As home-based care patients become more complex, providers are finding ways to ensure that clinicians don’t feel alone. Specifically, providers have started to use data to solve those challenges, especially through decision support tools that improve work patterns. “These patients, when in the hospital, were on a floor with every specialist and every diagnostic 48 […]
VNA Health Group
June is upon us. The year is nearly halfway gone, and since the turn of the calendar, there have been a lot of learnings on where the home health industry currently sits — and where it may be headed. But everything will be reset in the next month when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid […]
Dr. Steve Landers to leave VNA Health Group A very well known face in home health care is leaving the industry for a new leadership position. Dr. Steve Landers, the CEO of the Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) Health Group, is taking the helm at Hebrew SeniorLife, a Harvard Medical School-affiliated senior living provider that is […]
During the last week of March, hundreds of stakeholders vied on behalf of home-based care in Washington, D.C., either physically or through Zoom. Personal home care provider and advocate voices did so with an excitement for the future, fresh off the high of the president mentioning multiple times in a month. Conversely, home health care’s […]
Now that the final payment rule for the home health care industry is officially out, providers and advocates will take the long-awaited next step. For advocates, that will mean continuing legislation efforts. Although the final rule includes a 0.7% aggregate payment bump for home health agencies, behavioral adjustment cuts are still being implemented. That’s a […]
Home health providers have delved into different service lines during COVID-19. Among those are high-acuity care, such as hospital-at-home and SNF-at-home programs, palliative care and respite care. But one set of services, in particular, is beginning to make more sense for home health providers to offer: behavioral health. Strategically, expanding into behavioral health makes sense […]
As more home health providers move into the value-based care space, these organizations are engaging on multiple fronts in order to ensure success. Providers such as VNA Health Group and AccentCare Inc., in particular, exemplify the moves companies are making to support their value-based care strategies. In its broadest definition, value-based care means outcomes over […]
Policy concerns in home-based care are considered timely and critical for those in the industry. The issue is, unfortunately, they aren’t always viewed in that light by outsiders and lawmakers in Washington, D.C. Among those concerns are the extension of the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver, adequate reimbursement for telehealth and the Choose Home […]
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Monday that it is increasing the Medicare payment amount for administering the COVID-19 vaccine. That could lift the home health organizations that have been able to play a role in vaccinating homebound seniors throughout their communities. Not all in-home care operators have been able to […]
The seven-day average for new COVID-19 cases hit 68,767 on Sunday, shattering the previous high set in July. Meanwhile, Friday and Saturday took over as the two highest days for new cases since the pandemic began. Despite mitigation efforts and progress on rapid testing, the U.S. is firmly in the middle of a third surge, […]
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