In-home booster preparations underway at some home care agencies
By
Diane Eastabrook
Sep 24, 2021
Even before another federal agency’s panel approved booster shots for seniors, the wheels were in motion at some home care companies to get COVID-19 boosters into the arms of their clients.
Home care firms urged to take active role in advancing home modifications
By
Diane Eastabrook
Apr 27, 2021
Home modifications — from grab bars to ramps — can go a long way toward keeping seniors healthy and remaining in their homes, and reducing the number of home care workers’ injuries.
Home care wheelers and dealers, start your engines!
By
Liza Berger
Apr 23, 2021
The lackluster days of M&A activity in home care appear to be a distant memory.
Amedisys CEO predicts sequestration could help solve labor shortage
By
Diane Eastabrook
Aug 06, 2021
Amedisys is betting the end of government stimulus from the pandemic will help solve the dearth of home care and hospice workers by early next year.
Telehealth supports hospice and palliative care providers, patients and caregivers
By
Robert Crook, M.D.
Terri Maxwell, Ph.D.
Jun 22, 2021
Rather than viewing telehealth as a compromise on palliative and hospice care for the seriously ill, clinicians should see this as an option that is safer as it reduces exposure. Many individuals also...
San Francisco Bay area hospice expands
By
Diane Eastabrook
May 11, 2021
ANX Holding, a fast-growing home care provider in the San Francisco Bay area, is expanding its hospice division
Bayada Home Health Care partners with VCU on new company
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jun 08, 2021
Bayada Home Health Care, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit home healthcare providers, is teaming up with Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) to bring home healthcare and hospice to Richmond, VA.
Florida regulators double the number of approvals for hospice programs
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jun 24, 2021
Eight new hospice programs could be coming to Florida. That is twice as many as state regulators proposed earlier this year.
HHS stepping up enforcement of patient rights, lawyer cautions
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jun 10, 2021
Home care and hospice providers received a warning Wednesday that the Department of Health of Human Services (HHS) is cracking down on rules covering patient privacy and access to health records.
Purchase of VNA may kick off nonprofit home care buying spree for Amedisys
By
Diane Eastabrook
May 12, 2021
Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) may be the first of many nonprofit home healthcare and hospice companies Amedisys acquires.