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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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Are you prepared to live up to the promise of caring for more people at home? As you probably know, the National Association of Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and Partnership for Quality Home [...]

America is still in the early phases of the novel coronavirus spread, and the full effect is impossible to predict. Different regions of our nation are already experiencing different degrees of [...]

A recent conversation with Christian Sinclair, MD, AAHPM, regarding prognoses was a real eye-opener for me. Each patient’s prognosis is obviously critical to their plan of care. I had asked Dr. [...]

When we think about the challenges of family caregiving, we often focus on the “caregiving” part – and the fact that many family members are often thrust into healthcare-related roles that [...]

The New England Journal of Medicine recently reported that more Americans are dying of natural causes at home instead of hospitals for the first time since the early 1900s. For those of us who [...]

Any nonprofit organization with 501(c)3 status is obligated to have an active board of directors. The right combination of people on a board can be a major asset to the agency it serves. Yet, [...]