How to improve communication for quality home healthcare
By
Chenjuan Ma, PhD, MSN
May 02, 2023
Effective communication among home care providers, including skilled home health providers (e.g., nurses, therapists) and home health aides, as well as family caregivers, has become critical in quality...
A sunny outlook for home care
By
Liza Berger
Apr 14, 2023
No rain in sight. If there was a weather forecast for home care for the foreseeable future, that might just be it, according to Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice.
Taking action to address pressing home care challenges
By
Stephen Vaccaro
Jim Rolla
Mar 30, 2023
A scarcity of home care workers since the pandemic plus historically low wages equals a serious problem. Not only are home care agencies struggling to fill their employee rosters, they’re facing an aging...
Home care Advocacy Day offers opportunity to tell your story
By
Liza Berger
Mar 24, 2023
Want to give your legislator a piece of your mind? You’ll have your chance next week, when the National Association for Home Care & Hospice holds its Advocacy Day in Washington, DC.
Private equity makes its move on home care
By
Liza Berger
Mar 03, 2023
Look out, home care. Private equity has its eyes on you. That was one of the messages of a recent report by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, a nonprofit watchdog group.
A tale of two transactions
By
Liza Berger
Feb 24, 2023
Two major deals made this a big week for healthcare dealmaking. The first was UnitedHealth Group’s acquisition of LHC Group for a whopping $5.4 billion. A second was Amazon’s purchase of healthcare...
Medicare Advantage: Better get used to it
By
Liza Berger
Feb 10, 2023
Now and then it takes a wake-up call to get us to change our perspective or behavior. It seems to me an alarm rang particularly loudly this week for home health operators and Medicare Advantage, thanks...
Let’s educate clients, families about what it means to age in place
By
Wayne Mitchell
Feb 09, 2023
As our population continues to age, our clients and their families often have a set of questions that need to be addressed in order to provide them with direction and comfort in the difficult time they...
Sign of the times: CMS is short-staffed too
By
Liza Berger
Jan 27, 2023
Home care providers struggling with staffing issues, take heart. You are not the only ones wracking your brains trying to find willing employees. We all learned this week that one of your bosses, the Centers...
Setting the record straight on home infusion therapy
By
Connie Sullivan
Jan 24, 2023
As a former home infusion pharmacist and the president and CEO of the National Home Infusion Association, I strongly disagree with both the premise and the assumptions arising from this small qualitative...