How do you know when your brand needs an update?
One of the mainstays of a strong brand is unwavering consistency. You – and most providers of services or products, for that matter – work hard to build brand equity and a foster long-term [...]
Referral interventions improve patient outcomes and costs
What topics have most interested Transcend’s readers and listeners like you? It’s no great surprise that our most popular podcast and one of our most highly visited blog posts is titled, [...]
What innovations are needed for in-home care?
You’re likely familiar with Plato’s famous quote, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” COVID-19 has created new necessities in healthcare delivery – and has jump-started some waves of [...]
The growing value of adult day care
When COVID-19 brought lockdowns and quarantines, the media gave significant attention to parents losing the services of day care and other childcare outside the home. But what about the more than [...]
Overcoming patient objections to care
The data is pretty brutal when it comes to quantifying missed opportunities for providing home-based care to appropriate patients. According to CMS, about 40% of patients discharged from [...]
How will you use telehealth to its full potential?
Telehealth is here to stay. COVID-19’s no-contact demands helped spring the telehealth genie from the bottle, and there’s no going back now. Patients and families love having the option. [...]
How is PDGM working for home health providers?
The first full quarter of using the Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) is in the books for home health providers – but those books were full of unexpected twists and turns due to COVID-19. [...]
Elevating the patient experience through telehealth
In a recent post, this blog space explored just some of the impressive performance and potential emerging through the use of telehealth and other remote care tools. Transcend’s latest podcast [...]
Telehealth: The new frontier for patient care
As COVID-19 created the need to avoid person-to-person contact, telehealth finally started to emerge as an essential tool for staying in touch with patients and families. CMS began to relax [...]
How to lead difficult conversations with families
The COVID-19 pandemic has catapulted serious illness and mortality to the forefront of America’s consciousness. People are hungry for facts and honesty instead of rumors, half-truths and [...]
