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2024 Executive Forecast: What 9 Home Care Leaders Expect Next Year

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While home care providers are working to mitigate headwinds – such as the rising cost of delivering care and staffing challenges – they also have their eye on where the industry goes from here. As 2024 approaches, home care leaders are embracing AI, alternative payer sources, employee-centric solutions and much more.

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Under Two-Sided Risk Models, Quality Of Care Increases Compared To FFS Medicare

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Data examinations are beginning to shed greater insight on just how much better value-based payment models are for quality of care. When comparing two-sided risk models in Medicare Advantage (MA) versus fee-for-service Medicare programs, the former performed better in all eight quality-of-care metrics.

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How Home Care Providers Build Out Successful Training Programs

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Building a successful and sustainable caregiver training program in personal home care demands meticulous planning and execution. “My old business manager used to have a saying: ‘He or she who has the caregivers wins,’” Bob Roth, co-founder and managing partner of Cypress HomeCare Solutions, told Home Health Care News. “In

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CD&R-Backed Gentiva Agrees To Acquire ProMedica’s Home Care, Hospice Assets For $710M

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Gentiva – the company comprised of the hospice and personal home care assets of what was formerly Kindred at Home – has reportedly agreed to acquire ProMedica’s Heartland home care and hospice assets for $710 million. Led by the former CEO of Kindred, David Causby, Gentiva is backed by both Humana Inc.

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Inside 2 Emerging Risk-Based Home Care Models

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In order to become less dependent on fee-for-service business, home health providers have begun to take on more risk. That has led to an emergence of risk-based home care models, many of which have given providers room to partake in upside and downside risk. These areas are chronic care management and preventative care.

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2022 Home Care Executive Forecast: ‘Buckle Up For A Wild Ride’

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This year saw home care providers further build on the spotlight the public health emergency placed on the industry. As part of our annual tradition, Home Health Care News caught up with eight home care leaders to document their predictions on trends, challenges and opportunities for the coming year.

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Managed Care Contracts Fueling Growth For Continuous Home Care

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About a dozen years ago when Will Putman took over the business development side of Continuous Home Care, his dad — the co-founder of the company — had an unofficial benchmark nicknamed “blackjack.” Continuous Home Care is a Pennsylvania-based home health provider with about 350 employees.