Read the latest from HomeCare contributors on how to run your home health agency, whether you're providing skilled care and therapy, managing a care plan, working in the hospice field or supporting personal care.
RALEIGH, North Carolina—North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein announced Aljihad Shabazz of Kernersville, North Carolina pleaded guilty for his role in a health care fraud scheme that defrauded the North Carolina Medicaid program of more than $4.7 million.
DUBLIN, Ohio—Cardinal Health announced its plans to build a new distribution center in the Greenville, South Carolina, area, to support its at-Home Solutions business, a home health care medical supplies provider serving people with chronic and serious health conditions in the United States.
NEW YORK—The home-based health care experience may be broken for both patients and caregivers, according to a newly releases survey from Tomorrow Health.
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona—In honor of National Nursing Assistants Week, taking place from June 14-20, Executive Home Care is celebrating the dedication and significant contributions of its nursing assistants who provide essential care to the community.
ROCKLIN, California—Luna, a provider of in-home, in-person physical therapy, and MedStar Health, a health care system, announced a partnership to improve access to in-person outpatient physical therapy across Washington, D.C., Baltimore and N
VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia–The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered more than $604,000 in back wages and liquidated damages for 50 employees of a Virginia Beach home health care agency that illegally asked workers to waive their right to receive overtime pay.
SEATTLE—Know Labs, an emerging developer of non-invasive medical diagnostic technology, revealed the next stage in the development of its proprie
DALLAS—Scott Powers, chief executive officer of Elara Caring, the full-scale, multi-state home health provider of clinical and personalized services across the patient continuum, will be speaking at the Home Care Innovation and Investment (HI2) Conference, joining other home care executives to discuss the state of the industry.
DALLAS—Homecare Homebase (HCHB) announced its home-based care software solution is the first to achieve dual verification status from Community Health Accreditation Partner, (CHAP). A non-profit accrediting body for home and community-based health care organizations, CHAP is approved by CMS and is a recognized leader in accreditation for both home health and hospice.
DALLAS, June 12, 2023 – Axxess clients will soon be able to streamline their quality and regulatory compliance workflows through a new partnership with QAPIplus. Axxess said the partnership will ease the burden on clinical and operational teams, enabling higher performance and better outcomes for patients and families.
OVERLAND PARK, Kansas—WellSky, a health and community care technology company, released a new report detailing results from a three-year study of home health care providers using predictive analytics tools in patient management.
MONTEBELLO, New York—Empeon, a human capital management (HCM) platform for health systems, announced its partnership with showd.me, a compliance and training partner for homecare agencies and skilled nursing facilities. The two software providers are joining forces and aiming to equip the health care industry with a robust technology stack to help combat the current employee retention crisis in healthcare staffing.
MINNEAPOLIS—Inbound Health, a company that enables health systems and health plans to offer hospital-at-home and skilled nursing-at-home programs, announced it has expanded its Home Hospital Care program to include general surgery, including orthopedics, bariatrics and hernia. This expansion builds upon the company's in hospital and skilled nursing-at-home care.
CHICAGO—Oak Street Health, a network of value-based primary care centers for adults on Medicare, announced plans to open centers in Little Rock, Arkansas; Des Moines and Davenport, Iowa; Kansas City, Kansas and Richmond, Virginia, beginning this summer. The expansion into these four new states will mark the 25th state in which Oak Street Health serves older adults.
PHILADELPHIA—A federal court has ordered a Philadelphia homecare agency and its owner to pay more than $7 million in back wages and liquidated damages to 1,230 current and former employees after two years of litigation affirmed the U.S. Department of Labor’s finding that the employers willfully failed to pay overtime wages, in most cases by not including employees’ time for work-related travel when calculating wages.
TROY, Michigan—ComForCare, a franchised provider of in-home caregiving services, forged an exclusive partnership with
For Aida Beltré, working remotely during the pandemic came as a relief.
She was taking care of her father, now 86, who has been in and out of hospitals and rehabs after a worsening series of strokes in recent years.
HOUSTON—A 47-year-old home health company owner has been ordered to prison following his conviction of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
Akintunde Oyewale, Richmond, pleaded guilty Feb. 1, 2022.
FORT WORTH, Texas—Jet Health, Inc., a leading regional provider of home health, hospice and personal care services, announced the appointment of
ROSEVILLE, California— Always Best Care Senior Services, one of the leading senior care franchise systems in the United States, announced the launch of a 24/7 artificial intelligence (AI) virtual care agent by Sensi.Ai to be available to its franchisees nationwide.
MONTREAL, CanadaAlayaCare, technology creator of the AlayaCare Cloud home- and community-based care operations platform, announced its latest AlayaCare University (ACU) training platforms designed to provide three tiers of on-demand training. AlayaCare is committed to ensuring all its customers from small-medium-sized organizations to public and enterprise & franchise care organizations have access to a broad choice of training and ongoing education options.
HouseWorks, a private in-home care agency, has seen an increase in demand for respite care services to give family caregivers a break from their demanding roles caring for seniors in their families.
