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How home-based care agencies can add value for caregivers
In the ever-changing home care industry, there are innumerable variables that agencies must strategically consider – as well as those that are hard to predict but still need to be managed carefully. An aging demographic’s impact on the caregiving industry is certainly one variable that organizations must anticipate. Approximately 15 percent of U.S. residents are over the…
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AlayaCare University: Empower your team with expert-led training
Onboarding and training agency staff can be a very time-consuming process. Agencies currently rely on siloed Learning Management Systems (LMS), creating friction and time lags that prevent staff from getting up to speed quickly with software solutions and other custom-required skills. This in turn drags out the onboarding or upskilling process and prevents agency staff…
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How the budget pledge is improving access to quality, affordable health care
President Biden’s announcement of a $150 billion pledge to home and community-based services (HCBS) has been met with widespread approval from advocates and organizations that serve the elderly and individuals with disabilities. This new budget signals a major shift in how healthcare is delivered, with much greater emphasis on home-based care over institutional care. “We…
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What You Need to Know – Home Health Value Based Purchasing
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that health spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 percent for 2019-28 and to reach $6.2 trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology.
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Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Software, Our Ultimate Guide
What’s the best way to pay those who deliver home care services? The issue remains elusive when it comes to firm answers. It also remains a point of seemingly endless debate and consternation, which isn’t surprising when so much money, deep implications, and sensitivities collide in one discussion.
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How the right technology can support recruitment and retention during the caregiver shortage
At-home care is one of the fastest-growing healthcare segments in North America, even before the pandemic. US Government stats rank home care as one of the US’s fastest-growing occupations, with an additional million workers needed by 2026 (an increase of 50% from 2014). In recent years, the demand for at-home care has increased drastically, however,…
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Trends for home-based care in 2022
Will history judge 2022 to be the year that our health systems built back better? And that “better” accelerated the shift of care out of institutions and into the home? Or will it be a year where capacity constraints mean we missed a generational opportunity to transform how our societies deliver home-based care in the wake…
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The timely lure of M&As lead the list of key growth strategies in home care
In most specialized industries, a swell of companies compete for attention in the same customer pool, trying to attract a limited number of clients. Not so in the booming home health care market, where those in need of the service are expanding at a far quicker pace than those providing the service.
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Home care industry contending with Delta variant crisis
This article originally appeared on LinkedIn, by AlayaCare CEO, Adrian Schauer.
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How to leverage client surveys and feedback to market your agency and grow your home care business
We all know that the first step to solving a problem is acknowledging that there is a problem – but what if you don’t know about it in the first place? Use client surveys to get your answers.
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