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Our blog articles will hopefully prove to be a useful resource in your home health or homecare agency journey.
Private Pay: A Business Guide
There were 55.7 million adults age 65+ living in the U.S. in 2020. This included 30.8 million women and 24.8 million men. Nearly one-quarter (24%) of adults age 65+ were from racially and ethnically underrepresented communities as in 2020. America’s older population has grown by 38% since 2010, compared to an increase of 2% for…
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Staff Loyalty: Culture Wins.
About 10 years ago I went for an interview for an RN position at a home health agency. When I arrived at the agency, the receptionist handed me an application for CNAs. I told her I wasn’t there for a CNA position. I was an RN. Then she gave me the nursing application but with…
Read moreYou Need An Emergency Plan!
Disasters are all around us. As a home health or home care agency, you need to be prepared! Nothing is worse than going to your office and seeing the roof of the building you’re in collapse. Water pouring in all over your records, forms, supplies, or more. The economic and operational losses for an unprepared…
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Build Your Home Care Dream
The home healthcare sector is one of the fastest-growing healthcare industries in the United States. In 2019, there were approximately 1.4 million people employed in home healthcare agencies across the US. There is another option in providing nursing care in the home and that is Private Duty Home Health care. This choice of care provides a few skilled…
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Crafting Success: 10 Steps
Having a successful agency is great! Not too many people can say that they have a successful business. Many people start their agency on the wrong foot and have a hard time getting straight. A home health or home care agency can be profitable over time as long as the owner or manager/administrator focuses on…
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Keeping Manuals Updated
As you start or grow your agency, it is very important to have well-established policy & procedure manuals to guide you and keep you out of trouble. Creating or having a policy and procedure manual will help you better manage your employees, prevent law suites and grow your agency. If you don’t have updated manuals…
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Avoidable Blunders in Care
In this post, I want to take a look at 5 things that can affect the growth and success of your agency. Some of these things you may question if they really can affect the growth of your agency. Let’s look at the 5-Blunders a little more in detail. Not knowing and understanding what a…
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Manuals: Your Agency’s Bedrock
Unlike other industries, where policies and procedure manuals are an option. Home health & home care agencies must have a Policies & Procedures Manual to operate the agency efficiently. Most agencies will need 2-4 manuals to guide and direct the success of the agency or they could be headed for failure in business if they…
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5 Habits of Amazing Leaders
Being a Home Health or Homecare Leader can be stressful if you have never been in a leadership position, and now as the owner or new manager or administrator, you find yourself wondering what to do and how to lead your staff. For me, it was an easy transition to go from field nurse for…
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