Home Care Daily - National Home Care Industry News

National Nurses Week took place the week of May 6th through the 12th. Many of the home care providers working in the United States are visiting nurses, providing a wide range of services to elderly and disabled clients. In some cases, they will monitor vital stats, change wound dressings, administer medications, and perform other services.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) involves tools that are designed to improve company reputation, sales, and overall brand identity and recognition for businesses of all sizes. When it comes to the home care industry, many agencies may be focused on providing quality care and support to its client base, but much of the work that’s done administratively is performed manually. 

Raising pay for home health care providers is a wonderful thing all around. It not only helps attract more experienced, quality care providers and also reduce turnover, it also helps those workers establish a higher quality of life with more financial resources. As the Minnesota legislature is engaged in intense budget discussions, a proposed increase of Medicaid reimbursements to personal care assistants -or home care providers- has been ongoing. 

An elderly veteran was found mortally wounded outside of a home care facility in Houston last March. The coroner’s report noted that Hubert Heatherly, who had been found bleeding next to his wheelchair only a few feet from the entrance of the home care facility died of blunt force trauma to the head. 

Two home health care companies operating in Massachusetts have reached settlement agreements that help to resolve allegations they had defrauded the state’s Medicaid program for a number of years. Improper billing is the main focal point surrounding the charges against Amigos Homecare LLC of Lawrence and Avenue Homecare Services Inc. in Dracut. 

SUNRISE, Fla. – May 13, 2019 – Interim HealthCare Inc., a leading national franchisor of home care, hospice and healthcare staffing, today announced Rakel Nussbaumer as its 2019 Nurse of the Year. Rakel works as a registered nurse for Interim HealthCare of Clovis, New Mexico, bringing comfort and care to her patients and their families. The “Interim HealthCare Nurse of the Year” is awarded annually during National Nurses Week, which begins May 6 and ends May 12, on Florence Nightingale’s birthday.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) dealt what could be a potentially devastating blow to unions that had been including home health care providers in their memberships. A new regulatory change enacted by CMS now stipulates that union dues can no longer be automatically withdrawn or deducted (paid) from a health care workers paycheck if the money is being paid directly through Medicaid. 

A Missouri health care company has entered into a deal to sell two of their home health care agencies to a joint venture. This joint venture includes the LHC Group. These home health care agencies are located in Jefferson City and Mexico. They are both affiliated with SSM Health.