Amazon Care reportedly to launch telehealth offering in all 50 states
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Joe Jancsurak
Mar 18, 2021
Amazon’s app-based healthcare service for employees, Amazon Care, soon will launch throughout the country, according to a Healthcare IT News report.
Home care workers should be vaccination priority, Sloan tells Biden’s COVID team
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Joe Jancsurak
Jan 15, 2021
Vaccinating healthcare workers who work in home- or community based-settings but are not included in the Pharmacy Partnership Program for Long-Term Care “should be of the utmost priority,” LeadingAge...
Home care remains likely post-acute care destination: report
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Joe Jancsurak
Oct 16, 2020
For people who received post-acute care instructions upon hospital discharge in the first quarter, skilled nursing facilities were the most likely referral destination, at 21.3%, followed very closely...
Indiana aims to improve access to home care for aging Hoosiers
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Joe Jancsurak
Jan 26, 2021
Indiana officials looking forward to making changes to the state’s managed care system say they want to speed up the eligibility process for home-based care and build up the necessary workforce. While...
New at-home, rapid COVID-19 test service offers another ‘critical resource,’ group says
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Joe Jancsurak
Jan 25, 2021
Ready, an on-demand healthcare service, disclosed on Friday its in-home rapid COVID-19 testing, which provides results in 15 minutes or less. How it works? The company sends a healthcare professional,...
Home care briefs for Wednesday, Jan. 20
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Joe Jancsurak
Jan 20, 2021
Vermont medical center to offer COVID-19 home care … Home-based remote patient monitoring kit enables care providers to track vital signs and receive deterioration alerts …Pennant Group adds Arizona...
Legislation would provide increased funding for HCBS, worker benefits
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Joe Jancsurak
Dec 09, 2020
Funding for home- and community-based services would increase under legislation introduced Monday by Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), ranking member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging.
Aging services leaders urge Biden administration to prioritize homebound seniors for vaccines
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Joe Jancsurak
Mar 12, 2021
Four leading aging services organizations this week pressed the Biden administration to prioritize certain vulnerable older Americans, such as homebound seniors and home health care workers, in the vaccination...
Decades old LTC policies hold $800B in benefit value: report
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Joe Jancsurak
Jan 14, 2021
The time is right for state policymakers to adopt policy and regulatory approaches to support the retention of benefit value in long-term care insurance policies. Doing so would help protect the financial...
Home care hoping to receive portion of latest federal relief payout
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Joe Jancsurak
Dec 18, 2020
The Department of Health and Human Services’ disclosed on Tuesday that it is increasing Phase 3 Provider Relief Funding by $4.5 billion to $24.5 billion. This served as welcome news to many healthcare...