Home Health & Hospice Week

Now's the time to advocate for your industry.For home care providers, it's an increasingly difficult world with a lot of competition. But there are opportunities to succeed if you're proactive, said speakers at NAHC's 2012 Annual Meeting & Expo-sition in Orlando, Fla.With impending decreases in reimbursement and ever more complex requirements for documentation, things can look bleak for the industry. But this environment provides an opportunity to "make home health the most important service out there and the solution to the high cost of healthcare, said the National Association for Home Care & Hospice's Mary St. Pierre during a packed Oct. 23 session, "Home Health Regulatory Round Up."Now's the time to improve teamwork, whether it's working with other providers, or within agency care teams, St. Pierre said. Other providers may not realize home care organizations are already able to meet the increased expectations of the current healthcare environment. "We need [...]