Top Choice Home Care opening second location … Dakota Home Care opens new office in Fargo … Improved home care services coming for Missouri’s Medicaid recipients … Why medical supply shortages...
Researchers tout method for ensuring data travels home with patients
By
John O'Connor
Sep 23, 2020
When post-acute patients transfer to a home care setting, needed information often can get lost. But by implementing and further developing Continuity of Care Document standard codes, home care operators...
Nurse with the meds is stuck in traffic? In Helsinki, it’s no big deal
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John O'Connor
Sep 23, 2020
Getting medications to home care recipients in large metropolitan areas can be a challenge. Especially if the nurse carrying them is delayed. Finland’s largest city has found a way around the problem:...
Home care briefs for Wednesday, Sept. 23
By
John O'Connor
Sep 23, 2020
Lotsa Helping Hands and Papa team up to improve care … Indiana pilot program aids Medicaid waiver managers … Many falls can be prevented
CMS finalizes chronic kidney disease payment model
By
John O'Connor
Sep 22, 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finalized an alternative payment model for patients with chronic kidney disease.
Growing pains or not, many operators wincing under PDGM
By
John O'Connor
Sep 21, 2020
Many home care operators viewed the looming Patient-Driven Grouping Model with a combination of angst and dread. Nearly a year into Medicare’s new classification and payment system, such concerns hardly...
Dementia-related deaths climbing as pandemic spreads
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John O'Connor
Sep 21, 2020
Although the ongoing pandemic has been tough on the elderly, it has been particularly cruel to those with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. In fact, deaths linked to this group jumped by more...
Home care briefs for Monday, Sept. 21
Sep 21, 2020
Loneliness Squad helps homebound seniors … Vaccination timeline under dispute … Weekly jobless claims down 33K
Beefed up Aetna program targets people with multiple chronic diseases
By
John O'Connor
Sep 18, 2020
Aetna is trying out an expanded approach to home healthcare for people with multiple chronic diseases. The CVS-owned firm will team with Landmark Health to help its Medicare Advantage plan policy holders....
Home care briefs for Friday, Sept. 18
Sep 18, 2020
Feds outline details for fast-tracked COVID vaccine deliveries … CMS launches 2020 flu season campaign … Caregiver Homes of Indiana announces care management pilot … The Pennant Group buys Texas...