Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The Fairview, Texas-based company this week announced that Bill Dombi, former CEO of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), has joined its Board of Advisors. With this as the backdrop, Home Health Care News recently spoke with G. Additionally, it is the most cost-effective option.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2024

For-profit home health and hospice agencies often employ fewer registered nurses, social workers and full-time clinicians compared to non-profit agencies. Such practices negatively impact the quality of care that patients report experiencing, Halson wrote. Providence at Home with Compassus will be the name of the new venture.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 17, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The Medicaid Access Rule has been heralded by home care providers as a mostly good rule with one misguided piece: the 80-20 provision. Billing rates have already soared in private-pay home care since the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced providers to get creative.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 15, 2025

Based in Irving, Texas, LifeCare Home Health Family is an in-home care provider that offers home health and private-duty home care services across 10 affiliated branches. Last year, Zenyth Partners made an investment in LifeCare Home Health Family.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2024

It also allows it to expand its home health footprint in Certificate of Need (CON) states. Aging Advocates CNY acquires Senior Home Care Solutions The care management practice Aging Advocates CNY announced in late July that it had agreed to acquire Senior Home Care Solutions.

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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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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. This is where home care becomes the most suitable solution. The benefits of home care extend beyond the emotional aspect.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 13, 2023

The company continues to seek collaborations with both private and public healthcare providers to expand its mobile home care model. This partnership will also ensure our operations remain sustainable in the long run and our patients receive the care they need anytime, anywhere," said Parkway Shenton CEO Tay Wee Kai.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 30, 2024

Home Health Care News recently caught up with these leaders to learn their in-depth thoughts about the Medicaid Access Rule. The finalization of the Medicaid Access Rule presents significant challenges for family-owned and family-operated home care agencies like ours. Here’s what six of them had to say.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Gentiva – the company comprised of the hospice and personal home care assets of what was formerly Kindred at Home – has reportedly agreed to acquire ProMedica’s Heartland home care and hospice assets for $710 million. Led by the former CEO of Kindred, David Causby, Gentiva is backed by both Humana Inc.

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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

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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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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HIT Consultant

MARCH 21, 2025

“We’ve proven the home can be an extension of the hospital while improving the quality of care. This merger brings together two complementary pioneers in hospital-level care at home, accelerating our ability to expand access, lower costs, drive value, and improve capacity for health systems across the country.”

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 8, 2025

Overall, technological advancements will significantly enhance care delivery in the home, making it more sophisticated, robust and safe as we expand the types of support we offer. What challenges do you anticipate in integrating new technologies into existing health care frameworks for home care?

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The value-based care model is gaining momentum in the healthcare industry, and it is not hard to see why. After all, value-based care – which rewards healthcare providers with incentives based on the quality of care they provide to patients – has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and reduces costs for patients.

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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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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 9, 2024

What You Should Know: – NTT DATA , a global leader in healthcare IT, and Duke Health , a world-class academic and healthcare system, are collaborating to create a highly interactive and technologically advanced model for augmented home care delivery.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 12, 2025

These programs empower individuals to choose their own caregivers, addressing unique cultural needs and fostering personal connections that enhance mental well-being and the quality of care. These programs are earmarked for Medicaid recipients who require personal home care to live independently, according to Perrin.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 15, 2021

ECH Dandelion, a care hotel operated by South Australia-based home care provider Enabling Confidence at Home, has been equipped with a technology platform for aged care communication and delivery from health IT provider Rauland Australia. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. ON THE RECORD.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Bill Dombi, former president and CEO of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice, has joined the companys Board of Advisors. New Day also recently acquired Houston-based home health provider Christian Senior Care Services. New Day Healthcare recently announced two major developments at the company.

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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

MARCH 21, 2025

Kelsie Reed Blakeney, a registered nurse with nearly a decade of experience, has founded Ablake Healthcare in Columbia, South Carolina, to provide compassionate and comprehensive home care services for seniors and their families. Our clients are assigned a primary caregiver to foster trust and enhance overall quality of care.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2022

Home care franchise giant Seniors Helpers entered this year with big ambitions, partly fueled by its April 2021 acquisition by Advocate Aurora Enterprises. For our latest episode of “Disrupt,” Home Health Care News caught up with Ross to learn more about Senior Helpers’ plans in 2022 and its relationship with Advocate.

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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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Home Health Care

MARCH 31, 2025

In a crowded home care market where numerous organizations are vying to be seniors provider of choice, standing out has become increasingly critical. At Pansy Homecare, differentiation has meant leaning further into its specialty of providing dementia care in the home. Listen today on Apple Podcasts or SoundCloud.

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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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NCQA

APRIL 15, 2025

Learn More Watch our webinar about early screening, diagnosis and treatment of congenital syphilis, and how the patient-centered medical home care model can be used to address the issue. If your organization would like to participate in this testing effort, contact Tejal Patel.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As home health providers increasingly serve people with more complicated and serious conditions, and the push for cost-effective and value-based care continues, wound care is becoming more important than ever. The demand for knowledgeable providers and clinicians in home care has increased dramatically.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 19, 2022

According to the Coalition for Care Partners announcement, a growing body of research published by the Lipitz Center and partner researchers finds that working with and providing resources for care partners also has a profound effect on the quality of care and uptake in using healthcare services.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 19, 2024

Building a successful and sustainable caregiver training program in personal home care demands meticulous planning and execution. “My old business manager used to have a saying: ‘He or she who has the caregivers wins,’” Bob Roth, co-founder and managing partner of Cypress HomeCare Solutions, told Home Health Care News. “In

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Ringold sat down with Home Health Care News to discuss his career trajectory and centering home care business around the caregivers. I started my career in the home care industry in 2010, but my first experience with home care was as a patient. What quality must all Future Leaders possess?

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 14, 2025

What You Should Know: – Eir Partners (Eir), a middle market private equity firm focused on healthcare technology and tech-enabled services, today announced a growth investment in Porter, the only platform dedicated to connecting plan members with the resources, services, products, and education they need to live their best lives at home.

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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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Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2021

Despite ebbs and flows to COVID-19 case counts throughout 2020 and preventative measures being implemented in nursing homes as the crisis went on, nursing homes remained a hotbed for infections throughout the year. The Choose Home benefit does not have any cost sharing or cost shift to beneficiaries,” Dombi responded.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

“There’s a tendency towards price suppression in our category, and so value-based care is a way to differentiate, and to be able to share the performance that we’re already creating for our patients in their homes,” Moss said during the discussion. Integrated Home Care Services is a driver of value-based care in the home.

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