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Top 10 Learnings For Home Care Agencies from COVID-19

AlayaCare

PPE is an ongoing concern : Staff safety and adequate PPE remains one of the top concerns among home care agencies today. In fact, according to results from a survey conducted by Home Care Pulse , along with widespread mask shortages, the majority of agencies report a glove shortage as well.

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2020: The Year of Whole-Person Health and Wellness

AlayaCare

With this in mind, as we enter 2020 with a renewed focus on wellness, those who operate in the delivery of care must embrace the social determinants of health. Home care workers bring patients a whole-person wellness focus that most busy doctors just don’t have the bandwidth to provide.

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Family Resource Home Care Expands with Companion Care Acquisition

Hospice News

Family Resource provides end-of-life, respite and personal care, along with services such as medication management, meal preparation, housekeeping, companionship and dementia support. We are thrilled to announce our acquisition of Companion Care, Inc., in 2020, just below the national average of 47.8%

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NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue Unveils New Palliative Care Unit

Hospice News

For the palliative care unit, [it’s] collaborating with nursing staff, hospital medicine teams and the administrative side to make sure that the right patients end up in those beds.” The new palliative care unit has four dedicated patient beds.

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CareSource Partnership with Radiant Alliance, to Combine Hospice, Palliative Care, Senior Living and Payer Assets  

Hospice News

Branded at Ohio’s Hospice at United Church Homes, it provides care in more than three communities across the senior living company’s footprint. The United Church Homes partnership also includes Pure Healthcare, Metta’s palliative care and supportive services affiliate, established in 2020.

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AlayaCare Modernizes Home Care in Newfoundland & Labrador

AlayaCare

As demand for home-based care continues to skyrocket, all Canadian provinces are mobilizing to digitize and modernize the way they will work with public and private home care providers.

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Is your agency keeping up with home care technology?

AlayaCare

Adrian Schauer identified that one of the major trends in 2021 would be a significant shift in home health-care from technology-enabled to technology-centric. Even though there was a demand over the past two years to implement technology, there still are home care agencies falling behind.

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