HIT Consultant

APRIL 22, 2024

This combined offering will provide significant benefits for both ShiftMed and Genesis HealthCare: Enhanced Services for Genesis: Under a seven-year exclusive agreement, ShiftMed will deliver staffing solutions to over 1,200 of Genesis’ Powerback Rehabilitation locations and more than 200 skilled nursing facilities.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Through its hospital-at-home program, Nascentia Health provides nursing, in-person and virtual provider visits, ECG monitoring, laboratory testing, some point-of-care testing and more. In total, the program had more than 100 patients this year. They use their own staff, they try to mobilize all of that,” she said.

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) published a critical report during the pandemic , finding that “the way the United States finances, delivers, and regulates care in nursing home settings is ineffective, inefficient, fragmented, and unsustainable.”

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

A home health nurse has pleaded guilty, in federal court in Boston, in relation to a $100 million home health care kickback scheme. Overall, the conspiracy was an attempt to defraud MassHealth and Medicare of at least $100 million. million in fake skilled nursing visits. Her sentencing is scheduled for Jan.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 12, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare “For 67 of the 100 sampled nursing homes, CMS did not accurately report on Care Compare 1 or more deficiencies that surveyors identified during yearly and complaint inspections. OIG randomly sampled 100 nursing homes from among 15,377 nursing homes nationwide.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Department of Veterans Affairs is permitted to fund 100% of the costs for a nursing home stay. Section 3 of the Elizabeth Dole Act would have bumped that number up to 100%, a measure Hoak and other advocates had been working on for years. “We The decision was a disappointing one for home-based care advocates.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 25, 2023

Its CEO, David Lester, joined the company in 2015, over 50 years after his grandparents bought their first nursing home in the ‘60s. For a long time, nursing homes were the focus of the business. For a long time, nursing homes were the focus of the business. It was a way to keep the nursing homes patients, if you will.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 17, 2024

For Shelly Sun, the founder and then-CEO of BrightStar Care, 100-hour work weeks in 2020 and 2021 became commonplace. Effective earlier this year, she is no longer the CEO of BrightStar Care, and instead the founder and executive chairwoman. Overall, the company employs more than 15,000 caregivers and 5,700 registered nurses.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Teri Ridge, RN, Clinical Operations Advisor, LeanTaaS Frontline nurses across the country remain in a state of constant crisis as they attempt to deliver patient care while facing tremendously stressful environments, untenable patient-to-nurse ratios, and frustrating process inefficiencies.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

MAY 11, 2022

In the past months, many hospitals and other health care providers have noted the steep rise in the cost of hiring nurses. Many providers saw double digit year-on-year growth of nurse wages. In large part, much of the additional cost was due to the rise of travelling nurses.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 5, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Every home-based care provider wants to recruit and retain better this year than they did last year. Investments made at Amedisys Amedisys had one of its strongest years in 2023, when it comes to organic growth within its nurse hiring program.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 11, 2022

Kaiser and Mayo have been supporters of the acute care at home model amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, with both health systems putting a combined $100 million toward Medically Home in May 2021. But not everyone has been pleased: Nurse unions criticized the strategy, saying it undermined their role and potentially endangering patients.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 6, 2024

Trent Smith is someone, regionally, that I believe is on the cusp of really changing how our nurses engage in documentation. Trent is attacking the core issue holding our industry back from having the “best” nursing job. Last month, HHCN talked to five leaders in the home care space. Home-based care is extremely personal and private.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Two-and-a-half years of relentless patient need, inadequate workforce, severe illness, and interpersonal dysfunction have left many to leave the field. While healthcare jobs have roughly returned to pre-pandemic levels, experts predict that overall nurse shortage will reach 1.1 Eric Ly, Co-Founder and CEO of KarmaCheck.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Minneapolis-based Allina Health, working with Flare Capital Partners, has launched a new company, Inbound Health, designed to help health systems and payers design and build hospital-at-home and home-based skilled nursing programs. WHY IT MATTERS. Much of the growth is being driven by large health systems like Allina Health.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 27, 2023

This includes nurse and clinician shortages, which persist across hospitals and health systems nationwide. About 100,000 nurses left the workforce during the pandemic, with over 600,000 reporting their intention to leave by 2027, citing stress and burnout as primary reasons. Engage your clinical workforce Ask nurses for their input.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Worse yet, more than 40% of Americans 65 years and older live alone. An even larger percentage of Americans live alone once they pass 80 years old. The percentage of Americans that can afford personal care has undoubtedly shrunk over the course of the last few years. The issue is that many of them cannot afford it.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Home-based care’s deal volume remained flat in the fourth quarter of 2022, ending a slow year overall for transactions. The quarter saw at least 24 completed transactions, right on par with Q3’s 25 deals, but was lower than previous years in the home-based care space, according to a report from M&A advisory firm Mertz Taggart.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 18, 2023

