Daily Nurse

AUGUST 10, 2023

After a hospitalization, home healthcare enables patients to recover where they feel most comfortable: in their homes. Nurses visit patients to provide care to keep them at home, given that hospital readmissions cost the U.S. healthcare system more than $41 billion each year.

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AlayaCare

MAY 3, 2022

Home care is on the precipice of seismic shifts. And ignores that many patients prefer to stay at home, especially when it comes to aging with dignity and independence. The home care industry has risen to the critical challenge of supporting patients to choose where they want to receive care.

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AlayaCare

MAY 2, 2022

Home care is on the precipice of seismic shifts. And ignores that many patients prefer to stay at home, especially when it comes to aging with dignity and independence. The home care industry has risen to the critical challenge of supporting patients to choose where they want to receive care.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 28, 2022

The caregiver employment crisis has the home care industry on its toes looking for solutions to employee churn. One of those solutions is to evaluate the top complaints caregivers have on the job and improve them to increase employee retention. We’ve also compiled some tips to help get you started.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 29, 2022

The caregiver employment crisis has the home care industry on its toes looking for solutions to employee churn. One of those solutions is to evaluate the top complaints caregivers have on the job and improve them to increase employee retention. How to create an optimal home health care plan.

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Happy Healthy Caregiver

MAY 2, 2022

a guest post written for Happy Healthy Caregiver by family caregiver, Jennifer Lagemann I’ve been through home care from three different perspectives and want to share some quick tips on how to make your home care experience seamless and stress-free.

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Data metrics and feedback gathered through the Home Care Pulse Satisfaction Management Program allow AlayaCare customers to accurately measure and improve the quality of care. The integration provides AlayaCare customers with more tools to measure and improve the quality care that they provide to clients in their home.

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Comfort Home Care

AUGUST 25, 2023

At Comfort Home Care , the leading provider of senior care services in Rockville, MD, we understand the importance of utilizing cutting-edge technology to enhance the quality of care for seniors. Smart Home Devices According to a study by AARP , 75% of adults 50 years of age and older, want to remain living in their own homes.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A coalition of hospice, home health and palliative care organizations has called on Congress to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities implemented during the pandemic. 31, these flexibilities allowed hospices to perform routine home care visits virtually and conduct face-to-face recertification visits. Currently set to expire Dec.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

VitalCaring Group has leveraged AI technology to help improve quality among patients with cognitive conditions and ease caregiver burden. The home health and hospice provider released results of its new automated intelligence (AI) program. Families also reported reduced caregiver burden as independence and cognitive skills improved.”

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Comfort Home Care

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

At Comfort Home Care , the leading provider of senior care services in Rockville, MD, we understand the importance of utilizing cutting-edge technology to enhance the quality of care for seniors. Smart Home Devices According to a study by AARP , 75% of adults 50 years of age and older, want to remain living in their own homes.

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Corecubed Care Marketing Solutions

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Effective SEO for home care requires specific expertise and strategy – not false promises. Our team of home care SEO experts has compiled the information you need to make the best decisions for your agency. The post Improve SEO for Home Care with These Expert Tips appeared first on corecubed.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Telehealth utilization for palliative care during the last decade has been associated with improved quality of life, patient satisfaction and symptom management. Telehealth has consistently demonstrated improvements in symptom management and quality of life, particularly in home-based settings, the analysis found.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

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. There’s so much potential to improve access, to expand it to a larger population, improve awareness about the benefits of palliative care as well.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This is an opportunity to do something in this Congress that is concrete, specific, that will save money and improve the quality of care for some of our most vulnerable people …” Blumenauer told Hospice News at Elevate. This is an essential part of being able to humanize the health care system to improve patient outcomes.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation’s (CMMI) Kidney Care Choices (KCC) Model demonstration has increased utilization of dialysis in the home and has fostered greater clinician training in addressing related conditions. The model also includes incentives designed to improve care management.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Palliative care is becoming an increasingly prevalent part of the care continuum, with payers, providers and investors recognizing the potential for these services to improve quality outcomes and reduce costs, he stated. said at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC) Financial Management Conference in Las Vegas.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The data come at a time when hospices are striving to better understand how to improve those groups’ end-of-life trajectories. About 38% of a total 50,400 Asian American Medicare decedents elected the hospice benefit in 2022, according to the National Alliance for Care at Home. This is compared to 51.6% of more than 2.1

