Recruiting and retention woes are the obvious, above-the-surface topics when it comes to home-based care providers’ staffing. But the below-surface trends could be just as important, and those are becoming apparent. For instance, home health providers are having to manage increased PTO usage and decreased productivity from workers. In general, the profile of a worker […]
Changing industry dynamics might be slowing home health care’s labor arbitrage. Prior to 2020, a major workforce priority for several home health providers was making sure their clinicians were “operating at the top of their license.” Generally, the belief was that operators could stretch staffing capacity and reduce visit costs by shifting certain duties from […]
As a self-described data junkie, Stephen Tweed has lived by many mantras throughout his career in home care. When talking with Home Health Care News this week about how home care agencies can use and leverage data in order to grow, one of those mantras came to mind. “What gets measured, gets managed,” Tweed, the […]
A former hospital nurse and now the CEO of Healing Hands Healthcare, Summer Napier is all about home health innovation. That’s why – since opening in 2016 – the Texas-based Healing Hands has launched a multi-faceted hospital-at-home initiative and a home-based oncology care program. It’s also why Healing Hands is so bullish on forward-thinking legislation […]
Brent Korte was the chief home care officer at the Washington-based EvergreenHealth Home Care for more than eight years. During that time, it went all the way from a home health agency that was a financial drag on a hospital system to the point where it was an integral part of it. Now, Korte is […]
Home health stakeholders – and many others – recently had the opportunity to weigh in on the way Medicare Advantage (MA) is currently administered by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and Moving Health Home are among the two groups that answered CMS’ […]
Last December, I wrote about the “retail giants ready to disrupt home-based care.” Though confident in my hypothesis that these larger companies – CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT) – were going to enter further into the home-based care space, I was not under the […]
For other home-based care providers, the Minnesota-based Lifespark can offer lessons in taking on risk to get to the “apex-predator level,” as its CEO Joel Theisen would say. At the same time, the company is also looking outward to learn from others as it gets ready for a nationwide expansion. That’s why the provider – […]
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) announced that it had agreed to acquire Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY) Monday. Tuesday morning, the two companies laid out the rationale. Perhaps the most of note, however, was CVS’ clear and consistent commitment to home health care delivery moving forward. “By acquiring Signify’s home health platform, we gain a foundation for […]
The power of good home-based care is something Dr. Sun Jones has first-hand experience with. Jones, a family nurse practitioner for over 21 years and a professor at the University of Phoenix, said the personal care her 91-year-old mother receives at home has changed the way her mom is able to live. “She has a […]
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