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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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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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Happy National Physical Therapy Month!

By | on 01, Oct 2013 |   APTA Physical Therapy Care Coordination Accountable Care Organizations ACO

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Using LinkedIn for Physical Therapy Businesses

By | on 23, Jan 2013 |   APTA Physical Therapy Care Coordination Will Hicklen Therapy Software Physical Therapy software Accountable Care Organizations Avoidable Readmissions ACO ACO Technology

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Hospitals Face Severe Penalties for Avoidable Readmissions

By | on 17, Dec 2012 |   Geriatric Care Management Care Coordination transitional care Will Hicklen Home Care Accountable Care Organizations Avoidable Readmissions National Association of Geriatric Care Managers ACO

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Simple Steps to Getting Through Email

By | on 09, Nov 2012 |   thought leadership Home Care Technology Will Hicklen Home Care NPDA PDHCA ACO Managing Post Acute Care

Great news-- this is a simple one. One of the big complaints I hear from people is that they are overwhelmed by email. I know I am, and I hate that feeling when people ask, "Did you get my email?" Whe[...]

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Managing Post Acute Care Operations in a Storm

By | on 29, Oct 2012 |   Patient Safety Physical Therapy Private Duty Home Care Blogs HME Delivery Operations Home Care Best Practices Care Coordination transitional care HME DME Will Hicklen Care Transitions Physical Therapy software ACO Managing Post Acute Care ACO Technology

How do you manage operations when disaster strikes? Technology and good planning should be your allies. Storms threaten patient safety and the delivery of post acute care, but a little planning and so[...]

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4 Steps for Home Care to Reduce Readmissions

By | on 24, Oct 2012 |   Private Duty Home Care Blogs Private Duty Agency Software Home Care Best Practices Care Coordination transitional care Will Hicklen NPDA PDHCA Accountable Care Organizations Avoidable Readmissions ACO Managing Post Acute Care Patient Centered Medical Home ACO Technology

Private Duty Home Care Industry, NPDA and PDHCA Must Measure Home Care's Impact in Reducing Avoidable Readmissions and Actively Promote Results NOW

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5 Things No One Told Me Before I Launched an ACO

By | on 22, Oct 2012 |   APTA Physical Therapy Care Coordination transitional care Will Hicklen Care Transitions Accountable Care Organizations Avoidable Readmissions ACO ACO Technology

"If I had known then what I know now..."

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CMS Penalties for Avoidable Readmissions Have Started

By | on 02, Oct 2012 |   Health Care Reform Care Coordination transitional care Will Hicklen Accountable Care Organizations Avoidable Readmissions ACO Managing Post Acute Care

The entire healthcare world has known for a long time that yesterday was coming: the day that CMS started penalizing hospitals for what are called avoidable readmissions. That's right--THAT just happe[...]

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