Home health

With their home health virtual care product, Compassus aims to reduce rehospitalizations among Medicare recipients. The innovation earned the company Gold in the Quality category in the Home Care track...

The majority of adults say that it would be “impossible” or “very difficult” to pay for long-term care, according to the results of a survey by KFF, published last week.

Nursing home care in September once again represented one of the fastest-growing categories of national health spending, second only to spending on prescription drugs, according to Altarum’s monthly...

DHS announces countries eligible for H-2A and H-2B visa programs … Assisted living residents, others, had $1.5 billion+ stolen in a year, DOJ says … Senators, attorneys general defend proposed staffing...

Toledo, OH-based ProMedica last week finalized the long-awaited $710 million sale of its national home health and hospice division to Atlanta-based Gentiva Health Services. The deal had been delayed several...

15 governors tell Biden to reconsider staffing rule … Final home health rule to give agencies 0.8% payment bump … Fitch Ratings affirms Meadowood Corp. at BBB; outlook stable … Attendance on Demand,...

Affordable senior housing operators get $160 million as advocates fight to expand offerings… Bill would block federal nursing home staffing mandate … Home health aides, licensed vocational nurses join...

“July’s growth in health spending on nursing home care and home healthcare remained faster than the broader health spending trends,” Corwin (Corey) Rhyan, research director of health economics and...

A telehealth program out of UCSF has achieved the coveted goal of cutting costs and improving patient care for seniors with dementia, researchers state.

Demand for direct care workers — home care workers; workers in residential group homes, assisted living communities and other residential care; and nursing assistants in skilled nursing facilities —...