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Hospice, Home Health Providers ‘Squeezing Turnips’ Competing for Clinical Staff

Hospice News

Amid workforce shortages, hospice and home health providers are often at a disadvantage when it comes to competing with other health care organizations that can have greater financial resources, according to Bill English, president and CEO of Accurate Home Care.

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The Pros of Home Health Care Over Assisted Living

Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

It’s meeting those in need of home health care where they are at: at home. Pros of Home Health Care. When considering care the two most highly considered options are home health care and assisted living. There are many pros to home health care.

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Mourning Dove Medical CEO Dr. Kaishauna Guidry: Physicians Need a Framework for Understanding Hospice

Hospice News

For example, a patient may be hospice-eligible, but they may come on to home health because that’s all they know about. While they were in home health, nurses would observe them declining clinically, and I would go visit them and talk to them about hospice care or talk to them about our palliative program.

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Will the Real Nurse Please Stand Up? 

Daily Nurse

Have you noticed some nurses looking down on those who choose to be school nurses or work in home health, dialysis, assisted living, medical offices, or ambulatory surgery? Home health nurses may also encounter patients receiving TPN and other complex situations necessitating expertise and highly skilled care.

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Future Leaders: Tej Dhillon, Founder and CEO, Seva Hospice

Hospice News

He really wanted to create an environment in a place that he felt was suitable for his own mother, and so he had purchased an assisted living facility. One day, a home health nurse came into the facility and said, “You should get into home health.” He purchased that because my grandmother had dementia.

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Checking in on your Staff’s Mental Health

Home Care Pulse

Grace had a private home care aide who later followed her to an assisted living, and Grace also received home health and hospice services as the storyline grew.

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Afraid to Leave Hospital Nursing? 

Daily Nurse

Since hospital rotations are what most of us are after, a large number of nursing students probably groan and gripe about a rotation in home health, dialysis, or community health. When we’re in nursing school , it often seems that hospital nursing is the only type of nursing that anyone cares or talks about.

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