AlayaCare

JUNE 28, 2022

The caregiver employment crisis has the home care industry on its toes looking for solutions to employee churn. In 2021, poorly managed care plans were in the top 10 complaints from care providers and nurses in home care organizations, according to Home Care Pulse.

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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. In 2021, poorly managed care plans were in the top 10 complaints from care providers and nurses in home care organizations, according to Home Care Pulse.

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AlayaCare

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Demand for home infusion pharmacy services is booming, with several more years of sustained growth forecasted. This is a landmark opportunity for the industry to continue its transformation to incorporate more Hospital-at-Home care. We spoke to our leading enterprise-level customers to get their insights.

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AlayaCare

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Demand for home infusion pharmacy services is booming, with several more years of sustained growth forecasted. This is a landmark opportunity for the industry to continue its transformation to incorporate more Hospital-at-Home care. Improving efficiency with real-time field visibility.

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Comfort Home Care

MAY 15, 2022

Geraldine (Gerri) Flowers assumes the role as Chief Executive Officer of Comfort Home Care, effective May 9, 2022. She has played a significant role, spanning patient care, regulatory compliance, management, and most notably COVID prevention and treatment implementation and coordination strategies. ROCKVILLE, Md.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 10, 2023

Improving Outcomes in Home Care Research shows that home care patients who speak a language other than English are at a higher risk for readmission to the hospital. The patients spoke Spanish, Korean, Chinese, or Russian as their primary language.

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Traditions Health

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Traditions Health of Waxahachie awarded Home Care Accreditation from The Joint Commission Traditions Health Hospice of Waxahachie has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for Home Care Accreditation by demonstrating continuous compliance with its performance standards.

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AlayaCare

MARCH 9, 2020

Home care is about to change for the better in Ontario and its 14 million residents – at least 2.5 The provincial government recently announced new legislation that would modernize the delivery of home and community care in Ontario – a move we wholeheartedly endorse and look forward to serving as a partner to the Ministry of Health.

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AlayaCare

APRIL 11, 2019

In the ever-changing home care industry, there are innumerable variables that agencies must strategically consider – as well as those that are hard to predict but still need to be managed carefully. The implications on the demand for home care services are clear. As we’ve explored in previous articles , 15 percent of U.S.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Issues of fraud in the hospice industry echo events that previously affected the home health space, and providers can learn from that prior experience. This is according to Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), who spoke Thursday in a Relias webinar.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 17, 2018

Acquisition improves AlayaCare’s ability to help Ontario home and community care agencies focus on delivering quality patient care TORONTO, June 18, 2018: AlayaCare, an award-winning, end-to-end software platform for home and community care, today announced the acquisition of Canesto Systems Inc.,

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AlayaCare

JUNE 19, 2023

Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) is a crucial aspect of managing home care agencies, as it directly affects financial sustainability and the ability to provide high-quality patient care. A streamlined workflow increases efficiency, job satisfaction, reduces errors, and provides better quality of care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Compassion provides us with a high-quality hospice operation in East Texas, where New Day currently has significant market share in both personal care and skilled care services,” New Day Chief Development Officer Matthew Griffith said in a statement. The following year, the company secured $55.5 The company’s CEO G.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

As those problems proliferate, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), LeadingAge and the National Partnership for Hospice and Healthcare Innovation (NPHI) have been speaking out not only individually, but collectively.

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Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2023

“Good hospices know their own systems’ capabilities and requirements, and seek partners who understand and can comply with those requirements while enhancing the delivery of patient care,” Natarajan told Hospice News in an email. The routine home care telehealth waiver ended with the PHE.

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AT Home Care & Hospice

APRIL 20, 2024

Celebrating Interprofessional Collaboration: Thank you for Partnering in Patient Care This National Interprofessional Healthcare Month, AT Home Care extends our sincere gratitude to our valued referral partners. Your dedication to providing exceptional care for your patients inspires us.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

The intensity of GIP care often includes higher-cost services such as increased medication management, 24/7 clinical staffing assistance and other operational expenses. It’s almost as if two pieces aren’t talking to each other on inpatient care,” Gurian said. Because the difference there is really having a chilling effect.”

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2024

A 2015 study analysis published in the journal BMC Public Health found that nearly two-thirds of the female home care workforce experiences some type of workplace violence annually. More than half (51.5%) of home care workers overall have experienced verbal aggression, while 24.7%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

The increased focus on hospice billing and claims has added to the mix of financial pressures that impact providers, according to Zaundra Ellis, vice president of hospice professional services at the health care software provider Axxess. Ensuring that clinical documentation is complete and accurate is also essential.

