"In the Words" of Home Health Care Leaders
A former business associate of Leading Home Care's Stephen Tweed went on to build a business that writes books based on the words of various groups of leaders. His most recent book is "In THE WORDS OF[...]
A former business associate of Leading Home Care's Stephen Tweed went on to build a business that writes books based on the words of various groups of leaders. His most recent book is "In THE WORDS OF[...]
One of our goals in the Ankota blog has been to encourage the use of social media in home care. Usually we share a short topic, but today we're going against the grain and sharing quite a long piece, [...]
I really enjoyed this short but powerful post on the blog at KevinMD.com. It's written by the Reverend George Handzo, a pastor in New York City. In home care nursing and caregiving, we have a great op[...]
Delirium is likely to be the most costly and debilitating disease afflicting the elderly that you never heard of. We focus lots of attention on dementia, alzheimers and fall-related issues, and we sho[...]
Our friends at Boyd & Nicholas, "The Cost Report People" provide a weekly newsletter that is a nice overview of issues affecting home care. This week they included a nice summary of a story in Hea[...]
Elizabeth Hogue has shared with us a nice summary of the final regulations defining Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). We include her write-up in its entirety below. The piece that gets us most ex[...]
Last week I heard a presentation by John Halamka, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Brigham and Women's hospital and Harvard Medical School. John and his organizations are always ahead of the cu[...]
We at Ankota strongly believe that care coordination and home care are the keys to improved health care. The math is simple:
As a consumer, measuring quality is usually second nature. You can look at a restaurant or a handbag or a pair of shoes and almost immediately decide whether it's a quality product or not. Perception [...]
Veteran Home Care nurse Colleen Lindblad RN has launched a new blog that provides support for caregivers, and is appropriately titled http://supportforcaregiver.blogspot.com/. Although this is a new i[...]
If you've come to this article, you're likely to have an elder family member or friend who is either temporarily or permanently struggling to live safely on their own and you're wondering what you can[...]
Only 5 percent of Americans accounted for roughly half of all U.S. health care spending in 2009, according to a report from the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation. Conversely, th[...]
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