How to Better Manage Your Remote Workers

How to Better Manage Your Remote Workers

The majority of home health workers work independently, only visiting the agency offices occasionally for meetings or other “check-ins.” In some rural areas, those office visits may be even fewer and further between. Although the nature of the home health industry...
Will Nursing Homes Eventually Disappear?

Will Nursing Homes Eventually Disappear?

For generations, it was often a foregone conclusion for many people that their final days would be spent in a nursing home. In 2005, research showed that at least 35 percent of Americans would receive nursing home care at some point in their lives, with about half of...
New Initiative: Increase Home-Based Primary Care

New Initiative: Increase Home-Based Primary Care

For most of us, the idea of a house call from the doctor seems impossibly quaint, like something from the “Andy Griffith Show,” a remnant of a time gone by. That doesn’t mean that many people don’t long for those days, where they wouldn’t have to leave home to see the...
How Will AI Change Home Health?

How Will AI Change Home Health?

The idea of artificial intelligence and its applications in healthcare has been a hot topic of conversation for several years now. Questions haven’t been related to the role of AI in healthcare, but rather focused on how AI will be used, and to what extent. While some...
What HHAs Can Learn From Recent Disasters

What HHAs Can Learn From Recent Disasters

When the recent spate of storm in 2017 lashed the southern U.S. and Caribbean, much of the news coverage focused on the flooding and massive destruction that the heavy rains, wind, and storm surges left in their wake. In many areas, the damage was catastrophic, and it...