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Thriving in Change Transcend’s latest research gives a deep understanding of the challenges caregivers face. It’s rich on data and insights your program can use to develop more community [...]

Note: In the discussion below, Transcend uses the term caregiver to mean home care nurse or home care aide. The specific sector of home care is private duty nursing and personal care, not [...]

Remember the old days, when new advertisements on billboards were wallpapered right over the old ones? Some websites certainly feel like that. Have you ever gone searching for what should be a [...]

Does your agency currently run a home-based palliative care program? If so, are you struggling to at least break even? Does a deficit prevent you from growing your program the way you want? Or [...]

With regulatory complexity increasing, staffing costs and pressures continually on the rise, and payment rates lagging the economic pressures of inflation, it’s no surprise that providers are [...]

Over the past 48 hours, I’ve had a number of conversations with nervous home health and hospice CEOs. The gist is the same. “Once the largest Medicare Advantage plan and one of the largest [...]

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandate in the Conditions of Participation that home care agencies must have continuous improvement programs in place for the patient care [...]

Inclusion of hospice in Medicare Advantage is all-but-guaranteed to happen in the coming years. How can you prepare to contract with private payers? The Medicare Advantage juggernaut The growth [...]

Many providers of home care have added new service lines since their agencies began. The logic has been solid – diversify offerings so the agency isn’t dependent on a single service, generate new [...]

In the face of an increasingly competitive landscape, home and hospice care agencies need a thorough understanding of their market to thrive – one that goes beyond the numbers to achieve a [...]