“As [Amedisys management] discussed the home health landscape beyond [near-term] labor and payor mix challenges, they noted their view that there’s scarcity in quality home health capacity and high level of interest among potential strategic acquirers to own scaled home nursing companies …,” Tanquilut indicated in a note.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 29, 2022

On one hand, telehealth usage skyrocketed over the last two years. Dombi said earlier this year. Health Recovery Solutions (HRS) – the telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) solutions company – has been helping home health providers deliver telehealth for years. It’s not an easy fix, either. The ROI of telehealth.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 13, 2021

In late March of last year, Frank Cutitta was admitted to a Boston-area hospital with COVID-19. He wouldn't walk out again until the Fourth of July, 100 days later. " Because his record had so much information in it, his nurses didn't initially realize he'd been approved to have ice chips, which he desperately wanted.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 23, 2023

What You Should Know: Nursa, a nationwide platform that exists to put a nurse at the bedside of every patient in need, today announced the completion of its executive leadership team following an $80 million Series B funding raise led by Drive Capital and joined by existing partners Pelion and Kickstart. million by the end of the year.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

– Vivalink has announced a new study of cardiac rehabilitation clinicians that reveals the current landscape of remote patient monitoring technology (RPM) in their field, with some pretty incredible results, including: – 65% of cardiac rehab clinicians started using RPM within the last 1-2 years. Did it work well for them?

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 30, 2024

She also lays out the steps SHC has taken to address hiring challenges in home-based care for 2024 and years to come. In the coming years, home care is expected to be one of the fastest-growing settings of care. What is your outlook on the future of skills development in the clinical health care workforce in the next 3-5 years?

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 3, 2022

As a Board-Certified Internist and Geriatrician with over 35 years of providing care in nursing facilities, this sentiment has guided me throughout my career. Our nursing facility industry is about to crumble. The nursing industry is being torn apart by the convergence of several major currents: 1. million to 1.35

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 30, 2023

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but education and awareness should not be limited to just one month of the year. This includes a 20-year career at Epic, a global healthcare systems provider. Thomas was instrumental in growing the company from under 100 employees with little market recognition to over 10,000 employees.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Even if you look at the last 20 years, there’s going to be less people entering the workforce. Even if you look at the last 20 years, there’s going to be less people entering the workforce. This article is sponsored by CareXM. This discussion took place on August 30, 2023 during the HHCN FUTURE Conference.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

What You Should Know: Bridges Health Partners LLC (Bridges) , a Clinically Integrated Network, and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield (Highmark) entered into a multi-year Value-Based Agreement for Highmark’s Commercial membership in Western Pennsylvania. Established in 2017 through a collaboration between Independence Health System, St.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) also released interim vaccine rules for companies with 100 or more employees on Thursday. Originally, the Biden-Harris administration called for all nursing homes to require staff vaccinations in order to receive Medicare and Medicaid funding. 5 of this year.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home-based care providers have faced many headwinds over the past few years. But uncertainty has also plagued providers, and there may be less of that this year. Last week, at Home Care 100 in Scottsdale, Arizona, I had the chance to catch up with over a dozen home-based care executives.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 5, 2022

Luke's knew would require additional clinical coverage. The provider organization realized through virtual care it could enable its clinicians to see patients much faster. "Another problem we had was with the number of solutions we were using," noted Jody McCloud Missmer, behavioral health network administrator, St. " MARKETPLACE.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Two-and-a-half years of relentless patient need, an inadequate workforce, severe illness, and interpersonal dysfunction have left many to leave the field. While healthcare jobs have roughly returned to pre-pandemic levels, experts predict that the overall nurse shortage will reach 1.1 Eric Ly, Co-Founder & CEO of KarmaCheck.

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Prevention Healthcare Nursing Hospitals 52

Home Health Care

JUNE 6, 2022

Galaxy’s CEO Yelena Sokolsky — a registered nurse with over 18 years of experience in home care — first realized the importance of home care when she had to take care of her parents and grandparents. From graduating with both a psychology and nursing degree, Sokolsky eventually made her way into the home care space.

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CHQ Healthcare

MAY 16, 2023

Over the past several years, there’s been a real awakening to the inequities in our world, and the need to address those things,” said Parity.Org president, Dina Schenk. It’s gratifying to see that the companies on this year’s ParityLIST are not letting up or losing focus.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 23, 2022

At Nurse Next Door, opening the door means the ‘front line to franchisee’ program. Essentially, the aim of the program is to make home care business ownership more accessible to caregivers and nurses. Nurse Next Door has recognized that these traits transfer really well to agency owners and to being a great leader.”.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It provides 120 million hours of care per year, 75% of which is done so in the home. On top of that, of medication-related hospital admissions in the United States, 33% to 69% are due to poor medication adherence at a cost of about $100 billion to the health care system each year. lower than those outside of the program.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 6, 2021

nursing shortage this year. The biggest area of labor dynamics that we’re all facing as a health care industry is, I believe, with the qualified nurses,” Proffitt said. The nursing pool of the workforce is one of the top challenges that … we’re seeing across all of health care.”.

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