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 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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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Unmet technology support needs for home care patients: Challenges in using complex medical devices at home. Incomplete investigations of infusion system incidents: Failure to thoroughly investigate infusion-related incidents can hinder future prevention efforts.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We’re uniquely positioned, using the millions of hours we spend with our clients, to connect home care to health care through our innovative care coordination management programs and services supported by our value-based care philosophy,” Julie McCarter, president of care coordination at Help at Home, told Home Health Care News.

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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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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Through the program, which recently kicked off in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bright Health is tapping MedArrive’s network of highly skilled EMS professionals within the community to conduct in-home preventive health visits coupled with physician-led telemedicine oversight to improve outcomes for more than 10,000 new members.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

In August, Comfort Keepers was fined $500,000 and forced to remove language from its contracts restricting caregivers from accepting positions with home care clients up to one year after terminating employment. This is standard practice with service-based businesses across many industries. Chamber of Commerce.”

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 21, 2025

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership As home care leaders look to the rest of 2025, they are considering how their current payer mix will impact their organizations and leaning into the business opportunities that will move them forward. There very much is a role for that in home care.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

There are many areas that top home care leaders believe are untapped wells of business opportunities for the industry at large. As such, leaders at companies like Home Helpers, HCR Home Care and Help at Home are leaning in. Based in Chicago, Help at Home has more than 180 branch locations across 12 states.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 30, 2024

While home care leaders haven’t been able to completely eliminate turnover, some have embraced creative solutions that have moved the needle. Companies like Griswold Home Care and Senior Solutions Home Care have begun to leverage automation, gamification and more. We actually enjoy turnover,” he said. “We’re

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Home Health Care

MARCH 3, 2022

A Los Angeles-based health system is teaming up with a home care provider to give patients an easier path in their pursuit of aging in place. PIH Health announced Thursday it is teaming up with 24 Hour Home Care and adding a customized service called “PIH Health at Home.” year over year.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Ochsner Health, a nonprofit health system based in New Orleans, recently announced the results of a strategic partnership to deliver acute and transitional care services at home. This initiative is designed to prevent low-acuity admissions from emergency departments and help reduce readmissions after patient discharge.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 2, 2024

However, years after nationwide implementation, EVV still remains a burden for home care providers. Simply put, EVV confirms the details of in-home visits. The app sends the necessary information from their devices to their agency’s home care software.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 26, 2024

Leaders at companies like Help at Home, HCR Home Care and Home Helpers are making major changes at their organizations with an eye towards the future. At Home Helpers, the biggest change that has taken place over the past year has to do with data and informatics. We’ve invested in a lot of technology.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2024

He urged OHA to prevent any further changes in the ownership, license or administration over Providence health care entities, including home health and hospice agency licensures, while OHA reviews whether the proposed joint venture must go through the HCMO process.

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Home Health Care

MAY 20, 2024

The caregiver hasn’t shown up to care for their client during the shift, and they’ve left the home care agency without giving any notice. Generally, this is what’s known as caregiver ghosting, and it continues to be a challenge for home care providers. It can’t be overstated,” she said.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 22, 2024

Aaron Marcum, founder of Breakaway Home Care Accelerator With the advancements in medical care and the resilience of the human spirit, most people now live longer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention supports this, publishing data about the rise in life expectancy in the U.S., reached a staggering $136.2

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But the road to implementing effective pop health strategies is laden with challenges: monitoring chronic illness rates and preventing community transmission, triaging emergencies over routine health care circumstances, and executing preventive services all require providers to alter their traditional fee-for-service workflow.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

One of the big questions surrounding HIPAA is if it applies to providers in the home-based care space, specifically personal care agencies. In general, HIPPA applies to organizations that are paid for health care in the normal course of business.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The department gathered this information by surveying licensed home care agencies in the state about vaccination levels among their workers. Overall, the percentage of vaccinated home-based care workers is higher than expected but those who have missed the deadline are unable to continue working. That requires a runway.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 29, 2024

DispatchHealth was founded in 2013 and started as a digital health care company that offered on-demand, on-site services at home. The company now provides a range of health care services to patients in their homes — aiming to prevent costly hospitalizations and emergency room visits.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2024

What You Should Know: – CopilotIQ , a health tech company focused on improving the lives of older adults with chronic conditions, and Biofourmis , a global leader in technology-enabled home care solutions, have announced a strategic merger.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

From October, residential aged care providers could start offering verbal or written monthly care statements voluntarily to their residents. Home care visit verification platform leverages FHIR Health tech startup didgUgo is set to provide IT system interoperability to its partners who use its care visit verification solution.

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Home Health Care

MAY 22, 2024

. … With high medical costs and health care use among MA members, plans recognize that supporting preventive services and in-home care, especially when available over in-patient or facilities-based care, can be an effective way to drive down costs.”

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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 23, 2024

Amid Medicaid changes, the most relevant news to home care providers is the aforementioned 80-20 provision, which will force HCBS providers to direct 80% of reimbursement to direct care workers. “We National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President William A. We would advise against that.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In order to become less dependent on fee-for-service business, home health providers have begun to take on more risk. That has led to an emergence of risk-based home care models, many of which have given providers room to partake in upside and downside risk. These areas are chronic care management and preventative care.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 14, 2022

based Georgetown Home Care (GHC) has yet again lowered readmission rates for a major hospital. Its readmission success ostensibly began in 2019 when the home care agency first worked with spinal surgery patients at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital. The Washington D.C.-based to 6% in 2020.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

"Health professionals will be able to use best-in-class software applications and services in combination with electronic health records to enhance care delivery and decision-making within clinical workflows," said one theme statement. Respondents also wanted a reduction in duplicate testing and preventable safety events.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 24, 2023

With the home care industry at a “pivot point,” it’s important for providers to take more control over their near- and long-term futures. I think where we have an immediate opportunity is in how to partner with skilled home health,” Slupecki said. “I Many home care companies believe they are capable of doing more in the home.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 30, 2023

That, in turn, is a promising sign for more at-home care opportunities in the future. The reality is access is a challenge for these patient populations and care redesign will be critical to prevent the acute exacerbation of their medical conditions.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

The good news is that burns are preventable, and we learn several terrific strategies for doing so from The Family Oops and Burns First Aid. ″ square, packs a huge amount of self-care knowledge about burn prevention and treatment for home and workplace — the two sites where most burns happen, WHO attests.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2022

That’s the focus for Home Care for the 21st Century, a Florida-based home care provider and franchiser that has helped open over 8,000 home health and hospice agencies throughout the country. McCauley said the specialization of health care in the U.S. has actually helped the home-based care industry.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

What You Should Know: – Sensi.AI, the leader in care intelligence, announced a partnership with Right at Home Canada, one of the world’s foremost providers of in-home care, to enhance senior care through proactive, data-driven insights. billion annually. Notably, 8.5%

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