The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. October 24, 2024
Work-Life Balance: A Guide for Home Care Workers
Achieving a healthy work-life balance is crucial for home healthcare professionals. The job demands can be physically and emotionally taxing, and home care workers must take care of themselves to provide the best possible care to their patients.
To help home healthcare professionals strike a balance between their professional and personal responsibilities, it is crucial to establish clear guidelines and boundaries.
In the evolving field of home care, clinical managers face numerous challenges that impact their ability to provide high-quality patient care. Home Care Software offers powerful solutions to these challenges by transforming how clinical managers operate and manage their teams.
Discover how home care software helps clinical managers overcome challenges like scheduling, compliance, and care team communication to improve patient outcomes.
Home Health Care Agencies typically spend about 60% of their revenue on employee wages, and most of it will be for field employees providing services to patients. Declining reimbursements, continuing labor shortages, and increased labor costs make it imperative to improve the utilization of clinicians' time.
Improving operational efficiency in scheduling, clinical documentation, and quality assurance will impact the bottom line of Home Care Agencies. Home Care Agencies should look for a software platform that will provide the right tools to enhance clinicians' productivity.
Home Healthcare Industry News
‘Patients Hung Out To Dry’: Report Shows Insurers Significantly Increase Rate Of Denials For Post-Acute Care
The Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) released a report on Thursday revealing that the nation’s three largest Medicare Advantage (MA) insurers have significantly increased the rate at which they denied seniors’ post-acute care from 2020 to 2023.
Caregiver-confidants produce better outcomes for seniors, study finds
Individuals who fill the roles of both caregiver and confidant can create better health outcomes and care satisfaction for older adults, a new study published in The Journals of Gerontology suggests.
FTC appeals court ruling blocking ban on employment noncompete agreements
The Federal Trade Commission has appealed a federal court’s August ruling that prohibited the agency from enforcing a rule prohibiting employers from using noncompete agreements.
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