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 [...]
Preparing for a surge in home-based care
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 [...]
How is COVID-19 impacting hospice care?
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 [...]
Improving prognoses for better care
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. [...]
