Falls prevention in home health: How to make a difference for your business and patients
By
Jennifer Burks
Sep 23, 2021
September is National Falls Prevention Month and an excellent opportunity for home-based healthcare professionals to examine their current falls prevention programs.
First they came for skilled care …
By
John O'Connor
Apr 29, 2021
Did you hear that Humana will pay $5.7 billion to wrest control of Kindred at Home? Of course you didn’t. That’s a home care issue, not senior living. It’s hardly the kind of news that might affect...
Accelerate your home health agency’s growth: Top 3 referral targeting strategies
By
Ashton Harrison
Apr 22, 2021
For home health organizations, growing and strengthening your referral network is an important component to operational success. The pandemic brought on many new challenges for engaging with referral sources,...
3 ways to increase referrals and differentiate your home health organization
By
Bill Miller
Hope Wormuth
Jun 08, 2021
With advances in technology and data analytics, it’s time for the industry to put science at the forefront of the referral process.
With total purchase of Kindred at Home, Humana dominates home health arena
By
Liza Berger
Apr 30, 2021
Humana’s latest — and, literally, greatest — purchase will change the home health scene.
Telehealth: The new frontier
By
Liza Berger
Mar 19, 2021
Crises have the unique power to both unearth long-simmering problems and unmask raw potential. I think it’s fair to say that the COVID-19 pandemic (an indisputable crisis) has managed to do both.
Here’s how COVID-19 affected U.S. online searches, trends and behavior in the senior care industry
By
Karina Tama-Rutigliano
Sep 28, 2021
The data shows that users were looking more for home care services versus assisted living facilities and nursing homes, potentially due to concern about COVID-19. Research also shows that consumers are...
Why value-based care will work in the home
By
Cheri Rodgers
Jun 15, 2021
As the delivery of home-based care has become increasingly sophisticated, the home is the central point in the coordination of whole-patient care.
An acute interest in home care
By
Liza Berger
Jul 09, 2021
The tea leaves seem to be suggesting that acute home care services may eventually overtake the traditional service model.