Home Care Franchises Winning the Sales Game

Jiffy Lube, Motel 6, Great Clips and Culver’s. These are just a few of the U.S. franchise giants that Home Instead Senior Care outsold in 2018. That’s according to the latest Top 200+ ranking from Franchise Times, an annual compilation of top-selling franchises based on systemwide sales. Other home care franchises winning the sales game […]

Disrupt Podcast #26: Jennifer Sheets, President & CEO of Interim HealthCare

The 26th episode of our podcast, Disrupt, is now available! Interim HealthCare — one of the oldest home-based care franchise models around — is headed in a brand new direction. President and CEO Jennifer Sheets is leading the way. After joining Interim in early 2019, Sheets is now steering Interim toward its new HomeLife Enrichment […]

Why Daily Pay Is Home Care’s ‘Flavor of the Day’

Preparing for the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) and other regulatory hurdles has largely taken center stage in the home health care world. But when it comes to at-home care operations outside of the Medicare environment, workforce challenges remain top of mind for many executives. That group includes the leaders of Right at Home, Interim HealthCare […]

September Conference: C-Suite Speaker Preview

Join the ConversationSeptember 18 Home Health Care News is hosting its third annual HHCN Summit on Wednesday, September 18 in downtown Chicago at Convene. Buy your ticket for the conference that will bring together over 300 professionals in home health, private duty, hospice and palliative care for a full day of exclusive, dynamic content and […]

Hyper-Focused Sales and Marketing Strategies Help At-Home Care Providers Boost Business

As the health care industry continues to recognize the value of non-medical home care services, a growing number of providers are offering both medical and non-medical services. Agencies that offer the continuum of care can benefit from dividing their sales team by service, industry leaders say. Executives shared that view and other winning sales and […]

Home Health Agencies Ramp Up Social Media Recruiting Efforts

Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other social media channels are quickly becoming more important tools for recruiting home care workers. That means agencies need to start building their online brand now to stay competitive, Hireology CEO Adam Robinson told Home Health Care News. Hireology is a talent-technology platform that provides candidate marketing and recruitment CRM services […]

Interim’s New CEO Doubles Down on Population Health, Specialized Care Lines

Since taking over as CEO of Interim HealthCare in January, Jennifer Sheets hasn’t spent much time in the office. Instead, she’s been on the ground, averaging three states per week on a tour of Interim franchise locations across the country. The former chief clinical officer and senior executive of clinical operations, innovation, education and quality […]

Communication Breakdown: 60% of Home Health Workers Lack Adequate Information From Hospitals

As the U.S. health care system shifts towards value-based care, financial incentives are encouraging hospitals to work with home health organizations to improve patient outcomes. But despite the push, 60% of home health workers say they lack adequate patient information from hospitals to inform care, often leaving patients unprepared for treatment. That’s according to a […]

Why Upskilling Caregivers Can Improve Patient Care, Retention

As the demand for home-based care services continues to soar, so does the industry’s shortage of workers, with as many as 7.8 million caregiving positions projected to sit unfilled by 2026. The multimillion-dollar question for agencies remains how to survive the staffing crisis, which industry leaders have identified as the No. 1 challenge within home-based […]