New Alliances Between Home Care Industry & Hospitals Crucial as Boomers Age

America’s headed toward a “geritocracy,” says a home health care association regarding the aging of the massive boomer generation, and health care reform initiatives could forge “crucial” alliances between the home health care industry and hospitals to continue a substantial growth trajectory.  The Northwest Herald reports: [The] National Association for Home Care & Hospice has […]

Home Care Can Save Big Bucks for Medicare, Says Home Health Alliance

The cost of Medicare payments more than doubles after one hospital readmission, and home health care may be a way to combat those costs, The Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation (the Alliance), an organization comprised of home health care providers and organizations reports in its Clinically Appropriate and Cost-Effective Placement (CACEP) research project.  […]