen it this pronounced,” Rutledge said. In home health care, an example of the former is the nationwide expansion of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model.

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