A Staffing Crisis In 2016, a Midwest hospice provider serving 11 counties over a tristate area found a solution to a staffing crisis that would lead to unexpected benefits. After losing two afterhours nurses, the leadership’s top priority was finding an afterhours...
For many hospice and home care providers, trying to grow while supporting the cost of growth is an ongoing balancing act. For our hospice and homecare company in California, the struggle of handling afterhours calls for over 100 patients reached a tipping point in...
As you know, back in September of 2016, the CMS finalized a new disaster readiness rule for health care institutions participating in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which includes new provisions for home health agencies. The deadline for compliance, November...
Whether you’re at the helm of a home health business or building a house, if you make key decisions based on a “best guess,” you are doomed to miss the mark. Measurement enables precision in execution. Without it, you are lost in the dark, at the mercy of chance....
ThedaCare at Home, a hospice and home-health provider located in Appleton, Wisconsin, was facing unprecedented staffing concern. “There were four people positioned for retirement,” Bobbie Thompson, Manager of Clinical Office Operations at ThedaCare at Home recalls,...
Because of the demanding nature of the hospice industry, clinical administrators, hospice directors, and after-hours coordinators often struggle to find ways to provide quality care while keeping a tight rein on staffing costs. Quality care is the number one priority...
