Home Care Heroes Blog

Care Coordination and Checklists are How We Heal Health Care
One of the people I've come to greatly respect is Atul Gawande. He's a doctor and an author and we've featured him numerous times on the Ankota blog including as the author of Ankota's book of the...
Firing Home Healthcare Staff: The 10 Worst Things You Can Say
Whether you are part of a hospital system like Johns Hopkins Home Care Group in Baltimore or an independent Physical Therapy agency like Rehab Maxx in Chicagoland, Ankota's customers must sometimes...
5 Percent of the Population Accounts for 50% of Health care costs
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,...
Operational Excellence Home Care Agency? - 1st of 6 parts
Having worked in logistics for approximately fifteen years one of the industry rags I pick up on a regular basis is Logistics Management. Recently there was an article titled “The Five Hallmarks of...
Home Care and Checklists: The Full Story from Johns Hopkins
We've recently posted a few stories about the power of checklists. As we know, checklists are a best practice that nurses have embraced for a long time. We also use Home Care Telephony (using...
Checklists Improve Home Care Quality - Mini Case Study
Last month on this blog, we reviewed the book "The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande. It's a fascinating and riveting read that people both in and out of healthcare will connect with. Our initial...
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