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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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Pharmacist-Led Care Transitions: Good or Bad for Home Health?

By | on 15, Apr 2014 |   Readmissions Care Coordination transitional care Care Transitions

Walgreens Pharmacy has instituted a pharmacist-led care transitions program called WellTransitions® and they are posting impressive results. According to a Business Wire Press Release on April 4th, 20[...]

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Home Care Marketing - Make Your Phone Ring!

By | on 03, Apr 2014 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Marketing Home Care Home Care Best Practices

Home care consultant and my friend, Ginny Kenyon, published a great piece in her blog entitled Home Health Marketing Ideas to Make Your Agency's Phone Ring. What I loved about the article is that it r[...]

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Inappropriate Home Health Referrals and Billing Lead to Convictions

By | on 27, Mar 2014 |   Home Care Industry Elderly Care Health Care Reform Home Healthcare Delivery Management

At Ankota, we believe that home care should play a vital and increasing role in health care reform. Keeping elderly and fragile patients out of the hospital and in their homes can greatly reduce healt[...]

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CMS Readmission Penalties for Dummies

By | on 13, Mar 2014 |   Readmissions Care Coordination Care Transitions Avoidable Readmissions

Have you ever seen those books that teach information "for Dummies"? I just went to the official website (www.fordummies.com,) and these were the titles displayed on the home page:

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5 Warning Signs of Home Health Agency Start-up Failure

By | on 10, Mar 2014 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Home Care Best Practices thought leadership Home Care

We recently published a piece called The 7 Habits of Highly Successful Home Care Agencies that shared our top observations of consistent practices that we see in agencies that are thriving. My mentor [...]

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