Remove right-guard
article thumbnail

California Home Care Rules & Regulations: A Guide to Staying Compliant

AlayaCare

Mitigating PAGA Risks: How to Stay Ahead A PAGA complaint can feel like an unexpected visit from a health inspector—catching you off guard and exposing vulnerabilities you didn’t realize were there. While the risk of potential lawsuits can be daunting—compliance ultimately comes down to having the right systems in place.

Home care 130
article thumbnail

New Amedisys CEO Ashworth Bullish on Contessa, Palliative Care

Hospice News

NASDAQ: AMED) sees a changing of the guard in its C-suite, the company will not be slowing down on palliative care. I know there are short-term challenges right now, some exogenous, cyclical things like labor and staffing. As Amedisys Inc. President Richard Ashworth as its next CEO. But its hospice segment revenue fell to $197.6

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Key Research Trends: State CON Laws, Dementia Patient Trajectories Reshaping Hospice

Hospice News

Having data around CON regulations and their impacts can help inform lawmakers as they develop policies to guard against fraud, waste and abuse, according to recent researchers. “We found that the states that do have CON for hospice seem to be associated with a higher level of quality, even when controlling for ownership and size.”

Hospice 245
article thumbnail

One Hospital and Community’s Rock Garden of Hope

AJN Off the Charts

To the far right were two 30-foot inflatable enclosed tents propped up to help the ED off-load abundant overcrowding inside. The garden became a place to drop your painted rock, drop your mask, drop your guard, and just breathe. Outside the big front door of our hospital is a bustling ED ramp.

2020 113
article thumbnail

Strategies To Make Sure You Don’t Hire a Bully

Healthy Workforce Institute

Therefore, it’s important now more than ever to make sure you hire the right people. Some people know the right language and may have preplanned to give the “right answers” to the most common behavioral type questions. Right now, your culture should be your number one priority. How do you make sure you don’t hire a bully?

Nursing 99
article thumbnail

Handling Heartache: Navigating Loss as a Young Nurse

Daily Nurse

However, an aspect of the job that can catch many off guard is the certainty of facing loss. How to Balance Hope with Reality Right from the get-go, when young nurses meet their patients, figuring out how to handle situations with slim chances of recovery is critical. In other words, you’ve got to balance hope with reality.

Nursing 111
article thumbnail

Hospices Welcome VBID’s Demise, But Questions Remain

Hospice News

The right call “I applaud the decision to suspend the hospice component of VBID. This is very different from a traditional health care service covered by commercial insurance, as evidenced by the guard rails that were put in place through VBID.

Demo 147