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Ken Accardi

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10 Ways to Network for Success in Home Care

By | on 01, Aug 2011 |   Marketing Home Care Home Care Industry Home Care Best Practices Leadership

Today's post is about Networking for Success. It comes from the Private Duty Today newsletter published by Stephen Tweed's Leading Home Care organization. The article was written by Stephen Tweed and [...]

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Grow your Home Care Business with Concierge Services

By | on 25, Jul 2011 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Starting a Home Care Business Elderly Care Private Duty Agency Software Home Health Aide Software

One of my favorite home care expert consultants is Ginny Kenyon from Kenyon Home Care Consulting. Ginny helps to launch around 20 agencies each year and also helps exisiting agencies to grow. Today's [...]

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12 Great Movie Quotes for Home Care Entrepreneurs

By | on 12, Jul 2011 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship

The mark of a great movie is not only about how many tickets it sold, but also how memorable and "quotable" are the lines. Inspired by the new movie "Horrible Bosses", Forbes magazine came out with a [...]

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Home Care Startup Lessons Learned from Ginny Kenyon

By | on 02, Jun 2011 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Starting a Home Care Business Elderly Care Private Duty Agency Software Home Health Aide Software

Sometimes we proudly share the wonderful work of others on our blog and today we share a compelling post from my friend and mentor Ginny Kenyon. Ginny does a wide array of consulting work to get agenc[...]

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Selling Home Health to Hospitals, ACOs & Other Healthcare Facilities

By | on 19, May 2011 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices Health Care Reform thought leadership

Hospitals and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are offering new opportunities for partnerships with home health care organizations, but in order to capitalize, your organization needs to learn ho[...]

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Must discharge planners offer Home Health Choices?

By | on 23, Mar 2011 |   Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices Care Coordination Accountable Care Organizations ACO Learning

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Sell Home Health to Physicians in Order to Grow, per Stephen Tweed

By | on 10, Feb 2011 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Marketing Home Care Home Care Industry Home Care Best Practices NAHC Learning

A big focus of the Ankota Blog is Home Care Entrepreneurship. We introduced this topic in our post entitled For Home Care, the way forward requires you to think like a start-up, where NAHC's Bill Domb[...]

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Top 10 Best Practices in Home Care - shared by Merrily Orsini

By | on 04, Feb 2011 |   Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices NPDA

One of the things we do on our blog is to talk about social media because we believe that the home care industry can benefit from sharing and learning through social media like Facebook, Twitter, Link[...]

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Overcoming Compassion Fatigue is Critical for Home Care Workers

By | on 25, Jan 2011 |   Healthy Caregivers Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices

I've recently read a number of articles about compassion fatigue. In short, people who focus their lives on caring for others are succeptible to become tired and less compassionate. Compassion fatigue[...]

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Home Care Scheduling Software for Snow Emergencies

By | on 12, Jan 2011 |   Home Care Best Practices Home Healthcare Delivery Management

I'm just bad luck... Last year around this time I had to cut short a trip with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia when they shut down the office to manage a Blizzard, and yesterday I[...]

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Laurie Orlov's Aging in Place 2010 Recap provides Home Care Insight

By | on 29, Dec 2011 |   Senior Demographics Home Care Industry Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices Aging in Place Technology Home Care Technology

How did you spend you holiday vacation? Aging in Place expert Laurie Orlov clearly spent hers thinking about what happened in 2010 and what is likely to happen in 2011 in the arena of aging in place. [...]

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Scientists Acknowledge the Need for Home Health Care

By | on 13, Dec 2010 |   Senior Demographics Home Care Industry Health Care Reform thought leadership Home Care Technology

With the population aging and the ability to treat more diseases, the world is waking up to the fact that health care delivery will need to change. A lot of what we hear in the news is motivated by po[...]

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