Home Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Reflect back on this year in home-based care by revisiting 10 of HHCN’s most widely read stories. 22) Optum’s acquisition of LHC Group – another one of the largest home health providers in the country – was one of the top stories in 2022. It remained a top story in 2023, however, as the deal closed in February. Humana Inc.

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Vie Healthcare

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Episode Introduction Sue shares how creating a volunteer army transformed a struggling community hospital into a profitable, national award-winner, why the patient experience and the employee experience can’t be separated and reveals strategies that can move 20% in a patient satisfaction metric in 18 months. People caring for people.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

million jobs expected to open up in home-based care and senior living facilities by 2026, it’s more important than ever for providers to understand what attracts employees and what leads to dissatisfaction. How many of you are telling stories that align with those four categories — probably not a lot,” he said. It has meaning.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 23, 2021

The app allows Apple employees to log fitness goals, manage hypertension, and talk to clinicians and coaches at AC Wellness, the doctors' group that Apple works with. Both started as a limited primary care service offering targeting internal employees, presumably as a precursor to opening the offering to the public at some point.

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Bill Of Health

DECEMBER 28, 2023

By Bobby Stroup Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn’t magic , but there is value in telling a magical story to non-technical stakeholders to describe how we’ll govern this transformative technology. Let’s pick a story that’s already popular and one where heroes successfully overcame a dangerous technology. The books are great.

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Health Care Success

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Titled My Turn , the campaign tells the Encompass Health story from the caregiver’s perspective, one of the five key branding steps I highlight in this post. Start with your Employees. Start with researching your employees—what challenges are they having? Our employees were enthused because we motivated them.

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CHQ Healthcare

DECEMBER 7, 2021

These structured meetings include grounding exercises and help employees pause, connect to one another, release stress, and return home with a calmer mindset. How facilities can help: Main Line Health trained a team of employees to provide immediate psychological support to their peers if needed. Handling trauma. Feeling devalued.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

But one factor that can fly under the radar is employee tenure. We value long-tenured employees at every level of an organization. Employee tenure – both at the caregiver and back-office level – can be an indicator of a company’s stability, resilience and positive culture. That’s key for us,” he said. “We

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 18, 2024

Bringing this narrative into the national dialogue on healthcare highlights an opportunity for employers to affordably ensure employees have the security and certainty that they will be able to access and pay for care when they need it,” said Brian Whorley, Founder and CEO of Paytient.

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CHQ Healthcare

MAY 1, 2023

May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month , and each year CHG looks for opportunities to celebrate the heritage of our Asian and Pacific American employees. Employees also had an opportunity to give back by helping with repair and maintenance of the facilities. It’s difficult to understand what the people went through.” Apply today!

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Healthcare Success

JULY 5, 2023

She employs full-time social media employees and a marketing agency to manage her brand reputation, marketing strategy, and social media presence. Employee recruitment Sharing thought leadership pieces, announcements, events, and daily updates helps prospective employees evaluate your company culture.

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Healthcare Performance

APRIL 12, 2022

The story goes that Mr. Musk was visiting the Tesla Headquarters in Texas, when he encountered an individual waiting in the lobby. Another Tesla employee turns to Elon and says: “You just tipped the pizza guy two grand.”. I don’t know how this story started, or if it’s true. There’s two sides to every story.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2024

Anecdotally, the stories have been cropping up much more often. More than 2,300 University of Michigan Medicine health care workers joined the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), too, with many of them being home care workers. Independent contractors cannot be organized, but employees can. How much so?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Among nine projects I evaluated, I’ll share one with you here which is an exemplar of how a diverse group of nurses and staff from Duke University Health System came together to address, in their words, The Story of Workplace Violence.

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Bill Of Health

MARCH 8, 2022

Workplaces are, by and large, no longer safe for employees who are high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19. High-risk employees still need their co-workers to wear masks. The Totenberg story quickly began to shift. By Katherine Macfarlane. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In University of Alabama v.

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CHQ Healthcare

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The CHG Healthcare story began in 1979 when a University of Utah physician developed the concept of locum tenens (traveling physicians) as a way to deliver much-needed medical care to rural areas across the country. Flexible Work Options Flexibility at work isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 22, 2024

This policy would also allow states to take into account the unique experiences that small home care providers and providers in rural areas face while ensuring their employees receive their fair share of Medicaid payments and continued training as well as the delivery of quality care,” the White House statement said.

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GoMoHealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Personal stories of recovery can humanize the experience, showing that with proper support, individuals can overcome addiction and lead fulfilling lives. Employers must create a psychologically safe environment where employees feel empowered and comfortable to seek help to address behavioral health challenges including SUD.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 13, 2023

This data uncovers useful themes and trends across interactions between patients and providers that are tracked by metrics focused on conversation topics, sentiment, and other reporting to help establish a ‘big picture’ story. Equip employees with new training, call scripts and FAQs to deliver on your brand promise.

