If you have not done research to find the right Remote Care Monitoring for your agency, now is the time. Since 2020 and the onset of the pandemic, the healthcare industry has been forced to use technology as a ‘partner’ in evaluating and treating patients in real time. Physicians were quick to adopt Telehealth as…
Read MoreIn HHCAHPS will become a major driver of value when calculated in the TPS scoring. Those items include: HHCAHPS Survey-based Care of Patients/Professional Care Communications between Providers and Patients/Communication Specific Care Issues/Team Discussion Overall rating of home health care/Overall Rating Willingness to recommend the agency/Willing to Recommend In this blog, we will look at just…
Read MoreBy Arlene Maxim RN, HCS-C COVID-19 has changed the outlook for telehealth. Providers quickly turned to telehealth and remote care monitoring to augment the much-needed services in the home. The gaps in care, as a result of the pandemic, were quickly closed when technology was adopted by providers. According to an article by McKinsey and…
Read MoreRe-Hospitalization Rates Prove Stubborn Despite Home Health Providers’ Efforts By Guest Contributor | July 30, 2018 For years, home health agencies across the country have had numerous reasons to focus on reducing their 60-day re-hospitalization rate. Yet performance in this area has slightly worsened, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) noted in its…
Read MoreMost people aren’t fully recovered when they leave the hospital — far from it. The period between hospital discharge and recuperating at home is critical for your loved one. Yet this hospital-to-home transition doesn’t always go smoothly. About 20 percent of Medicare patients are rehospitalized within 30 days, but experts believe that as many as…
Read More1. The senior population is growing faster than caregivers. The 85+ population is projected to quadruple by 2050, but the caregiver population will only double over the same time. Because of increases in life expectancy at older ages, people 85+ now comprise of 4.7 percent of the older population, as compared with only 2.8 percent…
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