Healthcare It News

JANUARY 3, 2023

For patients with complex medication regimens, regular physical therapy or daily vitals monitoring programs, a 3D virtual care assistant can offer on-demand healthcare services. The Addison Care system, which runs on AWS and Intel, can: Remind users to take prescribed medications. WHY IT MATTER S.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

At Cincinnati Childrens, we believe our PDN program plays a significant role in the overall development and well-being of children, Jennifer Gold, senior clinical director of home care services at Cincinnati Childrens, told HHCN. By offering our services in the home, children can attend school with one of our nurses.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2025

AHN, a Highmark Health Company, is an integrated health care delivery system that includes 13 hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, health and wellness pavilions, an employed physician organization, home- and community-based health services, a research institute and a group purchasing organization serving the greater Western Pennsylvania region.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 26, 2025

In-home care has long been considered a key component in ensuring optimal recovery from knee replacements, but self-care appears to be as effective for many patients. The similarities in outcomes between home care and self-care patients may be due to trends in patient demographics.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 21, 2024

The private equity firm Waud Capital has acquired the home care franchise Senior Helpers. The health system is now offloading its primary home care asset to a private equity company that has become very active in home-based care of late. The need for high-quality, in-home senior care has never been greater.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 9, 2022

One of its first clients was Total Compass Care — a Florida-based home care provider. Total Compass Care offers personal care, companion care and skilled nursing services such as occupational and physical therapy. Brian Jolliff, COO at Total Compass Care, started the company with his sister.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

– The company plans to use the funding to further expand MSK-OS™, the Company’s remote care platform powered by computer vision. AI-Powered Virtual Physical Therapy IncludeHealth partners with musculoskeletal providers to extend their reach beyond the clinic and unlock hybrid care models.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 13, 2023

This article is sponsored by Home Care for the 21st Century. This article is based on a Home Health Care News virtual discussion with John Dapello, CEO of Home Care for the 21st Century, and Lori McCauley, Vice President of Franchise Development at Home Care for the 21st Century.

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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 Health Care

JUNE 1, 2023

A new study from the on-demand physical therapy company Luna found that in-home outpatient PT models can reduce costs by 52% compared to traditional home health services for total knee and hip replacements. They have lots of different services: physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech, nursing, etc.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

“No two referral sources and no two payers are exactly the same, and so you’re really getting to know the people who send you cases, and making sure that you adjust your communication style to fit their needs and preference on how they’re learning about your business,” Avid Health at Home CEO Jennifer Lentz told Home Health Care News.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

DispatchHealth Raises $330M for Hospital-at-Home Care. DispatchHealth , a provider of in-home medical care raises $330M led by Optum Ventures with support from current investors such as Humana (NYSE: HUM), Oak HC/FT, Echo Health Ventures and Questa Capital.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2024

At CES 2025, I’ll be updating my environmental analysis of consumer-facing health tech in the categories shown in my chart here: tracking food, weight, activity, sleep, safety, kitchens and cooking, heart functions, mental health, gait, home care, cars and mobility, and bathrooms.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Founded in 2014, Honor is a home care technology company. It owns Home Instead, one of the largest home care franchises in the country. “We’re Free will specifically serve as senior vice president of operations for the Home Instead network. Keefe has been at the company for 30 years.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2025

This became true for all aspects of health: Turbocharging telehealth and virtual care with our physicians and health professionals; Growing reach of tele-mental health with therapy accessible to many more people than had been able to benefit from psychologists, psychiatrists, and counselors in local communities; and, Taking on physical therapy at home (..)

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

So far, here’s what Home Health Care News knows about her new company, dubbed VitalCaring Group. VitalCaring will offer a variety of home-based care services including home health care, hospice care, pediatric home care and companion care.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Broadly, patients being discharged from the hospital to home health care will not need advanced approval. The types of care that will be impacted include physical therapy, occupational therapy, home health aide and nurse visits, and social worker visits.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 14, 2024

I will be leading their segment on Home and Community Services, an enormous area of focus for Highmark as it enables a shift from acute to in-home care. ” The post Adam Holton Leaves Amedisys For GE HealthCare; Former Humana Exec Joins Highmark Health appeared first on Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 14, 2022

Nice Healthcare’s model is not a traditional one, but it does rely heavily on at-home care. The home-based primary care company sells itself directly to businesses. That’s basically what the health care industry is doing with primary care.”. Aderinkomi himself comes from the home care world.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Braff Group hires former Amedisys M&A expert The Braff Group has hired Kris Novak to become the firm’s new managing director of home health, hospice, home care and pediatrics. Pendley has been at FirstLight Home Care since 2018. Our aging population demands it and FirstLight is up to the challenge.”

