Podcasts

As the Hospital-at-Home care model is gaining traction, does your agency have an opportunity to play a role and expand your patient base? In this blog post and embedded podcast, you’ll hear from [...]

Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz said it repeatedly: “There’s no place like home.” When most Americans are sick, they feel that sentiment more deeply. They want to be in their own bed, in [...]

For decades, people with a serious illness or rehab needs have preferred to stay at home if it’s medically possible. And when most people think of “home care” or “home health,” they think of [...]

Not long ago, a palliative care practitioner I was talking with summed up one of the specialty’s conundrums perfectly. He said, “If you ask 10 practitioners of palliative care to define it, [...]

A particularly poignant moment happened during my recent interview with Ronit Elk, PhD. We were discussing her incredibly important research and pilot program delving into culturally based [...]

Even though palliative care has been recognized as a board-certified medical specialty for nearly 15 years, it still may be the most misunderstood and underutilized. Consider it the Rodney [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]