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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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 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

JULY 19, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The home health industry has its very own boogeyman — the bad actor. The outright fraud, where it’s very overt and purposeful, is the greatest concern,” he told Home Health Care News. We would much prefer to see a targeted capability applied,” Dombi said.

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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

MARCH 9, 2022

health care system has learned that home-based care companies are well-positioned to respond to unique challenges, with at-home care approaches often boosting patient satisfaction, lowering costs and improving quality of care. Over the past few years, the U.S.

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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. The Full Report is found here.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Plenty of companies took notice of that and rode the wave as coordinators and directors of that care format. Consumer Direct Holdings (CDH) is one of the largest self-directed personal home care companies in the country. The company has seen substantial growth because of its bet on the value of self-directed care.

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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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Home Health Care

JUNE 28, 2023

“We really need to take a look at all the administrative burdens that we’re placing on the home health industry. We should be applying more of our resources in how we truly improve our quality of care, efficiencies and optimization of our clinicians.” That’s largely been the case in Florida. “It National expansion next?

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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 20, 2022

Since then, connectRN has hired a VP of its home health business in Cora Jaulin, who had worked for over a decade previously in the non-medical home care world with Arosa and HouseWorks. . Not only managing the quality of care being delivered, but also in supporting a clinician when she’s the only person in the home.”.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 22, 2024

The Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services (Access rule) final rule advances access to care and quality of care, and will improve health outcomes for Medicaid beneficiaries across fee-for-service (FFS) and managed care delivery systems, including home- and community-based services provided through those delivery systems.”

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 4, 2023

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Hannah Luetke-Stahlman, Vice President of Solutions Management at WellSky, and Sheila Davis, Senior Vice President of Area Operations at Always Best Care. The discussion took place on November 16, 2022, during the HHCN Home Care Conference in Chicago.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The ensuing public health emergency acted as a catalyst that underscored the critical need for high-quality health care accessible within the comfort of one’s home. As a result, at-home care emerged as a lifeline and organizations like Axxess were ready to answer the call.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 9, 2023

She shares some best practices for building a wound care management program in today’s operating environment, and she also discusses the key ways in which providers can cut costs without sacrificing quality of care. Home Health Care News: What career experiences do you most draw from, in your role today?

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

When it comes to policy, Gurian believes a more full-picture approach needs to be taken by health care regulators and stakeholders. From a LeadingAge perspective, there’s also sort of a lack of focus on the continuum and big picture for long-term care and how we need all the pieces to fit together from a policy perspective.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

What are some industry challenges and market conditions in home care, home health, and hospice you pay the closest attention to? The big challenge in this industry is caregiver recruitment and retention, and according to the 2023 Home Care Pulse Benchmarking Report, turnover in 2022 was 77.1% — its worst since 2018.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 30, 2024

I have assessed hundreds, if not thousands, of home health, hospice, home care and other related opportunities. These organizations often have similar objectives regarding employees, quality of care and access to care. I spend 100% of my time focusing on home care, drawing on my experience in this area.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Early trials of the model found the total cost of at-home care was 32% less than traditional hospital care, the length of stay was one-third shorter and the incidence of complications was dramatically lower. HaH can reduce hospital overcrowding and provide care that aligns with patient preferences,” O’Sullivan said.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 1, 2022

HHCN: Matt, what’s your background in home health and home care, for our audience who might not be familiar with your work? Wolfe : I am an attorney with the law firm Baker Donaldson and I represent health care providers across the continuum of care. That includes home health, home care and hospice providers.

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Home Health Care

MAY 12, 2022

The regulators determine the timeline for the audit process and we’re doing everything we can to satisfy the requirements to lift the sanctions.”. InnovAge’s plan to remediate and transform — which the company has dubbed “One InnovAge” — has three key dimensions.

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NASHP

JANUARY 12, 2024

Direct care workers — such as personal care and home care aides as well as certified nursing assistants — provide care services to individuals and older adults with complex needs.

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NASHP

MAY 20, 2022

Although states can promote family caregiver services through licensure, regulation, and outreach, the most powerful policy lever that states have to increase access is funding key services and supports. California: Extensive use of self-direction as an alternative to out-of-home care. How States Assist Family Caregivers.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 11, 2025

The hearing centered on concerns regarding proposed budget cuts to Medicaid and their potential impact on the quality of care patients receive in the future. He advocated for expanding pay-for-performance to reward high-quality providers and emphasized the need to enhance effective value-based care models.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

North Carolina’s InCK program , led by Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, brings together partners from Medicaid, behavioral health, child welfare, juvenile justice, education, Title V, mobile crisis, and more to coordinate care and address the health and social needs of children in five counties.

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Vie Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2023

But, look, what they realized as they were giving these drugs to patients for type two diabetes is that in addition to helping to regulate blood sugar, people were losing crazy amounts of weight. Well, I think one of the best ways to maximize the effectiveness of virtual care offerings is through in-home care and in-home tools.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

From there I moved into home and community-based services, all the 1115 waivers in the state of Colorado, and oversaw the Adult Protection Area Agency on Aging and other adult services programs. From there, I moved into the trade association space and was the CEO and executive director for the Minnesota Home Care Association.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 7, 2022

This validation process will support work at NHS Digital to develop new AI assurance processes and bespoke training, as well as helping to clarify a structure for AI regulations. There has been increasing interest in the role of AI to support disease diagnosis, improve system efficiency and enable at-home care. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 22, 2022

In February 2022, President Biden announced a comprehensive set of reforms to improve the safety and quality of nursing home care, hold nursing homes accountable for the care they provide, and make the quality of care and facility ownership more transparent so that potential residents and their loved ones can make informed care choices. [1]

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Home Health Care

JULY 22, 2024

Kathy Hochul last week told reporters that the state’s self-directed home care program has become a “racket.” While New York’s program – dubbed the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) – is unique, self- and consumer-directed home care has become a much more popular model over the last few years across the country.

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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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NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

People with serious and life-threatening health conditions experience care needs that drive costs, including hospital admissions , emergency department utilization , and nursing home care. Arizona’s End of Life and Advanced Care Planning benefit is referenced in its MCO contracts and further described in state regulations.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 2, 2022

“CMS is ready to implement this vision and at the foundation is the establishment of minimum standards for staffing in nursing homes,” Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, CMS Administrator, said in a press statement. Home health providers] should start preparing for it now, so they’re ahead of the curve.”.

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Sheppard Health Law

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Background The proposed rule is part of the Biden administration’s broader attempt to improve nursing home care, while increasing transparency and accountability. CMS believes that more transparency will help the public evaluate and compare facilities, and help regulators monitor bad actors.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 31, 2023

In this approach, patients and doctors share decision-making and benefit from a variety of care delivery methods, such as virtual appointments, community resources and in-home care. There is already momentum at the federal level to prioritize whole person care.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 29, 2023

Nurse staffing levels vary considerably across nursing homes nationwide, and by nursing home characteristics such as location, size, and profit status. Federal regulations require nurse staff availability 24 hours a day, but do not specify a minimum staffing level. Below are key findings from the Staffing Study.

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