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Home Health Care

JULY 15, 2022

Along with the PHE declaration came a number of regulatory waivers and flexibilities meant to streamline health care processes and ease the overall burden of the pandemic for providers. For providers, the utilization of telehealth and virtual care has also served as a lifeline amid the pandemic.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

“So long as we are able to contract with a health plan or the government across all of our business units, they really get the full continuum and we can really bridge all their necessary transitions of care.”. Communication in its home-based care programs is key, Womack said.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2024

We’ve been able to do occupational therapy, physical therapy, and bring that to the home for them. The post PACE Programs Emerge As ‘Natural Allies’ To Home-Based Care Providers appeared first on Home Health Care News. There are times when people just don’t feel well.

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Healthcare Associates

MAY 26, 2023

Some sources of pain can be resolved with stretching or physical therapy, while more serious conditions may require surgery. Relief Options for Back Pain Between Shoulder Blades If you have mild or moderate pain, you can try various home care options for relieving the discomfort.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 21, 2023

Geoff is a doctor of physical therapy and a certified wound specialist who joined Amedisys 14 years ago as an administrator and rehabilitation specialty director. Based in Indianapolis, Elevance Health is a large managed care company. It also is part provider, however, and has made in-home care a priority.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 6, 2021

“When you’ve got upwards of 3% or 4% of your entire front-line workforce on quarantine, you’re now having to supplement that with contract labor and with much higher cost labor sources,” Proffitt explained during the BofA Securities Home Care Conference. “A

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Healthcare Associates

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

You should talk to your doctor if you have severe or worsening pain that doesn’t respond to home care. This could include medication, physical therapy, or surgery. You may have an injury that needs immediate attention. You may also have a condition such as arthritis or degenerative disc disease.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 16, 2023

McBee Associates is a consulting firm that works with hospital, home health, hospice and skilled nursing clients. In 2020, nearly two-thirds of agencies said LUPAs at least doubled, according to National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) data. Paying attention to patients’ needs is also key in avoiding LUPAs.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 8, 2024

One of the biggest home-based care deals of the year thus far was Waud Capital’s acquisition of Senior Helpers. The Maryland-based franchise – which was previously owned by the health system Advocate Health – will be the foundation of Waud Capital’s home care platform moving forward. That is to be determined,” Ross said.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 1, 2023

Braff Group hires former Amedisys M&A expert The Braff Group has hired Kris Novak to become the firm’s new managing director of home health, hospice, home care and pediatrics. The Cincinnati-based FirstLight Home Care has about 200 locations across the country.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 17, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Heading into 2020 — the first year of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) — many believed there would be an inevitable disruption to home health therapy utilization.

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Healthcare Associates

MAY 8, 2024

Your health care provider may recommend exercises you can do at home to help strengthen the knee and relieve knee pain. When to see a doctor You should consult a health care provider if you have severe knee pain or weakness that does not improve with home care.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 1, 2023

recently celebrated the three-year anniversary of its hospital-at-home program. In 2019, Mayo Clinic CEO Gianrico Farrugia stated that high-acuity home care would be part of not only Mayo Clinic’s future, but the health care industry’s at large. One of the most renowned hospitals in the U.S.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 9, 2022

“The Antitrust Division’s criminal enforcement program has led to the prosecution of long-running employer conspiracies against workers in multiple critical markets including physical therapy, dialysis, nursing and home health care services … with more active labor market investigations currently underway,” it stated.

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Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 28, 2022

So hospitals right now, when it comes to chronic low back pain, initially people go for physical therapy, then they come to hospitals, they are left with very little options. Let’s come to how hospitals could use it. Mostly they are asked to… sometimes given opioids. Can you just speak to that for a moment?

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Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 28, 2022

So hospitals right now, when it comes to chronic low back pain, initially people go for physical therapy, then they come to hospitals, they are left with very little options. Let’s come to how hospitals could use it. Mostly they are asked to… sometimes given opioids. Can you just speak to that for a moment?

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 11, 2023

There are 76 million baby boomers who will be 65 by 2030, and they want a better, easier way to receive health care where they prefer it most — in their homes. As we head into 2023, there’s a real opportunity for CMS to strengthen the value-based care models that make this type of innovative care happen.

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