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Arizona agency's omnichannel approach to home health includes telehealth and RPM

Healthcare It News

Later this fall, we are offering in-person house calls and remote house calls with the use of MedWand connected technology, which enables our providers – doctors and nurse practitioners – to conduct a remote house call with all the clinical-grade data needed from body temperature to ECG/EKG readings.

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From Code to Compassion: How Analytics Put Dignity into End-of-Life Care

HIT Consultant

Bent Philipson, Founder of Philosophy Care Data analytics in end-of-life care offers more than insights; it provides a pathway to honoring patient dignity and integrity in what is often an intensely personal, deeply human experience.

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How Large Health Systems Are Integrating Home-Based Senior Care

Home Health Care

Hospital systems are now making a greater effort to collaborate with senior care providers – including those in home-based care – to elevate care delivery. Key players in this larger move to work more closely with senior care providers, or to integrate that care directly, are Kaiser Permanente and Trinity Health.

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Future Leader: Erin Masterson, Associate Principal, Senior VP Of Post-Acute RCM, SimiTree

Home Health Care

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. When I first started my career, I had no idea what home care was. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link].

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Part Payer, Part Provider: VNS Health Embraces The Future

Home Health Care

The turnover rate for home care nurses in their first year at VNS has gone from 14% to 6% in the past year. We have a nurse residency program designed to address this. It provides ongoing support and education for new home care nurses, and it pairs them with more seasoned nurses who act as RN preceptors.

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Transactions: Compassus, BrightSpring Finalize Deals; Agape Care Group Expands

Home Health Care

“We are excited to welcome Haven Hospice into BrightSpring, expanding our existing hospice services into the CON state of Florida,” BrightSpring President and CEO Jon Rousseau said in a statement. ” Compassus provides home health, home infusion, palliative, hospice and home care services across 30 states. “We

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CMS is Taking Action to Address Benefit Integrity Issues Related to Hospice Care

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Effective oversight and enforcement are important to protect the integrity of the Medicare program, especially for vulnerable, seriously ill individuals and their families. Unfortunately, hospices are profiting from fraud at the expense of beneficiaries far too often.