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Top Five Reasons a Home Care Agency Switches Software
Home care agencies of today need modern homecare software solutions. Some have existing software that can adapt while others feel stuck with something that may not be functioning to expectation — precisely when they start exploring new options.
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How Innovation Empowers Home Care Clinical Staff
In some industries, administrative backlogs and inefficient processes can cause minor disruptions, like pushing back a deliverable for a couple of days. Companies live with this because it doesn’t ultimately affect their missions. But in certain industries, such inefficiencies can carry a very real and human cost.
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A Perfect Pair: The Art and Science of Caregiver/Client Matching
On Wednesday mornings in Trenton, New Jersey, Jessica visits her client Marie. She always brings groceries — including Marie’s favorite ice cream — a special treat for Mary’s cat, Sapphire, and a book of crossword puzzles to work on with Marie while they share a cup of tea.
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Choose the Right Home Care Software to Maintain Multi-Office Functionality
A home care agency that is so successful it expands to multiple sites inevitably faces one key practical challenge: how to ensure consistent operations across the board? Whether these locations are grouped in the same region or spread across the country, this challenge is a routine pain point for many companies in the industry. Home…
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How to Deliver More Quality Home Care Without Hiring More Care Workers
For many home care providers there is no lack of clients or business coming their way. The real challenge is how to recruit and retain high-quality staff to meet the demand. Many HR and Operations managers look to bring on more staff, which is part of the answer, but we believe increasing utilization of your…
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Embrace Technology to Recruit and Retain Caregivers
Our aging society presents both opportunities and challenges across many industries and sectors, including the home care market. While jobs that cater to seniors are projected to rise 13 per cent by 2020, the flip side of that growth means that finding and retaining qualified caregivers will become ever more challenging. Certainly, it’s no secret…
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CODE RED: Emergency Preparedness Rule set to impact Medicaid business
In 2016, there were 46 “major disasters” and another 50 fire-related national emergencies, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). There were also “emergency declarations” across another seven states in the wake not only of Hurricane Matthew but contaminated water in Michigan and severe storms in both Missouri and Louisiana.
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A Window on the Future of Home Care Market: Implications for the Mandatory use of Electronic Visit Verification (EVV)
A window of opportunity has arrived. Section 12006 of the Obama administration’s 21st Century CURES Act ushered in what most in the home care services industry expected: measures to corral unchecked and sometimes fraudulent billing practices to Medicaid. That came largely in the form of one newly mandatory requirement: Electronic Visit Verification (EVV), which allows…
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The Role of Telehealth in a Consumer Directed Care Model
The latest phase of Consumer Directed Care (CDC) implementation for community aged care promotes a market-driven approach that empowers clients; it emphasizes clients’ right to have more visibility, engagement, and arguably the most integral component—choice in the care and services they receive. Most aged care providers are poorly positioned to accommodate this shift due to lack…
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