The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. May 25, 2022
Continuous Care Documentation for Private Duty Home Care Agencies
Nurses providing Private Duty Nursing care work in longer shifts providing continuous care for the same patient. They need to collect and document Vitals and Measurements (Vent Settings, Trach Settings, Cough Logs, Seizure Logs, etc.) and administer medications and treatments multiple times during the shift. Providing continuous care in a longer shift creates unique documentation challenges for nurses and Private Duty Home Care agencies.
A software platform should accommodate the challenges of Continuous Care Documentation for Private Duty Nursing Home Care Agencies.
Key Performance Indicators for Home Care Agencies
Managing Home Care Agencies is a massive challenge in today's environment of staffing shortages, increased regulatory demands, and declining reimbursement. Improving the financial performance and operational efficiency of home care agencies must begin with an approach to managing by the numbers. Agencies must define benchmarks across clinical, financial, and administrative facets using clearly defined Key Performance Indicators and the acceptable level of performance.
As most Home Health Care agencies already provide Therapy Services as part of the Medicare Part A program, providing Outpatient Therapy Services at home under Medicare Part B or commercial payers will be a natural extension of services. Home Health Care agencies do not require any additional licenses to provide outpatient therapy services and the rapid rise in demand for in-home outpatient services provides additional revenue opportunities for agencies.
A software platform designed to handle both home health care and outpatient services will provide a unique advantage to agencies.
Home Healthcare Industry News
Home Care Workforce Action Alliance Formed as Providers Hit All-Time Case-Decline Highs
It is often said that storytelling can be a powerful tool for change. This is what the members of the newly formed Home Care Workforce Action Alliance are banking on with the announcement of the Voices for Care at Home campaign.
The Home Care Workforce Action Alliance is the byproduct of some of the biggest industry stakeholders on the trade association side. The Home Care Association of America (HCAOA), and the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) are joining forces to tackle the ongoing home care staffing crisis.
The 5 Most Important Metrics You Need to Audit Your Agency’s Training Program
From 5th position in 2019 to taking the #1 spot in this year—lack of training has risen to the top of the list of caregiver complaints, according to the most recent HCP Benchmarking Report.
Which means caregiver training in home care isn’t making the grade, and your employees are noticing.
Industry Fragmentation Has Left Home Health Providers ‘Exploited’ by Medicare Advantage
The highly fragmented home health industry has turned providers into commodities, at least in the eyes of Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations.
Because there are so many providers looking to make managed care inroads, the rates home health operators receive from MA sources are typically far below what they get from fee-for-service Medicare. That sense of parity exists for small and large home health providers alike as well.
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