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Compassus on Wednesday completed its partnership with the health system OhioHealth, a move aimed at improving care coordination and access. Announced in June, the partnership joins the two organizations under the new brand OhioHealth at Home. Compassus provides home health, home infusion, palliative and hospice care across 30 states.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Palliative care is often delivered in the hospital setting or in the home, but a number of organizations have set up clinics to deliver those services. While they offer an alternative to home-based services, they present their own unique benefits and challenges. One of the benefits of the clinic-based model is improved access to care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 12, 2024

The program is branded as Blue Ridge Independence at Home, designed to offer seniors a “comprehensive” suite of services to address medical and nonmedical needs and help them stay in their homes, the organization indicated. It’s tremendously expensive, but it’s a very sustainable model of care that improves outcomes.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Addressing social determinants of health and caregiver needs will be key to improving outcomes during a time when seniors lack both confidence and access to a range of medical and nonmedical services. We need more data to learn more about the impact of these models to know where there are places we can improve.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2024

A cornerstone of the company’s strategy is fostering growth through value-based contracts in its private duty and home health businesses. The company sees this approach as a pathway for improving hiring and building clinical capacity. million decline in the company’s home health and hospice segment compared to Q2 2023.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2024

Arkansas-based Hospice of the Ozarks has launched a non-medical care training program to improve caregiving support. Through the program, interdisciplinary staff use phone calls and in-person visits and assessments to assist caregivers who are navigating the needs of serious and terminally ill patients in the home.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2024

Avow Hospice has implemented a triage system that has resulted in improved quality scores and reduced turnover. To address this, Avow began front-loading some home visits to the night shift, according to Powell. One reason some of them had left was boredom due to the low number of home visits they were making, Gatian indicated.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Settings examined included acute care hospitals, health care clinics, long-term care facilities and the home. The findings suggest that people with substance use disorders often have more complicated and costly end-of-life trajectories, with several socioeconomic and practical barriers to improved quality, according to the researchers.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has outlined the range of services that will be available to patients aligned with the agency’s Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) payment model. Many of those providers agree.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2024

Though the bill language is still in development, key provisions will likely include a new payment mechanism for high-acuity palliative services, changes to the per-diem payment process and actions to improve quality and combat fraud. This is an essential part of being able to humanize the health care system to improve patient outcomes.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2024

The home health and hospice provider formed when the company spun off from Encompass in 2022. The consideration was in part driven by recent large-scale transactions in the home health and hospice space. The Dallas-headquartered company has 112 hospice locations and 256 home health locations across 34 states. Enhabit Inc.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This is particularly true for people living in the nation’s 15,000-plus nursing homes. The grant, spread out over a five-year period, will be put toward the team’s creation of a national network structure that seeks to include more nursing home residents in clinical trials. As the U.S. Dr. Kathleen T.

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Hospice News

JUNE 18, 2024

The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) have announced the completion of their affiliation agreement. Unifying the voice of health care at home has been a longstanding goal of NAHC, as it is the essence of the original formation of NAHC in 1982.

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) has launched the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) payment model with close to 400 participating organizations, including many palliative care providers. The CMS Innovation Center announced the GUIDE demonstration in July 2023.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 6, 2024

Strategic priorities for Texas-headquartered Addus HomeCare Corporation (NASDAQ: ADUS) continue to focus on personal care and home health and less on hospice as the company waits for the dust to settle following its Gentiva personal care acquisition. Addus offers personal care, hospice and home health. The company saw 10.4%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2024

recently unveiled a new caregiving program aimed at improving support for patients with dementia-related conditions. The Connecticut Hospice operates a 52-bed palliative care and hospice inpatient facility and provides home-based care across 70 cities in its home state. The Connecticut Hospice Inc.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

A diverse range of health care providers have forged a pathway to palliative care services with an aim to improve quality outcomes among a growing seriously ill population. A lack of support for caregivers is among the “number one” issues among seriously ill patients and families, when transitioning care into the home, she stated.

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JUNE 28, 2024

Dallas-based senior care provider Elara Caring has acquired Caregivers Home Health, expanding its footprint in Kansas and Iowa. Our relationship-based approach and value-based care mode – combined with our innovative care delivery – has improved patient outcomes in communities nationwide.” Our patients love us and providers rely on us.

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