Nashville home healthcare companies announce merger
By
Joe Jancsurak
Nov 24, 2020
WholeCare and LightWay, both Nashville, TN-based home healthcare providers, are merging under the WholeCare brand, with LightWay Founder Michael Jacques serving as CEO. The newly merged company will have...
Digital delivery becoming new norm for home health agencies: survey
By
Joe Jancsurak
Nov 16, 2020
More than half of the home health agency respondents to a recent survey said the biggest pandemic-related change to their business models has been converting to digital delivery of services, and that this...
Telehealth program focuses on COVID-positive patients discharged from hospitals
By
Joe Jancsurak
Nov 13, 2020
COVID-positive patients at some Texas hospitals now can be treated and monitored at home throughout their recoveries as part of a program through Dallas-based TheraCare Home Health, part of the Cantex...
Heart failure training increases home care worker job satisfaction: Cornell study
By
Joe Jancsurak
Nov 12, 2020
Home care workers who have been trained in heart failure are more satisfied with their jobs and feel more prepared and confident working with heart failure patients, according to new cross-campus research...
70 percent of long-term care claims begin with home care
By
Joe Jancsurak
Nov 11, 2020
Seventy percent of 2019 long-term care insurance policy claimants received initial benefit payments for care at home, according to the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance. That 70% represents...
Home care briefs for Friday, Nov. 6
Nov 06, 2020
Sen. Tester pushes VA for more PPE … The meaning of smart aging for older adults and care providers … HCA recognizes 30 aides, nurses and therapists as Home Care Heroes
Home care workers faced 5 challenges early in pandemic: JAMA
By
Joe Jancsurak
Nov 04, 2020
Five major themes emerged when researchers from several New York institutions conducted a qualitative study of 33 home healthcare workers employed by 24 home care agencies to see to what extent home healthcare...
CMS releases toolkit to speed state efforts to move to home-based services
By
Joe Jancsurak
Nov 03, 2020
A toolkit from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, released Monday, is meant to help states accelerate the shift to more home- and community-based services for eligible Medicaid beneficiaries.
Partnership to provide home-delivered meals to Medicare Advantage members
By
Joe Jancsurak
Oct 23, 2020
InComm Payments, a global payments technology company, announced this week a new partnership with Mom’s Meals, a PurFoods company. InComm Payments will offer Medicare Advantage health plans the option...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced the addition of 11 new services to the Medicare telehealth services list, which now totals 144.