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The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new era of skepticism – and even fear – from families regarding the safety and quality of care at facilities such as nursing homes. Mass media focused on major [...]

Staffing shortages are perhaps the single greatest challenge plaguing virtually all healthcare providers these days. It’s a complex problem. Staffing shortfalls – especially in positions [...]

A funny thing happened on the way to marketing hospice and other home-based care. Most providers essentially ignored targeting the actual recipients of their services – patients and their [...]

A lot has changed in healthcare during the past 20 years – especially for providers of healthcare at patients’ homes. Driving much of that change has been the impact of shifting reimbursement [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic has rocked the world of healthcare. Its impact has affected so many facets of the entire healthcare system – starting with hospital overloads and their ripple effect on care [...]

For decades, hospitals have been the top referral source for most providers of post-acute care. Hospices, for example, have long received an average of more than 45% of their referrals from [...]

The blog post you can read below was originally published nearly three years ago. Since then, its content about branding has become more relevant than ever. A growing number of Transcend’s [...]

I have some bad news and some good news. Both are results from a recent national survey of physician office managers regarding their referral practices to providers of home-based care. The bad [...]

We live in a specialized world. We’re not just computer users, we’ve become proficient in either PC or Mac. We may enjoy the eclectic menu of an all-American diner, but we pay premium prices at a [...]

Remote monitoring is becoming increasingly integral to empowering more independent living among seniors, and to enable efficiencies among shrinking ranks of professional caregivers. This blog and [...]