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The Perfect Storm Hits Private Duty Caregivers
By Stephen Tweed, CSP
 Imagine being a caregiver working for a private duty home care company today. You're out there in the ocean as three major storms come together and the waves are crashing over you. (Did you see the movie The Perfect Storm with George Clooney?)
The first storm is Health Care Reform, or "Obamacare". Effective yesterday, October 1, 2013, caregivers could begin signing up to buy health insurance for their state health insurance exchange. They must purchase health insurance by January 1, 2014 or pay a penalty.
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What Caregivers Need to Know ... to provide specialized programs
By Stephen Tweed
 One of the ways you can create competitive advantage in private duty home care is to create one or more specialty programs focused on providing services to clients with a specific chronic condition. For example, several weeks ago we presented a live web conference with Katherine Autin on "Building a Specialty Program to Serve Patients with Parkinson's". In that program, Katherine talked about the things a caregiver needs to know about the disease, and about the clients. Read More...
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Upcoming Live Web Conferences
All live web conferences are from 4:00 - 5:00 pm eastern time, unless otherwise noted.
CQA Web Conferences
Academy for Private Duty Home Care Web Conferences
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Video of the Month: Recruiting and Selecting Caregivers
This week's video is from the People Pillar and the Operating Level, and we look at the process of recruiting and selecting caregivers. As the economy improves and your business takes off, staff shortages will become a major obstacle to growing your business.
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Upcoming Events:
"What Your Caregivers Need to Know to Provide Disease Specific Programs and Services"
With Ginny Kenyon of Kenyon Home Care Consulting
October 10, 2013
4:00 pm EST
In this unique, interactive web conference, Ginny Kenyon will describe in detail what your caregivers need to know to deliver disease specific care, and how you can create specialty training for these disease state programs.
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Serving More Clients Workshop
October 25, 2013
Cary, NC
In these times of turbulent change in home care, the strongest, fastest growing companies will survive. In this high impact, interactive workshop, Stephen Tweed will share with you the latest insights from research conducted by Leading Home Care, and from the Private Duty Benchmarking Study conducted by Home Care Pulse. Then he will guide you in developing a highly effective sales, marketing, and public relations strategy to get more referrals, convert more admissions, and serve more clients. Read more and register today!
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Private Duty Field Trip
November 6-7, 2013
Louisville, KY
ElderCare 4 Families
The Private Duty Field Trip is a unique experience where you and eleven other owners will have the opportunity to spend one full day inside a $3 million + private duty business. The owners will show you through their offices, introduce you to key team members, describe their organization structure, and show you their internal processes. Read more and register today!
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