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Mass General Brigham’s Hospital-At-Home Nurses Unionize, Home Care Segment Moves To Follow Suit

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Nurses of Mass General Brigham’s hospital-at-home program have voted to unionize, and the clinicians at the health system’s home care segment are hoping to follow suit. On May 16, 80 of the health system’s home-at-hospital nurses voted to join the Massachusetts Nurse Association (MSA).

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Study Shows SNF-at-Home Care Feasible, Less Costly

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The study was conducted between August and September of 2019 and used a pilot trial where 10 patients were randomly assigned to rehabilitation-at-home (RAH) care. Half of the patients were treated at their homes and half were treated at a SNF. Now we need to do the rest of the work to replicate it in a bigger sample.”.

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Comfort Keepers, HCP Announce New CEOs; PocketRN Adds Home Care Vet

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Comfort Keepers, a division of Sodexo, is an in-home care franchise that has over 700 locations across the world. Prior to being named the CEO of Comfort Keepers, Abdine served as the global head of corporate development and asset management with Sodexo Worldwide Home Care. The organization is an affiliate of St.

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Emory Healthcare scores with an 'Uber app' for at-home PT

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"While we have a number of PT clinics in or near our regional offices for our musculoskeletal practice, we have a lot of patients who come to us from a distance that is not as practical to travel for frequent rehabilitation," said Dr. Scott Boden, chairman of the department of orthopedic surgery at Emory University School of Medicine.

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Amedisys, Contessa Team Up With University Of Arkansas To Offer In-Home Care Services

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(Nasdaq: AMED) and Contessa Health are teaming up with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to offer at-home care services to patients in Central Arkansas. The post Amedisys, Contessa Team Up With University Of Arkansas To Offer In-Home Care Services appeared first on Home Health Care News.

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24 Hour Home Care Buys Non-Medical Division of Home Health ‘Bundling Expert’ GrandCare

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An example of the latter M&A tactic happened Wednesday, with 24 Hour Home Care buying the non-medical caregiving division of GrandCare Health Services. We thought it was a great opportunity,” Ryan Iwamoto, the president and co-founder of 24 Hour Home Care, told Home Health Care News.

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Central Adelaide Local Health Network introduces digital 'pre-hab' for surgery patients

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The surgical pre-rehabilitation programme dubbed My Prehab was developed in partnership with Health Translation SA, The Hospital Research Foundation, and healthcare tech company Personify Care. The Central Adelaide Local Health Network has launched a new digital programme which aims to help make a patient fit for surgery.