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Private Duty Can Help Avoid Rehospitalization for Heart Failure Patients
By Stephen Tweed, CSP What are the biggest opportunities you see out there for growing your private pay, non-medical home care business? What referral sources bring you the highest numbers of referrals, and the clients with the greatest need for home care services?We've been writing and speaking recently about the opportunities for home care companies to develop specialty programs that focus on caring for clients with multiple chronic conditions. One of the most frequent chronic conditions among the elderly is CHF - Congestive Heart Failure. |
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Is Accreditation Right for You?
By Jill Scott, Manager of Member Services
 One of the growing trends in private duty home care is the accreditation of home care companies to demonstrate their commitment to quality of care. In fact, the NC Division of Medical Assistance will require agencies to become accredited in private duty nursing only by March 2014. The Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) was one of the first accrediting agencies to establish quality standards for private duty home care that are separate from the standards for home health care. Further, for certain programs and services, Medicare requires organizations to become accredited by an approved accreditor like ACHC before they are able to participate with Medicare.
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Join Us in Raleigh NC for "Serving More Clients"
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LinkedIn Group Update
 We are very excited to see that our discussion group, The Leading Home Care Network on LinkedIn has reached 4,700 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.
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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.
Permission to Reproduce. Articles from this issue may be reprinted by home care companies and home care associations. Permission is granted provided that the author and publication are given credit, and provided that the article is used verbatim in its entirety. All reprints must be accompanied by a mention of our website, at www.leadinghomecare.com and/or www.privatedutyacademy.org. Reprints of articles published online must have a link. Other use of this content is available with written permission only. To request permission, please email Jill@leadinghomecare.com. |
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Issue Number
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October 9, 2013
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All live web conferences are from 4:00 - 5:00 pm eastern time, unless otherwise noted.
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NEW Webinar Recordings in the Academy Store!
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The following web conference recordings have been added to the Academy Store: |
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SERVING MORE CLIENTS
1-DAY LIVE WORKSHOP
October 25, 2013
Raleigh, NC
| For our last Serving More Clients workshop of 2013, we are teaming up with ACHC to bring you our workshop the day following their Private Duty Accreditation Workshop. Register for both days and receive a $100 discount on your registration fees!
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.
No one else in this industry has the information that you will gain when you come to this unique, high-impact learning program. Not only will you get the benefit of the information provided by our faculty, but you'll have the opportunity to network and exchange ideas with other successful private duty business owners.
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