Train to Retain: How to Build a Strategy Around Training

Recruitment and retention pose formidable challenges for home-based care operations, and every aspect of the employee experience — from onboarding to career pathing — offers new opportunities to mitigate the impact of today’s staffing crisis. Training is a key focal point, and with the pervasive integration of innovative technology across the industry, many providers are […]

Hindered By The Labor Environment, Aveanna’s Home Health Segment Struggles Continue

The home health and hospice segments of Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: AVAH) continue to struggle. Nevertheless, company leaders strongly believe in those segments’ long-term value proposition. “Our home health and hospice platform, which is primed for growth, is dedicated to creating value through effective operational management and the delivery of exceptional patient care,” Matt […]

Aveanna CFO David Afshar To Resign

Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: AVAH) CFO David Afshar is resigning, the company announced Thursday. Afshar — who is also Aveanna’s principal accounting officer and principal financial officer — will exit officially on July 7. He is pursuing other opportunities and the move is not due to any disagreements with Aveanna management, policies or practices, […]

Aveanna Leaders On Finding The ‘Right Payers’ To Work With

Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: AVAH) hopes to double the amount of preferred payers it is in business with in 2023. It also defined what a preferred payer was, from its leaders’ eyes. “Payers that support value-based care by offering us an above-market reimbursement rate and value-based payments in exchange for proven savings,” Aveanna CEO […]

Top Home Health Trends For 2023

Home health care’s 2022 was dimmed by the dark cloud of Medicare rate cuts. That cloud still hangs overhead in 2023. To weather the storm, providers are scrambling to find answers to persistent problems, namely staffing shortages. At the same time, they’re renegotiating arrangements with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and pivoting from certain service lines […]

4 Big Questions For Home Health, Home Care In 2023

Home health and home care operators grappled with numerous challenges in 2022 that impacted their businesses, from COVID-19 cases spiking due to the Omicron variant in the first quarter to labor pressures persisting throughout the year. For many providers, those headwinds turned their attention to maintaining growth, fine-tuning existing operations and avoiding loss, with service-line […]