The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed budget cuts this year that threaten to wreak havoc on the home health care industry. The new policy, called the Home Health Groupings Model (HHGM), significantly reduces payments to home care providers. If...
WANTED (between now and 2022): 580,000 new personal care aides, 424,200 home health aides, and 312,200 nursing assistants. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is estimating that in the not too distant future, our nation will be in the midst of a caregiver crisis. ...
Have you seen the latest online newsletter from the Joint Commission? It details a number of the “most challenging requirements” for the first half of 2010…in other words, the requirements for which organizations are getting cited. This is great...