Healthcare is an incredibly stressful career field. Caregivers constantly face things others could never even dream of, and providing care in a home-based setting adds to that stress. Caregivers in home-based settings work most of their time independently, develop a closer relationship with the patient and family, and often work long hours. To prevent burnout, caregivers need to maintain an excellent work-life balance. We share below some strategies to help maintain a good work-life balance:

Many families and elderly patients are now increasingly considering Hospital-at-home and SNF-at-home models. Private Duty Nursing Home Care agencies are uniquely positioned to take advantage of this trend and grow. Private Duty Nursing Agencies can partner with Hospital Systems or Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) to provide skilled care at home.

Leveraging technology and the right software platform will help Private Duty Nursing Home Care Agencies to implement strategies to effectively manage Electronic Medication and Treatment Administration and ensure patient safety.

New nurses, CNAs, and caregivers can often feel lost and overwhelmed due to the immense responsibility they now hold for sometimes critically ill patients. Lack of proper support through these new challenges can lead to employee burnout, job dissatisfaction, and decreased patient care. There are countless benefits to supporting new clinicians, including increased employee retention, increased employee referrals, and improved patient care.

Private Duty Home Care agencies can use the right technology and software platform to manage the challenges posed by unique and demanding requirements of providing skilled care at home. Using the right tools will enable home health care agencies to bring operational efficiencies to the organization and take advantage of these new opportunities.

Comprehensive, consistent, and complete clinical documentation is critical for home health care agencies for the quality of care to the patient and optimum reimbursement. Improving the quality of clinical documentation will significantly enhance the quality of care and patient satisfaction while reducing the risk of compliance issues during surveys. Compliance issues during the survey may lead to reimbursement delays or reductions.

Home Health Care Agencies should implement Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) programs to understand that clinical documentation starts at referral and must be managed throughout patient care (Admit through Discharge).

Home Health Care Agencies can adopt payer diversification strategies to mitigate the impact of reimbursement cuts by diversifying the payer mix and services offered. Diversifying the payer mix will reduce volatility in revenue and mitigate the impact of reimbursement cuts for the agencies.

Seamless flow of operational data for payroll processing is key to improving the timeliness and accuracy of the payroll process. This can also reduce the workload for the payroll group. The payroll process starts when the shift is scheduled, not just on payroll day.

This blog highlights some of the challenges that private duty nursing agencies face in processing payroll and discusses potential solutions that integrated software can provide.

HHVBP represents the most significant change to provide incentives (or penalties) to Medicare Certified Home Health Agencies to give higher quality and more efficient care. This blog reviews the must-have functionalities in your home care agency management software platform to help you succeed in the HHVBP Model.

CareVoyant’s partnership and integration with Waystar demonstrates our commitment to providing operational excellence for our Home Health Agencies, Private Duty Nursing Home Care Agencies, Private Duty Non-Medical Home Care Agencies, Outpatient Therapy providers, and Medical Billing Services providers.

There are millions of people who serve as caregivers. Whether they work for a private duty nursing services provider, work for a home care agency, or work independently taking care of a family or friend who might need extra assistance, it is imperative to find someone who has the traits necessary to do a job well done.

HHVBP represents the most significant change to provide incentives (or penalties) to Medicare Certified Home Health Agencies to give higher quality and more efficient care. Home Health Agencies must review processes to monitor quality outcomes and adjust as needed.

Documenting care from memory or using the notes taken at the patient's home even after a few hours may lead to incomplete documentation due to decreased memory retention. With all the responsibilities put on clinicians and caregivers – Multiple Patient Visits, Communication with physicians and other team members, etc. – retention of learned information will decline during the first 24 hours. Home Health Care Agencies should strongly encourage clinicians to document at the patient's home and provide the tools necessary to make it easy and intuitive.

The software platform will play a critical role in helping Home Health Agencies to implement OASIS-E changes. Agencies should check with their software vendors to understand their plans to accommodate OASIS-E, make sure their plan will meet the requirements, and adjust their process accordingly.

This blog reviews the functions needed to support your transition to OASIS-E.

In this blog, we will review OASIS-E changes, the impact of these changes, and how the agencies should prepare for these changes.

Private Duty Nursing is different from your traditional home health as it requires skilled care for medically fragile patients. The care is typically provided in longer shifts from 8 to 12 hours and for a limited number of patients over a longer period of time. In the Private Duty Nursing field, the nurse or LPN gets to know the patient as a person and can really become quite attached to their patient. The care provided can be in multiple settings such as the patient's home, school, or even a group home setting.

In the third article in the series on how home care agencies can navigate staffing challenges, we look at how scheduling, communications, clinical documentation, alerts and validations at the point of care must integrate on one platform to help you utilize resources optimally.

In this second article in the series on how home care agencies can navigate staffing challenges, we look at how efficient authorization management and scheduling can help home care agencies to get the most out of limited resources.

Even though home care agencies use software for clinical documentation, they still face challenges in meeting consistent and quality documentation requirements in compliance with the physician's orders and plan of care. In this article.

At CareVoyant, we have a strategic focus on improving operational efficiency and have made it a central theme of our development efforts. We empower home care agencies with features that will help them do more with less across care coordination, scheduling, and revenue cycle management functions. This article looks deeply at how each functional area can contribute to optimal reimbursement and accelerate cash flow.

Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) provide Medicaid beneficiaries opportunities to receive services in their own home or community rather than institutions or other isolated settings. These programs serve various targeted population groups, such as people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, and mental illnesses.