Altoona, PA — July 30, 2013 — Delta Health Technologies®, LLC announced the launch of a new website and reactivated Delta Connect Blog at www.DeltaHealthTech.com. According to Delta President and CEO Keith Crownover, the recent update reflects the company’s restructuring of its product offerings. In addition to providing detailed product information, the new website […]
by Liz Seegert New care models, partnerships and patient-centered care were frequent topics at last month’s World Health Care Congress. One panel discussion, featuring executives from the Joselin Diabetes Center, Mass General Hospital, Texas Health Resources and Kaiser Permanente, explored mobile apps, ACOs, connectivity among providers, payers, and consumers, and innovations to encourage consumers […]
by Liz Seegert Many sessions at this month’s World Health Care Congress focused on partnerships. Collaboration is a word we in post-acute care will hear a lot in the coming years, as primary care providers are forced to transition from fee-for-service to an outcomes-driven approach. Patient-centric care and innovation were top of mind when […]
April 23, 2013 New York, NY — Home Health Connected (homehealthconnected.com), a social platform focused on fostering better communication across the home health industry, officially launched today. Home Health Connected is designed to enable home health professionals opportunities for greater collaboration through a stronger social forum that can expand from around the country to […]
Shane Nesler Joins Delta Health Technologies® as Sales Engineer Altoona, PA — March 26, 2013 — Delta Health Technologies®, LLC announced today the hire of Shane Nesler for the position of Sales Engineer. The announcement was made by Delta President and CEO Keith Crownover. Nesler will work with and support Delta’s team of sales executives […]
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) is urgently requesting input from every provider agency regarding the potential impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirement that certain employers pay a penalty when they do not provide a qualified health plan to employees. NAHC’s efforts to alert the home […]
by H. Carol Saul Almost fifteen years ago, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) adopted a final rule requiring home health agencies (HHAs) to post surety bonds in the amount of $50,000, or 15% of the annual amount received from Medicare, whichever was greater. That regulation quickly faced opposition by Congress and by […]
What we in healthcare have been watching for more than a year finally broke through into the mass media on Monday, October 1, the day Medicare began to issue penalties to hospitals with high readmission rates. Thick books, lengthy blogs and hours of conference presentations were compressed into a few paragraphs for public consumption. […]
Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) has announced a plan to fund and spearhead the development of a fall risk assessment tool for home health agencies. To lead the effort, the Santa Barbara, California firm will create a position for a qualified project manager. Details on how SHP CEO Barbara Rosenblum developed a home health industry-specific tool […]
by Liz Seegert With one political convention wrapping up this week and another beginning Monday, we assigned staff writer Liz Seegert to study the published platforms of each party and analyze how home care and hospice would be affected if the Medicare sections of either platform were to become law. First up, the Republican Party […]
