home health

SHOREVIEW, Minn. (January 8, 2020)—Muse Healthcare announced the launch of its advanced machine learning technology for hospice providers. The solution analyzes hundreds of thousands of data points from millions of visits, vital signs, orders and more to identify which hospice patients are most likely to transition within seven to 12 days.

ROSEVILLE, Minn. (January 7, 2020)—Pediatric Home Service (PHS), an independent comprehensive homecare provider, is proud to announce a new partnership with The Care Group, a specialty group providing respiratory care and enteral nutrition to patients in Houston and Dallas, Texas.

DETROIT (January 2, 2020)—ComForCare Home Care, a franchised provider of in-home caregiving services, announced their Caregiver of the Year at the company’s national conference. Beth Trivett, a ComForCare caregiver in Hendersonville, Tennessee, was awarded the 2019 Caregiver of the Year from more than 125 nominations.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (December 11, 2019)—Local entrepreneurs looking to run a business that makes a difference in the lives of North Carolina families have to look no further. BrightStar Care, a national franchise specializing in providing A Higher Standard of Care in medical and non-medical in-home care services, has announced plans to add 15 franchise territories throughout North Carolina, and is seeking qualified franchise partners to operate in each market.

WASHINGTON, D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 3, 2019)—In mid-November, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-Massachusetts) and Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-Texas) announced a Request for Information (RFI) soliciting input to inform the Rural and Underserved Communities Health Task Force as it works to develop bipartisan legislation to improve health care outcomes within underserved communities.

SUNRISE, Fla. (December 3, 2019)—Interim HealthCare Inc., a national franchiser of homecare, hospice and health care staffing, is a silver winner of the 2019 Workforce: Optimas Awards. Selected for its multi-pronged approach to building a strong workforce. Interim HealthCare’s commitment to this initiative is first and foremost to help combat the nation’s caregiver shortage. By 2025, the United States will need to hire 2.5 million new health care workers to care for its aging population.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 26, 2019)—The National Quality Forum (NQF) recently posted the list of Measures Under Consideration (MUC) for future use in the hospice quality reporting program (HQRP) and the home health quality reporting program (HHQRP). The list is released annually, and there is an opportunity for stakeholder comment. In fact, comments were due Nov. 25, 2019.

ATLANTA (November 21, 2019)—Trella Health, a source for current and complete post-acute outcomes data and performance analytics, published its most recent Industry Trend Report and released a new quarterly data set. Trella customers now have access to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) claims data through the second quarter of 2019.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 20, 2019)—The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued Change Request (CR) 11527, which includes further updates to the Claims Processing Manual, chapter 10, related to the Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM).

BOSTON and SYDNEY (November 19, 2019)—Orbita, the provider of a health care conversational artificial intelligence (AI) platform, announced that it is now offering OrbitaASSIST, an award-winning, voice-enabled, AI-driven bedside virtual health assistant.

NORTHFIELD, Ill. (November 18, 2019)—To help identify and scale new evidence-based techniques to improve clinical outcomes around wound care, Advocate Aurora Health’s Post-Acute Division is advancing customized education through a collaboration with Medline for more than 400 nurses across Illinois and Wisconsin.