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When Facing Language Barriers, Having the Same Home Care Nurse Improves Outcomes

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After a hospitalization, home healthcare enables patients to recover where they feel most comfortable: in their homes. Nurses visit patients to provide care to keep them at home, given that hospital readmissions cost the U.S. healthcare system more than $41 billion each year.

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Patient Recognition Week: Celebrating Patients Who Live Their Life to the Fullest Thanks to Home Care

Hearts for Home Care

John Letterman with his home care nurse, North Carolina. However, thanks to in-home care, she has not let her diagnosis slow her down! With the support and care from her in-home nursing team, Erin has been attending college at Caldwell Early College and most recently, she was accepted at N.C.

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New Year, New Home Care Wishes for 2022

Hearts for Home Care

Additionally, in the second year of COVID, many state and federal decision makers started to truly understand why home care makes sense: It keeps vulnerable individuals at home and out of potentially-infectious institutions, and it saves Medicaid programs money by doing so. Jill Pelovitz.

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Hearts for Home Care Brings Legislative and Public Awareness to over 43 Million Viewers

Hearts for Home Care

Hearts for Home Care has had a busy year, working to secure public and legislative awareness to home care challenges across the industry.