The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. July 18, 2024
Four Strategies to Support New Home Healthcare Clinicians
New nurses, CNAs, and caregivers often feel lost and overwhelmed due to the immense responsibility they hold for sometimes critically ill patients. Lack of proper support through these new challenges can lead to employee burnout, job dissatisfaction, and decreased patient care.
There are countless benefits to supporting new clinicians, including increased employee retention, increased employee referrals, and improved patient care.
Ninety-one percent of home care patients express satisfaction with their caregivers, underscoring the importance of compatibility in a caregiver-patient relationship. Furthermore, scheduling the same caregiver to the same patient over longer periods of time leads to higher patient satisfaction rates, highlighting the benefits of care continuity.
Making compatible matches involves navigating the diverse clinical needs, preferences, and personalities of the patients and clinicians. Just this process can be overwhelming for schedulers. However, with assistance from the right Private Duty Nursing Software, clinician-patient matching can be streamlined to improve a home care agency’s operational efficiency, bottom line, and overall care quality.
Private Duty Home Care is an often overlooked but fast-growing market. The market value of Private Duty services stood at almost $610 billion in 2023. That value is set to grow 7% by 2032, leaving it at a whopping $1176 billion.
This growth is due to senior population growth, rising demand for personalized care, and advancements in medical technology which allow skilled services to be tracked and delivered at the patient’s home. Real-time monitoring is an essential piece of this puzzle.
Home Healthcare Industry News
A ‘Fairly Big’ Deal: The Changes To Home Health Conditions Of Participation, OASIS
There are other areas of the new CMS proposal that providers should be paying attention to. One of these areas is the OASIS updates for the home health quality reporting program (HHQRP), which begin in January 2027.
NCOA slams proposed appropriations bill slashing senior care programs
The House Appropriations Committee approved a spending proposal that would trim millions of dollars from Older Americans Act (OAA) programs. The action spurred an outcry from aging services stakeholders.
Shifting medication management to family caregivers comes with challenges, study finds
The patient-to-caregiver transitions in terms of medication management wasn’t proactive but reactive (meaning caregivers took the reins after there was a medication error or other adverse event), the data showed.
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