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Rise of the Dutch Model of Neighbourhood Care

AlayaCare

It is there, around the middle of last decade, where a local nurse named Jos de Blok decided to do something about the growing frustration that he and other colleagues felt about having less time for actual patient care. What started as four nurses grew to 12 per squad, responsible for 40-60 people in one geographic area.

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Happy Canada Day to Our Home Healthcare Community!

AlayaCare

In addition to all of that, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on something near and dear to our hearts: the top ten moments in the evolution of the Canadian home care industry that have pushed us forward to where we are today: Ontario establishes home care as part of the formal health care system in 1970.

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Finding your PAC

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Post-acute care (PAC) represents an important component of the healthcare delivery system in the United States, with the Medicare fee-for-service program spending more than $57 billion on these services in 2019 (The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), 2021a). UPAC is associated with aims from IMPACT.

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Turnover reporting: This is going to be good*

The World According to Dr. El

Attending to turnover has the potential to improve quality, reduce certain expenditures, and rehabilitate the public’s image of nursing homes. I’d also suggest attending to the emotional tenor of the nursing home. I’ve been writing about turnover for a long time. Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.,

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2022: What will the technical experts say?

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

The recommended structure could change from current volume-based reimbursement that considers therapy; nursing; and non-case mix to a system based on patient characteristics that considers payments in “buckets” for the following areas: physical plus occupational therapy; speech language pathology; nursing; non-therapy ancillary; and non-case mix.

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Ep.16: 5 Ways to Reduce Employee Turnover

Home Care Pulse

Just a little bit of background from pulling weeds as a child at his father’s nursing, nursing facility to heading up one of the leading research companies in the sector. Chris has spent most of his life in the senior living and skilled nursing industries. And so I would spend so much time at these different nursing homes.

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Gilchrist and Luminis Health Form Joint Venture, Find ‘Sweet Spot’ in Health Care Delivery

Hospice News

It extends the organizations’ existing partnership for hospital-based palliative care services, bringing this care into more settings such as hospitals, physician offices, long-term care facilities and in the home. independent of the JV.