It’s often difficult determining whether your home health agency succeeds in specific areas. In Managing Chronic Disease, weakness can be challenging from inside the organization. Evaluating Chronic

Start At The Top:

As an administrator, know your strengths and weaknesses. Surround yourself with those who have skills other than your own. Being a good administrator requires insight. Having other department heads who think exactly the way you do or agree with everything may make things easier for you, but isn’t necessarily the best for your agency. Having a devil’s advocate by your side makes for a better strategic partner in running your business. So, look deeply at the strengths in your administrative staff and decide if you have the right team to move your agency forward in a meaningful way.

Get The Right Clinical Manager:

This cannot be stressed enough in Medicare home health. Your clinical manager in a PDGM world is someone who is constantly referring to and managing your care plans. The clinical manager needs to be laser-focused on patient-centered care and outcomes. It is someone who works with all disciplines to come up with game plans for each visit. It means the clinical manager is more involved in road mapping each visit and how it relates to care plan goals and Oasis outcomes. You may say this is what the position does now. If so, then your STAR ratings are high. If they aren’t, then coordinated care planning is probably absent. If you are in need of operational change for that to happen, then begin now. If you have the wrong person in the position, then it is time to make a change. Often times as administrators, we make the mistake of thinking the best clinician has to be a great manager. Sometimes, the person who is an A+ at the bedside belongs by the bedside.

Working Your Way Through Staffing And Operational Changes:

At Kenyon Homecare Consulting, we focus on high-quality patient care and helping agencies function efficiently doing so. If you are currently struggling to achieve improved clinical outcomes and positive financial goals, call us at 206-721-5091 or contact us online to schedule your free 30-minute consultation. Whether you need clinical education, an operational change, or interim management to move you in the right direction, we can help.