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£1bn shortfall in home care fees required to cover minimum wage, finds provider body’s research

Community Care

There is a £1bn shortfall in home care fees paid and the amount required by providers in England to pay staff the statutory minimum wage, meet other costs and make a “small” profit. On average, councils and health and social care trusts in Northern Ireland paid providers £23.26 on the year before. over the past year.

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Digital Competency Evaluations Can Ease Your Administrative Burden

Relias

The post Digital Competency Evaluations Can Ease Your Administrative Burden appeared first on Relias. A system that keeps you prepared, ensures you stay on top of requirements, validates your staff’s competence, saves time, and reduces risk is the way forward when value-based purchasing actively dictates higher levels of accountability.

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Grow Your Own Home Health Aides To Capture New Business

Relias

Demand for home healthcare continues to rise, and at the same time home health aide staffing remains an ongoing challenge for agency administrators. To ensure you can maximize your share of the home health market, consider developing your own pool of home health aides by training them from the ground up. “We

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Child welfare in Arizona: Don’t believe the spin from the agency where workers called themselves “professional kidnappers.”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Since that time, we have made vast systemic improvements, including reducing entries into care and reducing our out-of-home care population by 24%.” But the problem with “Rule #23” is it only works if newer data are not available – so we have to take the agency’s word for it. Tough luck, DCS: In this case, we have the data.

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Hospice Billing Compliance: The Latest PEPPER Updates

Relias

Jurisdictional or Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC). Routine or continuous home care provided in an assisted living facility. PEPPER provides each hospice organization’s paid Medicare claims for the last three fiscal years. Hospices fall into three different comparison groups: National.

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Importance of Image and Respect for Home Health Recruitment and Retention

Relias

The increased pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic has presented never-before-seen growth opportunities for home health agencies and their workforce, as Bill Dombi, President of the National Association of Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), noted in a December 2021 webinar titled The State of Home Health.

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Councils able to recruit overseas social workers through £15m fund

Community Care

Reducing recruitment barriers The international recruitment fund is designed to reduce barriers to sourcing staff from abroad, particularly for small or medium-sized care providers, including due to administrative complexity and costs. While vacancy rates rose for council adults’ practitioners from 2020-21, from 7.5%