AARP, formerly the American Association of Retired Persons, does a good deal of research on topics of interest to elder Americans. I came across an interesting research paper from the AARP Policy Inst[...]
Elizabeth E. Hogue, Esq. has written an in-depth article, "Taking Responsibility for Reductions in Hospital Readmissions: Be Careful!" that we encourage you to read, reposted here:
I love it when I meet someone in an unexpected way and find that they do extraordinary things. I met John Hargrave in church. He and I both have some musical talents (he plays bass and I play trumpet)[...]
Griswold Home Care recently posted a piece called, Caregiver Ethics: How to Choose a Reputable In-Home Caregiver that they have graciously allowed us to share with you here.
In the first home care industry event that I ever attended, I met two gentlemen named Tom Boyd and Tom Nicholas. Their company, aptly named Boyd and Nicholas, was very focused. They billed themselves [...]
Ankota Co-Founder, Ken Accardi, was recently interviewed by PracticeSuite.com about his thoughts on the future of healthcare and how technology can play a part. The full article, entitled, Expert Inte[...]
A few months ago, we shared that Walgreens pharmacy had entered the Care Transitions business with a program to help avoid readmissions. You can read the article here. In a nutshell, they saw some opp[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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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