The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. February 02, 2022
Building your Home Care Agency’s Brand – 6 things you can do
The best is yet to come for Home Care Agencies. With many studies now pointing to a revival and boom phase coming up for Home Care agencies, we bring your tips and techniques to manage your organization’s online presence. Unfortunately, most home care agencies invest little time and effort in building their online presence. It is not as expensive as you think.
CareVoyant brings you a set of six things you can do to improve your agency’s brand and digital presence.
Even though these rules have now been in vogue for a while, most private duty nursing and non-medical agencies have to strike a careful balance between the high quality and continuity of care they provide and minimizing the overtime cost.
With falling reimbursements from third-party payers, and trying to strike a balance between expectations and quality of service for private pay patients, most home care agencies are trying to adapt their business models to limit caregivers to 40 hours a week.
Technology has a significant role in improving the effectiveness of agency operations. By trusting in a leading home care software such as CareVoyant Home Care Software, agencies can effectively manage their employees and their time delivering care. With the rise of hospital-at-home and SNF-at-home care delivery models and the increasing relevance of telehealth, the choice of a scalable and configurable homecare software that can address the needs of nurses, operations managers, patients, and their families, becomes crucial.
Home Healthcare Industry News
Financing Confusion, Safety Concerns Could Thwart Choose Home’s Chances
The Choose Home Care Act of 2021 is the collective and proverbial baby of many home health stakeholders. And for good reason: It could allow more patients to recover in the home under Medicare – and change how the entire health care system works for older adults.
Home-Based Care Workers ‘More Comfortable’ Bringing Lawsuits Against Current, Former Employers
Four home care operators in Portland, Maine, were indicted on counts of wage fixing and labor market allocation charges, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday. And there could be a lot more where that came from. On a webinar last week, Littler Mendelson lawyers covered five legal trends to watch in 2022. Three of them were regarding wage-and-hour concerns.
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