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Good Communication in Home Care is about Listening!!!

By | on 06, Feb 2012 |   Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices Care Coordination Home Care

I really enjoyed this short but powerful post on the blog at KevinMD.com. It's written by the Reverend George Handzo, a pastor in New York City. In home care nursing and caregiving, we have a great op[...]

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A Home Care Checklist for Good Dementia Care

By | on 23, Nov 2011 |   Alzheimer's Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices

In caring for the elderly, knowing how to work with Alzheimer’s and Dementia patients is essential! We've blogged about this in the past based on a very special meeting with the "The Alzheimer's Whisp[...]

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Healthcare Software - Security and the Cloud

By | on 10, Oct 2011 |   Private Duty Agency Software Home Health Aide Software Home Care Best Practices Home Healthcare Delivery Management Home Care Technology Home Care Physical Therapy software Home Care Scheduling Software

When looking at either a software or a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) application for your Home Care, Home Health Care, DME, Home Infusion, or Private Duty Agency security is an important consideration.[...]

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The Best Way to Measure Home Care Quality

By | on 25, Aug 2011 |   Marketing Home Care Home Care Industry Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices Care Coordination transitional care Home Care

As a consumer, measuring quality is usually second nature. You can look at a restaurant or a handbag or a pair of shoes and almost immediately decide whether it's a quality product or not. Perception [...]

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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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Moving Home Care to the Cloud

By | on 31, May 2011 |   Home Care Industry Home Health Aide Software Home Care Best Practices Home Healthcare Delivery Management Home Care Technology Home Care Scheduling Software Leadership Product Information

The cost of purchasing and operating “on-premises” applications continues to increase and shows no sign slowing down. Traditionally, servers were purchased and installed at a home care business. Then [...]

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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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The Superbowl of Home Care!

By | on 08, Feb 2011 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Marketing Home Care Home Care Best Practices thought leadership Will Hicklen NPDA PDHCA Leadership NAHC Learning

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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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