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Home Health

News and guidance for home health agencies, covering clinical care, staffing, regulation and agency operations.

  • Better Understanding OASIS-E

    3 strategies for boosting clinician competency in assessment
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  • ‘It Was a Bloodbath’: Rare Dialysis Complication Can Kill, and More Could Be Done To Stop It

    Gedney survived a rare and very dangerous complication of hemodialysis—a venous needle dislodgment
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  • GAP gives trans & nonbinary individuals a safe space to recover

    Exploring affirming homecare and its impact
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  • Nonmedical Care Providers Play a Key Role in Moving Patients Home

    Homecare providers and their nonclinical, highly skilled caregivers can play a significant role in promoting a patient’s health, safety and recovery.
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  • Medtrade Reflects Big Changes to Equipment Industry

    Experts & attendees talk products, trends & more at the show’s first Dallas event
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  • New Ways of Approaching the Caregiver Crisis

    Putting together the hiring puzzle
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  • 5 Questions with Medtrade Show Director York Schwab

    Learn more about what to expect from Medtrade this year in Dallas
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  • How the Power of Technology Can Address Social Determinants of Health

    Imagine you are leaving the hospital after an extended illness or a severe injury. You are set to receive follow-up care from a home health care nurse. You have a list of medications that you will need to pick up at the local pharmacy. Your path to recovery seems well-established. But after a week, you’re back in the hospital. What happened? For many Americans, this is unfortunately an all-too-common situation. Perhaps a lack of transportation means there’s no way to get your prescription, and so your fever spikes. Or you can’t afford follow-up care, so you cancel your appointments, which leads to an infected wound. Those non-medical factors, known as social determinants of health, play a significant role in a person’s overall health and well-being….
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  • How Elara Caring Relies on Technology

    Elara Caring takes a high-touch, personalized approach to technology that focuses on the vitality of its patients. In fact, Elara, which is one of the largest providers of in-home care and growing quickly, has made tech central to its operations with the use of its ElaraConnect platform.
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  • How age tech is bridging the labor gap in homecare

    According to data from AARP, 77% of adults age 50 and older want to remain aging at home longer for as long as they can. Unfortunately, ongoing and growing challenges across the senior care industry—including the immense labor shortage of home health care workers—is inhibiting these individuals from doing so. This rings especially true for seniors who wish to return to their homes after a hospital stay caused by a fall or other health emergency. In the weeks and months after they are discharged, seniors are at their most vulnerable and also most in need of enhanced monitoring. This is precisely why this is a pivotal moment for homecare businesses and agencies to explore more innovative and accessible solutions to meet the needs of their…
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  • How States Plan to Use Federal Funds to Build a Better Direct Care Workforce

    The homecare industry should get an estimated $12.7 billion infusion from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), which should help put staffing in the spotlight and help expand and enhance home- and community-based services. With this funding, states can take actions to address unique needs within their borders, including making changes aimed at improving the HCBS workforce and structural concerns. It should help states grow capacity for providing critical services, meeting the needs of family caregivers and people on HCBS waitlists and tailoring HCBS activities to address priorities in their communities.
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  • Finding the Facts About Avoiding Infection at Home

    Home health patients are often at increased risk of acquiring infections. Here’s what some recent studies have found and how your own agency can get involved in research into infection control.
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