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3 Reasons Continuous Home Care Utilization is Falling

Hospice News

Utilization continuous home care has dropped precipitously during the past decade, with labor pressures, regulatory scrutiny and billing challenges as contributing factors. Continuous home care (CHC) represented 0.9% Each day, a patient in CHC must receive a minimum of 8 hours of nursing care or nursing and aide care.

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Los Angeles Hospice Home Care Launches Scholarship Program for Aides

Hospice News

Los Angeles-based Hospice Home Care recently rolled out a scholarship program for hospice aides in a move towards building career pathways and improving retention. As with other health care workers, burnout has been a contributing factor. They also had high turnover rates, reaching 29.84% last year.

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Nurses’ Union Reaches Labor Agreement with PeaceHealth for Hospice, Home Health Workers

Hospice News

After more than a year of negotiations, the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) labor union has reached an agreement with PeaceHealth. In February, about 90 PeaceHealth home health and hospice participated in a strike between Feb. The nurses involved in the strike care for more than 500 patients.

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From the ER to home care: A HopeHealth cardiac nurse shares her journey

HopeHealth

In honor of Nurses Week, we spotlight Trish Diorio, cardiac nurse specialist for HopeHealth Visiting Nurse. The whole reason you go into nursing,” says Trish, “is to make a difference.”. The post From the ER to home care: A HopeHealth cardiac nurse shares her journey appeared first on HopeHealth.

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Home Care Nurse or In-Home Personal Caregiver?

Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

Home Care Nurse or In-Home Personal Caregiver? In today’s aging society, more seniors are choosing to age in place, favoring the familiarity and comfort of their own homes over the institutional setting of assisted living or nursing facilities.

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By the Bay Health to Merge with Mission Hospice & Home Care

Hospice News

By the Bay Health and Mission Hospice & Home Care recently signed a letter of intent to merge the two California-organizations. By the Bay Health hospice, palliative and pediatric care, as well as skilled nursing home health and grief support.

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5 tips to increase continuity of care in home care [free care plan worksheet]

AlayaCare

Increasing continuity of care in home care is an important step in providing quality service to your clients. It is one of the 3 ways to improve care management in home care that we covered in our blog recently. Download Care Plan Worksheet 1. Our [hospital] resubmissions have decreased by 65%.

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