What is your Experience with Lead Generating Web Sites?
By Stephen Tweed, CSP
 
What is your experience with web sites that are designed to generate leads for home care companies?

Have you used these lead generating web sites in the past year, and what is your experience?

Lead Generating Web Sites are sites like ElderCareLink, A Place for Mom, Care.com, and others.
 
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Home Care Franchise Companies Growing at an Amazing Pace
By Stephen Tweed, CSP
 
Who are your major competitors in your localSCT Head Photo market?  If you are like many home care companies across the US and Canada, your major competitor is most likely a franchise.

According the the latest research conducted by Leading Home Care and The Academy for Private Duty Home Care�, there are now 57 companies selling franchises in the private duty home care space, with a total of more than 6400 active locations.  The top ten companies account for 4513 local franchises.

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What is an Employment Practices Claim?
By David Dickie, President, The Solutions Group

Solutions Group 120-240 banner We see tremendous confusion in the home care community with regard to employment practices claims, most particularly: What is an employment practices claim? What insurance policy covers such things? And what typical scenarios in home care lead to claims?


An employment practices claim is an employee action against an employer for damages due to any of the following:
  • Wrongful Termination
  • Discrimination (Age, Race, Sexual Orientation)
  • Workplace Harassment
  • Employment Related Defamation
  • Invasion of Privacy
  • Retaliation
  • Violation of FMLA
  • Breach of Written Employment Contract
 
LinkedIn Group Update
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We are very excited to see that our discussion group, The Leading Home Care Network on LinkedIn has reached 4,300 members.  This group has grown steadily over the past year, the continues to experience great interactive discussions.

Here are some of the most recent discussions in the group: 

This is a closed group, and membership is limited to leaders in home health, hospice, and private duty home care companies.  We do not allow vendors, recruiters, or people who are not related to home care.  This limited membership means that all of the posts are relevant to you and the things that you are interested in reading and discussing.  

ABOUT US
Private Duty Today is the leading electronic newsletter for owners, CEOs, and administrators of private pay, non-medical home care companies in the US and Canada.  This newsletter is published by Leading Home Care ... a Tweed Jeffries company.

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Issue Number
249
July 17, 2013
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