Does Your Agency REALLY Manage Chronic Diseases?

As a national consultant, I engage with companies all over the country. A big challenge in agencies is the inability to differentiate from the competition.

Managing compliance in the home care, home health, and hospice world is a challenge. Let's look at what it takes. It is necessary to be methodical and intentional.

Significant reductions is federal Medicaid funding has a huge impact to our nation's healthcare system to the tune of $911 billion over 10 years.

Somewhere in the mix of trying to improve patient care, the patients can get lost. The drive to to move to true patient centered care.

Quality of care issues present a range of challenges related to providing effective and safe care in a patient's home.

Infection Control breaches remain a problem in the home care industry. These are preventable errors for your surveys and in everyday practice.

Recruiting home care staff is challenging and costly, losing and replacing staff is worse. You also must consider lost opportunity costs.

One of the biggest challenges for home care and home health is the recruitment of staff to provide care. The high cost remains an issue for recruitment strategies.

There has been a growing issue with the supply of nurses and home care aides. This is particularly true for home care agencies. With the increased competition from hospitals, skilled nursing homes, Medicare home health and hospices for these workers, it has become increasingly difficult to recruit and hire.