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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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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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 18, 2022

“After decades of exposés, special commissions, and advocacy, the moment has arrived to commit to making the residential nursing home a good place to live (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2022). The horrendous death toll for nursing home residents and staff, 15.4% 2021; Eiken et al.,

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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

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

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

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

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Home care providers are now required to be licensed by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). These new regulations took effect on Aug. 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.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2024

OHAs HCMO program evaluates health care business transactions to ensure they do not negatively impact citizens or communities. The program also empowers state regulators to impose conditions on acquisitions and mergers or reject deals they find anti-competitive. Providence at Home with Compassus will be the name of the new venture.

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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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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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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

OCTOBER 9, 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. Taylor Abo-Hamzy, chief strategy officer at Care2U, has been named a 2024 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 28, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Examination of Staffing Shortages at US Nursing Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic was published in JAMA Network Open on July 27, 2023. Meaning : Findings from this study suggest that staffing shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic placed strain on nursing homes.

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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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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

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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NASHP

JUNE 30, 2023

We identified the plans of 46 states and Washington, DC and found that 40 states and DC planned to sustain at least one flexibility post-PHE through waiver amendments, legislation, and/or regulations: Allow Medicaid payment to parents, spouses, and/or legally responsible individuals — at least 22 states Increase Medicaid payment rates for direct care (..)

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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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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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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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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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NASHP

MARCH 28, 2022

Nursing Assistants. Typically, nursing assistants also provide personal assistance with self-care activities. Nursing assistants may perform some delegated nursing tasks under clinical supervision. A certified nurse assistant (CNA) is qualified to work in a Medicare-certified nursing facility.

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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

MAY 24, 2024

The solution is two-fold: First, CMS must stop cutting Medicare home health care funding. Cutting funding year after year has only created turmoil in the very industry that is essential in providing stable, in-home care for vulnerable Americans. A skilled nursing facility costs an astronomical $16,500 for that same care.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 8, 2023

So it’s important for us that we attract and retain highly skilled nurses to be able to provide care for them.” Introducing a workforce-sharing model could potentially add complications when it comes to providing quality care to patients, some believe. They’re quite complex,” she said. “So

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Tammy Ross: I want to start with the fact that I have been a registered nurse for over 30 years. When we’re looking at workforce and workforce development, the key asset right now is our nursing workforce. I think the goal for most people is, “Let me just find more registered nurses. That’s not working now.

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