by Kristin Rowan | Aug 9, 2024 | Advocacy, CMS, Hospice, Medicare Advantage, Regulatory
by Kristin Rowan, Editor The Alliance On June 18, 2024, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) announced they had met in Washington D.C. to formally sign an affiliation agreement...
by Rowan Report | Jul 19, 2024 | Partner News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Shein (214) 435-6731 cstein@axxess.com Axxess Partners With Security Compliance Associates to Offer Comprehensive Cybersecurity Services to Clients DALLAS, July 11, 2024 – Axxess, the leading global technology...
by Rowan Report | Jun 21, 2024 | Partner News, Vendor Watch
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Stein(214) 435-6731cstein@axxess.com Axxess and SimiTree Partner to Launch Platformsto Empower Home Health and Hospice Growth Key Market, Referral and Utilization Data Available for Streamlined Decision-Making DALLAS, June 20,...
by Kristin Rowan | May 30, 2024 | Admin, Artificial Intelligence, Vendor Watch
by Kristin Rowan, Editor Having a lot of data can help grow your business, streamline processes, improve efficiencies, and make your agency more profitable. But, if you don’t know how to use the data, or simply don’t have the time and man-power to analyze...
by Kristin Rowan | May 30, 2024 | Admin, Advocacy, CMS, Regulatory
by Kristin Rowan, Editor NAHC President Bill Dombi announced at last week’s CAHSAH annual meeting and expo that he would end his tenure at NAHC and retire at the end of 2024. We reached had an interview with Dombi on Thursday, May 23rd. He said he was not...
by Rowan Report | May 10, 2024 | M&A
Bon Secours Mercy Health to Outsource Home Health and Hospice to Compassus Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH), the fifth-largest Catholic health system in the U.S., and Compassus, a leading national provider of home-based health care services, announced on May 2 that...
by Kristin Rowan | May 2, 2024 | Clinical, Regulatory
by Kristin Rowan, Editor Home health agency failed to protect Joyce Grayson History We’ve been following the story of Joyce Grayson since her death in October of 2023. The news was first published in The Rowan Report here on November 8th, 2023.On April 14th, we...
by Kristin Rowan | Apr 18, 2024 | Caring for the Caregiver, Clinical, Regulatory
by Kristin Rowan, Editor In October of 2023, nurse Joyce Grayson went to the home (halfway house) of a released convict. She was later found dead in the basement of the house. In addition to adding focus to home care worker safety, the immediate response to this...
by Elizabeth E. Hogue, Esq. | Apr 11, 2024 | Clinical, Regulatory
By Elizabeth E. Hogue, Esq. A key purpose of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is certainly to protect patient information. Another is to help ensure that patients have access to their health information. In fact, the Office of Civil...
by Tim Rowan | Apr 11, 2024 | Clinical, Editorial, Telehealth
by Tim Rowan, Editor Emeritus In 2020, doctors flooded telehealth companies with requests for help caring for patients reluctant to leave home to come to their appointments. Following suit, many Home Health agencies that had never considered investing in home...