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Home Health Care

MAY 15, 2023

The top two considerations providers should be aware of are compensation and whether or not a provider will give employees the tools and processes they need to do their jobs effectively. Messaging and getting ahead of FAQs can be a way to attract employees. Proactively addressing this is key,” Johnston said.

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Home Health Care

MAY 26, 2023

Overall, its network includes 16,500 employees and 522 care centers across 37 states and the District of Columbia. We see these two companies as united by a focus in home health, an area that we believe is a secular growth story as value-based care increasingly prioritizes low-cost sites of care.”

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Healthcare Success

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Employee candidates Healthcare organizations continue to feel the effects of the Great Resignation. This goes a bit deeper into offering expanded employee perks and benefits. Attract more patients and build trust with a robust offering of patient reviews, testimonials, and success stories.

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Healthcare Performance

AUGUST 11, 2022

Employees do not need to know what HIPAA stands for. Honestly, I’m not even concerned if employees spell it: HIPPA instead of HIPAA. If an employee spells it HIPPA but understands what may be potential privacy risks, training is successful. It is more memorable, which makes it a much more effective.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 17, 2023

increase in ARR in 2022 and 64 new employees since July 2021, many of whom joined product innovation and sales departments. – The investment comes after a significant year of growth for Authenticx, which saw a 2.5x

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2024

Traditional methods that relied on user stories, prototype testing and customer research offered limited control over product development outcomes, often leaving success to multiple iterations of feasibility, testing and field assessment. This approach will serve as the blueprint for developing truly disruptive medical technology.

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CHQ Healthcare

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It’s also the perfect time to share locum tenens horror stories. Here are a few of our favorite locum tenens horror stories along with ways you can prevent them from haunting your doorstep! That was the first big horror story that made me stop and say, ‘What does the background check look like? Had they practiced somewhere else?

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In the world of home health care, one of the biggest stories earlier this year was UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), and its subsidiary Optum, acquiring industry giant LHC Group in a $5.4 Really starting with the plans who are already believers — instead of converting them.” billion deal.

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Etactics

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It’s not the PHI of their own employees. We are not doing this to protect our employees’ PHI but for the PHI of our clients’ patients. This doesn’t mean that when it comes to employees’ protected health information we throw all the safety precautions out the window. This can be carried out by an employer or employee.

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Etactics

AUGUST 10, 2021

Some of these were HIPAA violations from employees posting a patient’s protected health information (PHI) the social web. In some cases, employees don’t realize that what they’re posting is a HIPAA violation. Yet employees still share patient information. The employee posted the photo without permission. Learn more.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Some stories are able to make a big splash instantly, while some are more of a slow burn, taking time to attract the attention of readers. These stories are diverse in topic matter, style and structure. Four franchisees sat down with HHCN to tell us their stories in part 1 of a two-part series.

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Healthcare Performance

JANUARY 10, 2023

You know where I’m going with these oral hygiene horror stories. How long have employee passwords been left up on post-it notes for visitors to see? What happens if we skip our weekly compliance rounding, when we walk the halls and interact with employees? How are your compliance habits? Compliance is a routine.

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Baird Group

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

That story, short as it was, sent an important message about compassion and the love between a parent and child. What if, instead of sharing this personal story, I had quoted statistics about patient and family centered care? Unite Employees through Storytelling. Millions of stories are created each day.

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KHN

JULY 9, 2021

Hours after her letter was published in September 2017, officials at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth, Maine, fired her , citing a policy that no employee may give information to the news media without the direct involvement of the media office. The case applies to both unionized and non-unionized employees, legal experts say.

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Health Business Group

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

He was an early employee of Cerner and spent 8 years at Inovalon building products and helping the company go public before taking over at Adhere. In his spare time he works with Operation Song in Nashville, helping military families tell their stories through songwriting. He also walks many miles a day and listens to audio books.

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CHQ Healthcare

MAY 25, 2023

At CHG, these are what employee inclusion groups (EIGs) are all about. But now she has fully embraced the responsibility of being the voice of the community — both to the company’s leadership and for LGBTQIA+ employees and allies. All of that really helps our community a bunch.”

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Baird Group

AUGUST 30, 2022

During a focus group, employees expressed that strict adherence to policy diminishes patient-centered experiences. They shared a story of a mother and child who traveled two hours for an appointment for the child. Applying Policies and Procedures in the Real World. The policy is to turn away patients who are ten minutes late.

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Etactics

MARCH 15, 2024

This includes all forms of information such as key business processes, IT assets, and employee or customer information. Most if not all of us have probably heard a story about a huge corporation that experienced a data breach at some point. This means making your employees aware of them. It’s all a learning process.

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