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Human Resources
States Set Minimum Staffing Levels for Nursing Homes. Residents Suffer When Rules Are Ignored or Waived.
An acute staffing shortage in the nation's nearly 15,000 nursing homes is at the root of many of the most...
Payer
How Independence Blue Cross Combines CAHPS, Age-Friendly Models and Benefits Navigation For Caregiver Support
The payer?s partnership with Carallel addresses multiple industry pressures.
Technology
Vanderbilt Studies Value of Virtual Care for ICU Discharges
The health system is using a federal grant to analyze how a virtual care platform can be used to coordinate...
Post-Acute
Making In-Home Care Worker Safety a Priority
'Most organizations focus on protecting the patient and less on protecting the home care worker,' a Johns Hopkins professor says.
Post-Acute
Right at Home Care on Steady, Strategic Franchise Growth
The private duty caregiving franchise lets potential partners lead expansion, with their interest identifying new markets and territories.
Post-Acute
Focus on Caregiver Engagement When Starting Your Home Care Business
Learn what an Assisting Hands franchise owner did to improve an isolated workforce.
Post-Acute
Q&A: Home Health, Home Care Testimony Urges Congress to Act on Solutions for Sector Struggles
'Goal No. 1 is to get CMS to step back, exercise their authority, and say we don't have to institute...
Post-Acute
Round-Up: No Silver Lining for Staffing Mandates
The proposed federal mandate has been largely opposed, and state mandates haven't fared much better.
Post-Acute
How Private Duty Leaders Can Retain Caregivers
The COO of Caring Senior Service shares how incentivizing career development has been a successful way to keep caregivers from...
Post-Acute
New York SNF Organization Combats Workforce Crisis Expanding CNA, LPN, Home Health Aide Training
Students are paid for the time they spend training and getting hands-on experience in Loretto facilities.
Post-Acute
What CMS' Minimum Staffing Standards Proposed Rule Means for SNFs
The proposed staffing minimum exceeds the existing standards in most states.
Post-Acute
Foreign Healthcare Workers Can Aid but Not Solve Workforce Crisis
Improving pay and working conditions will go further in staffing home healthcare, expert says.