Despite industry-wide staffing woes, home-based care providers are starting to notch some tallies in the win column when it comes to recruiting and retention. Senior Helpers is one of those providers. The company operates a handful of training centers, which allow them to upskill caregivers. Each center is modeled to replicate an apartment, including a […]
The demand for personal home care services does not have a cap on it, and there will be more seniors than ever in the U.S. over the coming decade. But that doesn’t mean it’s an easy service to deliver right now. In 2024, providers need to find business models that actually make sense – from […]
The Medicaid Access Rule has been heralded by home care providers as a mostly good rule with one misguided piece: the 80-20 provision. And while that provision’s potential impact has been discussed ad nauseam, one area that hasn’t been considered as much is the effect it will have on private-pay home care providers. Billing rates […]
HouseWorks – one of the largest non-franchised home care providers in the U.S. – has executed another deal. The company has acquired AccordCare’s personal care division in Connecticut, which operates under the brands Companions & Homemakers and Companions Forever. The acquisition will bring HouseWorks into Connecticut for the first time, and further expand its footprint […]
Education is emerging as a key tool for home-based care providers as they try to recruit and retain staff. When utilized correctly, quality education is a resource that can help providers keep up with market demand. Always Best Care learned education’s importance firsthand through its own struggles. “We did an in-depth study in house,” Sheila […]
Most home care companies are generally committed to a single payer source more than they are the other ones, whether it’s private pay or Medicaid. But many companies have begun engaging with Medicare Advantage (MA), too, and most all companies have at least thought about diversifying their revenue, at least by a little. Still, there’s […]
Top home-based care leaders from across the country gathered at the end of March in Washington, D.C. We got to hear from many of them at Home Health Care News’ Capital + Strategy event last Thursday. While they are advocating for a better regulatory environment – whether in personal home care or home health care […]
The Pennant Group acquires the assets of Kenosha Visiting Nurse Association The Pennant Group Inc. (Nasdaq: PNTG) has purchased the assets of Kenosha Visiting Nurse Association Inc., a provider of home health, private-duty home care and community health services in Kenosha, Wisconsin. “We are pleased to expand our home health operations deeper into southern Wisconsin,” […]
COVID-19 hasn’t changed the workforce issues in home-based care, other than by making those issues worse at various stages of the pandemic. What has changed over the last few years is how providers are trying to address their workforce woes. Increasingly, they are turning to technology to do that. “We have more and more people […]
As a self-described data junkie, Stephen Tweed has lived by many mantras throughout his career in home care. When talking with Home Health Care News this week about how home care agencies can use and leverage data in order to grow, one of those mantras came to mind. “What gets measured, gets managed,” Tweed, the […]
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