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Biggest challenges for home care agencies? Shortage, turnover, survey finds
More than one-third of home care agencies surveyed in the latest benchmarking report by Home Care Pulse said the caregiver shortage had an extremely negative impact on their businesses last year compared to 10% who said it was an extreme problem in 2020. “The shortage is real. What you’re feeling is real,” Home Care Pulse President Todd […]
Read MoreHome care community takes key step on staffing woes
If there was ever a time to pull out the stops to tackle home care’s staffing shortage, it would be now. Company losses and reports of not being able to fill shifts as demand skyrockets makes this issue priority numero uno for the industry. Apparently, the home care world thinks so, too. In a town […]
Read MoreHome-Based Care Acquisitions, Partnerships Both on Table for CVS Health
CVS Health has become one of the most interesting home-adjacent health care players since its investor day last December. It’s possible that the “adjacent” tag will soon be dropped, and the company will be squarely in the home-based care space. “We are diversifying our growth portfolio with new health services,” CVS Health President and CEO Karen […]
Read MoreFormer Google Exec Raises $9.5M, Launches In-Home Care Startup Reverence
Reverence – a digital home-based care coordination platform – has come out of stealth with $9.5 million in funding. Backed by Target Global, Reverence will use the funding to build out a suite of products and services enabling the delivery of in-home care. The company has also earmarked some funds for the purposes of growing […]
Read MoreBone health program aims to prevent senior falls
A new program at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles is trying to catch at-risk seniors from falling and potentially breaking bones or sustaining other life-threatening injuries. The bone health and falls risk consultation program is available to anyone over age 65. Seniors receive bone density scans and are scored on their risk of sustaining major fractures from […]
Read MoreProviders reveal why they didn’t collapse under federal staff vaccination mandate
Nobody can ever accuse long-term care providers of not being passionate. Credit must also be given because they are pretty good teachers. When this scribe recently asked operators for personal notes about true employee losses they suffered from the mass employee exits that industry leaders predicted for when the mandate deadlines kicked in, the industry […]
Read MoreHomewatch CareGivers Targets In-Home Nutritional Support, Partners with Chefs for Senior
Access to quality nutrition is often one of the overlooked aspects of maintaining a healthy lifestyle for seniors aging in place. But companies that offer home-delivered meals can help boost patient outcomes and lower overall health care costs. Home-based care providers that are partnering with such organizations see the relationship as a “beautiful fit,” especially […]
Read MoreHome-Modification Bill Could Lead to Lower Costs, Partnerships for Home Care Providers
A bill allowing older adults to deduct home-modification expenses from their taxes was introduced in Washington, D.C. last week. If passed, the Home Modification for Accessibility Act would provide a boost to aging-in-place efforts, perhaps spurring greater partnership between home care companies and home-modification businesses. Already, home care industry leaders and home-modification stakeholders are heralding […]
Read MoreSeniors’ long-COVID symptoms often overlooked, confused with aging
Long COVID, or new or ongoing or health problems at least four weeks after a COVID infection, may hit seniors differently, with symptoms that mimic the effects of aging leading to oversight or misdiagnosis. Come occurrences with long COVID include shortness of breath, an elevated heart rate and muscle and joint pain; in seniors, they […]
Read MoreThe best reason of all to reduce staff turnover
Any long-term care professional will tell you that finding and keeping qualified employees is getting harder by the day. For reasons that range from The Great Resignation to greener pastures elsewhere, workers in this — and many other fields as well — are giving employers the old sayonara salute. Which means the incredibly difficult job […]
Read MoreHome-Based Care Providers See Staffing Tailwinds from Inflation, Travel Nursing Decrease
The staffing situation has been dire in home-based care for a long time, but there could finally be tailwinds slowly gaining momentum at providers’ backs. There is an increasing amount of evidence suggesting that the home health and home care labor markets could get a boost from two somewhat unexpected types of workers: sidelined ones […]
Read More5 Questions With Bill Dombi on the Homecare Workforce
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the Home Care Association of America (HCAOA) and BAYADA Home Health Care recently kicked off a new initiative to improve conditions, pay and recognition for homecare workers (read more about it here). NAHC President and CEO Bill Dombi sat down with HomeCare to share more about […]
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