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Ken Accardi

Ken is the founder and CEO of Ankota, a company that helps any organization that helps older or disabled people live independently in their home of choice. Having grown up with a disability and a passion for healthcare, this is Ken's mission

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A Word to the Home Care Industry about Breast Cancer

By | on 11, Nov 2015 |   Private Duty Agency Software Home Care Best Practices Care Transitions

Last month there was a lot of breast cancer awareness pink on display, but even though the pink is gone, it's not too late to get yourself screened for breast cancer, and to recommend the same for you[...]

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5 Steps to Building Home Care Referral Sources

By | on 09, Nov 2015 |   Private Duty Agency Software Home Care Best Practices Care Transitions

Today’s guest post is from Max Gottlieb, the content manager for Senior Planning. Senior Planning provides free assistance to seniors or the disabled and specializes in long term care—mainly finding a[...]

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5 Networking Tips for Home Care Professionals

By | on 26, Oct 2015 |   Private Duty Agency Software Home Care Best Practices Care Transitions

The biggest thing that sets successful home care agencies apart is that they build a network of partners who can send them referrals, and continue to nurture those relationships. Here's an earlier sto[...]

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5 Healthcare Fun Facts (Actually More Alarming Than Fun)

By | on 19, Oct 2015 |   Private Duty Agency Software Home Care Best Practices Care Transitions triple aim technologies

A friend of mine sent me a link to the healthcare page on the website www.justfacts.com. I also found an article called 50 Depressing Facts About the Healthcare System That Will Make You Beg for Refor[...]

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What Shark Tank Can Teach You About Homecare Startups

By | on 16, Oct 2015 |   Private Duty Agency Software Home Care Best Practices Care Transitions Ginny Kenyon home care technology report December 2015 Newsletter

One of the industry experts I learn from every time we speak is Ginny Kenyon, principal at Kenyon Home Care Consulting. Ginny helps open home care agencies and has given Ankota great inputs on our sof[...]

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Home Care Overtime is a "Double-Edged Sword"

By | on 13, Oct 2015 |   Private Duty Agency Software Home Care Best Practices Care Transitions

Overtime pay in home care is a tough issue to solve amicably for all parties. There's been a lot of attention to this issue among legislators and the latest is that the supreme court has denied the em[...]

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Home Health Formula: Better Outcomes, Lower Costs, More Referrals

By | on 07, Oct 2015 |   Private Duty Agency Software Home Care Best Practices Care Transitions triple aim technologies

If your home health agency could improve outcomes and star ratings, reduce cost for many episodes, and increase referrals, would that capture your attention?

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Bundles of Joy? How Bundled Payments will Effect Home Care

By | on 04, Oct 2015 |   Private Duty Agency Software Home Care Best Practices Care Transitions January 2016 Newsletter

Everyone has heard about how Obamacare is driving a change in healthcare reimbursement from a pay per service model (where each service is reimbursed against a price sheet) to a pay per outcome model,[...]

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10 Ways to Save With A Customized Homecare Manual

By | on 29, Sep 2015 |   Private Duty Agency Software Home Care Best Practices Care Transitions Ginny Kenyon home care technology report

One of the industry experts I learn from every time we speak is Ginny Kenyon, principal at Kenyon Home Care Consulting. Ginny helps open home care agencies and has given Ankota great inputs on our sof[...]

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Lessons Learned from my Hospitalization and Home Care Experience

By | on 23, Sep 2015 |   Private Duty Agency Software Home Care Best Practices Care Transitions

As I hinted in a recent blog post about bundled payments, I needed surgery and home care this month. On Monday August 3rd, I had a total knee arthroplasty (TKA - but more commonly known as a knee repl[...]

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7 Ways Home Care Must "Dare to be Different" In Order to Win

By | on 03, Sep 2015 |   Private Duty Agency Software Home Care Best Practices Care Transitions

Stephen Tweed has been a leader in home care strategy and consulting for over 30 years. I've had the privilege to meet Stephen several times and hear him speak. I also had the chance on one occasion t[...]

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Home Care Agencies with a Marketing Rep Earn $700K More Per Year

By | on 20, Aug 2015 |   Private Duty Agency Software Home Care Best Practices Care Transitions home care marketing steve the hurricane

There's a company called Home Care Pulse that performs an annual benchmark study of non-medical home care agencies. Some of those results were attended in a webinar that I attended with Steve "the Hur[...]

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