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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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Home Care Leadership Styles: Simon Cowell or Chef Ramsay?

By | on 12, Aug 2014 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Private Duty Home Care Blogs Private Duty Agency Software Home Care Best Practices Home Care

Do you lead your home care organization like Simon Cowell or Chef Ramsay?

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5 Key Strategies for Winning in Home Care

By | on 08, Aug 2014 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Private Duty Home Care Blogs Private Duty Agency Software Home Care Best Practices Home Care

Hats off to Stephen Tweed, CSP and CEO of Leading Home Care, for an outstanding article he wrote recently called “The Art of Winning…in Home Care”. The inspiration for this terrific article came from [...]

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Care Transition Program Differentiates Home Care Company

By | on 24, Jul 2014 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Elderly Care Care Transitions Avoidable Readmissions

One key to successful growth in a home care business is to differentiate. We share other success factors in our free white paper, The 7 Habits of Highly Successful Home Care Agencies. In this blog, we[...]

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8 Apps That Can Reduce Readmissions

By | on 22, Jul 2014 |   Readmissions Home Care Mobile Solutions Care Transitions Avoidable Readmissions mHealth health care app

We came across an article entitled 6 Apps That Can Reduce Readmissions and decided to do you two better. There's a great deal of interest and development in the "readmissions avoidance" space and many[...]

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8 Steps You Can Take to Prevent Avoidable Readmissions

By | on 17, Jul 2014 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Readmissions Home Care Avoidable Readmissions ACO ACO Technology improving healthcare

Hospital profit margins are increasingly at risk, and as the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program continues to expand under the Affordable Care Act, hospital administrators are really feeling the he[...]

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A 4 Step Recipe for Home Care to Advance the Triple Aim

By | on 15, Jul 2014 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Readmissions Accountable Care Organizations Avoidable Readmissions ACO ACO Technology Triple Aim

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI - www.ihi.org) has developed a framework for improving healthcare called the Triple Aim. The framework defines the need to simultaneously focus on the fol[...]

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4 Ways to Prevent Hospital Readmissions

By | on 12, Jul 2014 |   Readmissions Care Transitions Avoidable Readmissions

Avoiding hospital readmissions is a good thing for a lot of reasons. First, readmissions are costing Medicare $26 Billion per year. Second, hospitals are being penalized for excessive readmissions (in[...]

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5 Cutting-Edge Aging in Place Technologies for Seniors & Retirees

By | on 09, Jul 2014 |   Elderly Care Aging in Place Technology home monitoring

Today we're taking a break from our typical topics of care transitions and home care to bring you a guest blog from Chicago-based freelance blogger and writer Beth Kelly. Beth's bio is below.

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How Can Home Health Profit From Readmission Penalties?

By | on 24, Jun 2014 |   Readmissions Care Transitions Accountable Care Organizations

We ran across a fascinating article by Tammy Worth recently, called “Home Health On Road to Reducing Readmissions”. In her article, Tammy makes a compelling case that even before impending readmission[...]

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Will the Top 6 Components of a Home Health Visit Change in 10 Years?

By | on 05, Jun 2014 |   Readmissions Elderly Care Care Transitions Accountable Care Organizations ACO

I found an interesting graphic on the website for the Healthcare Intelligence Network (www.hin.com) that itemizes the top components that occur in a home health visit.

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Is Medicare trying to Kill Home Health and Hospice Agencies?

By | on 19, May 2014 |   Readmissions Care Transitions Accountable Care Organizations Avoidable Readmissions ACO ACO Technology

I read kind of a scary article on the Healthcare Market Resources website (www.healthmr.com) entitled Medicate Policy Makers Threaten the Viability of Home Care and Hospice. The article is thorough an[...]

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Putting the Wind Back Into Your Home Care Sales

By | on 21, Apr 2014 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Private Duty Agency Software Home Care Best Practices

I'll have to see if the "bad pun" title works or not, but this is a serious topic.

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