Featured Writers Blog

08 How to Appropriately Use Twitter to Promote Your Home Health Agency
By David Chilcote II, MSW About Twitter Twitter, a free microblogging website, was first created by a 10-person team in San Francisco. First named “Obvious,” Twitter has grown into one of the most successful social networking sites in modern history…...more

13 Creating a Culture of Excellence in Home Health
by Ginny Kenyon Many home care agencies strive for and claim they have excellent services, but rarely do we ever hear a home care agency talk about a culture of excellence - one that sets them apart from other home…...more

07 How to Use Social Media for a Senior Living Search
By Michelle Seitzer, SeniorsForLiving.com These days, lots of retirement communities and home care agencies have a Facebook page. Some even have a Twitter handle, LinkedIn discussion group, YouTube channel, and blog. We’re living in a social media world, and that…...more

16 New Breed of Telehealth Technology Companies Removes Luddites’ Excuses
by Tim Rowan, President, Rowan Consulting Associates Here in early 2012, on the cusp between Medicare’s Home Health Prospective Payment System and the Bundled Payment and Shared Savings plans almost surely to arrive with Accountable Care Organizations, hospital readmission abatement…...more

11 Be A Thorough Housekeeper
by Tom Boyd, Principal, Boyd & Nicholas Recently an industry list serve had much discussion of an agency having to pay unemployment insurance benefits to a RN employee who was fired for falsifying the clinical notes. They reported that fact…...more

10 Using the Word H-E-A-R-T as a Mechanism to Thank and Honor Aides
by Tina Marrelli, MSN, MA, RN, FAAN The week of November 13-19, 2011 has been designated as part of November Home Care and Hospice Month. This may be the perfect time to step back and reflect on these special team…...more

10 Therapy In Home Health: A New Day (How the Senate finance committee's report & findings, regarding home health therapy care & delivery, can affect your agency)
by Arnie Cisneros, PT Dear Reader, Home Health Strategic Management is offering a free webinar regarding the spotlight on therapy relating to reforms, audits, and the Senate Finance Committee's report on abusive therapy practices from the top publicly traded homecare…...more
10 Home Health, Home Care, Hospice: Get Your Agency Off to a Successful Start
by Ginny Kenyon When we start a new home health, home care or hospice business and are experiencing the excitement and exhilaration of the new venture, we seldom remember that we are building beyond the near future. We are also…...more

16 Jennifer Warfield Publishes Her Second Book!
In the second edition of Tips, Tricks & Tidbits for Home Health Professionals, Jennifer Warfield, RN, BSN, HCS-D, COS-C, expands on the clinical and ICD-9-CM coding knowledge that she shared in the first. The new book includes everything you loved…...more
14 High Tech & High Touch Point of Care: How to Improve POC with Touchscreen Tablets
by David Tapia, MBA & Mindy Pillow On September 22, 2011 (11AM-12PM CDT), join home health technology experts David Tapia, MBA and Mindy Pillow as they explore how to improve point of care with touchscreen tablets. Register for this essential…...more

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