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AlayaCare

APRIL 18, 2023

In developing Visit Optimizer, the team was tasked to create an application that automates placing care givers with vacant client visits, remove manual guesswork in scheduling, and reduce mileage, travel time and wait times to improve patient experience, fostering employee satisfaction.

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Hospice News

JULY 20, 2023

Hospices that can demonstrate the ability to financially and operationally weather changes in an evolving reimbursement climate have a leg up on competitors in the value-based landscape, Calcutt said at the National Association of Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC) Financial Management Conference in New Orleans.

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Hospice News

APRIL 28, 2023

As they move into this new sphere, hospices may be able to glean some important lessons from home health agencies. For one, they should start preparing now, according to National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President Bill Dombi. Don’t wait for the day before it starts to get yourself ready for it.

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Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2023

These factors mean that hospice leaders will need a strong grasp on data collection and analysis, according to Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). “As The nitty gritty details of data management matter when it comes to ensuring both a healthy bottom line and quality patient care.

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

JUNE 26, 2023

Meet Lisa Shenkman Human Resources – Recruiting/On Boarding Specialist Please join us in welcoming Lisa Shenkman to the Freedom Home Care team! Before joining Freedom Home Care, Lisa worked in the industry as a Private Duty Staffing Coordinator for 15 years. This natural progression of her career is so rewarding!

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Hospice News

AUGUST 24, 2023

Hospice regulation has taken a winding path in recent years, representing both a push and pull in terms of quality hospice care delivery, according to William Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). They look at current and past improper payments, and work in the past and future.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 27, 2023

The organization is an affiliate of the Home Care and Hospice Association of Colorado, a group of nonprofit providers that care for patients and families across 64 counties in the state. Her experience and dedication to quality patient care will uphold the standards of service to our hospice patients and their families.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2023

I am passionate about patient care and giving Amedisys’ caregivers the tools and support needed to focus on what they do best,” Ashworth said in statement. “I Kusserow led Amedisys between 2014 and the first quarter of 2022, when he retired as CEO but stayed on as chairman.

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Hospice News

JUNE 15, 2022

An overwhelming majority of hospice providers have seen costs of patient care rise 3% to 10% since 2019, and many expect further increases next year. Medicare covers close to 90% of hospice organizations’ patient care revenue. This is prompting calls for Medicare to reconsider proposed 2023 reimbursement rates. .

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

MAY 16, 2022

Nurses identify and protect the needs of the individual, whether that means they are educating the public about critical health issues or administering medicine as a part of in-home care or personalized elder care. The post What Nurses Do For Us appeared first on Freedom Home Care.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2023

“The inherent broadness of the space does make it more difficult to define certain metrics and regulatory scaffolding,” Davis Baird, director of governmental affairs for hospice at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 20, 2023

Eden Health is a subsidiary of Washington-based EmpRes Healthcare, which provides management and consulting services to rehabilitation and post-acute care centers, assisted and independent living communities and home health, home care, palliative care and hospice agencies in nine Western states.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2023

The end of the PHE should not be the last word on possible extensions of additional waivers, according to Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC). “[The Some states also have enacted laws extending telehealth in their Medicaid programs.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

“The ideas underpinning all of this is that when patients’ needs are really complex, everyone should have access to a specialty team of palliative care specialists in whatever setting they’re receiving care,” Bowman said at the C-TAC-CAPC Leadership Summit in Washington D.C. “We

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2023

Now, many operators are contracting with managed care plans for other service lines, such as palliative care, or they may be participating in the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model. Everyone needs access to the home and what it provides. This means they will be looking closely at providers’ quality data.

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Latest acquisition enhances AlayaCare’s mission to bridge the gap between home health and home care through more interoperable, best-of-breed solutions across the continuum. This is a major development in AlayaCare’s commitment to make in-home care a more connected and integrated part of the healthcare continuum.

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Hospice News

JUNE 6, 2023

Currently, people in Forks who need in-home care for their chronic conditions rely on a home health company based in the town of Port Angeles, more than 50 miles away. Another caregiving agency in the area serves patients on Medicaid or Medicare, but their availability is limited.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2022

Compared to other health care settings, hospices lack diversity in revenue streams such as private insurers and Medicaid funding. Through the hospice benefit, Medicare covers nearly 90% of a provider’s patient care revenue. Hospice and home care sector multiples have reached record highs in recent years.

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