Encompass Health’s 2020 4Q profits rise as home health revenue drops
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Joe Jancsurak
Feb 01, 2021
A 2.5% bump in fourth-quarter net operating revenues helped boost profits for Encompass Health Corp., one of the country’s largest home health providers, to $86 million in the quarter from $67.6 million...
GAO report calls for greater enforcement of OSHA’s COVID-19 standards
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Joe Jancsurak
Jan 29, 2021
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) may be paying closer attention to home care businesses following a governmental COVID-19 report released Thursday.
Virginia’s home care workers at risk without Medicaid rate increase, lawmakers and providers say
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Joe Jancsurak
Jan 27, 2021
A minimum wage hike might sound like a great step for home care. But unless Medicaid reimbursement rises as well, it puts home care agencies in a difficult position. That is what two Virginia state lawmakers...
Study: COVID-19-related ‘cocooning’ worsens well-being of seniors
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Joe Jancsurak
Jan 27, 2021
Cocooning, the practice of staying home and avoiding social interaction, is a natural reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, it may be detrimental to the physical and mental health of seniors...
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,...
Minnesota home care workers to receive a 15% raise
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Joe Jancsurak
Jan 20, 2021
More than 20,000 Minnesota home care workers who are members of the Service Employees International Union will, over the next two weeks, vote on a tentative contract that increases base pay by $2 an hour,...
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...
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 could help reform long-term care system, aging expert says
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Joe Jancsurak
Jan 15, 2021
Extending home care services may be one way to reform the long-term care system, according to Nora Super, senior director of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging.