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5 Resources Your Home-Based Caregivers Need
Caregivers need more than just financial resources to be successful at work. As the saying goes, “You can’t pour from an empty cup.” According to recent financial statistics, one in six caregivers is living in poverty. Traditionally, poverty has only been looked at...
9 Experts Reveal How Agencies Can Reduce Caregiver Burnout
The annual turnover rate in the home caregiver profession is around 65%, and while the reasons for that figure are complex, burnout is a top cause. Agencies that hope to recruit and retain caregivers will need to understand the factors that contribute to caregiver...
5 strategies to up your game as a home care administrator
Home care administrators are in the unique position of needing to hold both a micro and a macro perspective to succeed in a challenging role. Administrators must successfully balance supporting direct care workers with processes and care concerns, while also...
Types of Continuing Education for Nurses: What Home Health Agencies Need to Know
Understanding the ins and outs of continuing education for nurses is critical for home health agencies. Considering the central role nurses play in home health agencies, it’s important to support them in maintaining compliance with their licensure. Providing quality...
Establishing a Virtual Home Care Office: 9 Key Factors to Consider When Going Virtual
With every passing season and surge, the COVID-19 pandemic is becoming increasingly part of business as usual. As we all know, this is leaving the fate of physical office spaces across industries in limbo. While it seems things will never be the same as they once...
9 Steps to Building Your Most Enthusiastic Care Team Yet
14 Best Apps for Home Health and Home Care Agencies in 2022
With home care becoming more critical than ever, home health care agencies rely on the latest technology to keep their caregivers organized, engaged, and safe. From recruiting and payroll to back office management and training, there’s an abundance of apps to choose...
Honoring Direct Care Workers on National Caregivers Day
Today is National Caregivers Day! Celebrated on the third Friday of February, this day honors and thanks individuals across home health, home care and hospice (and we’re including family caregivers!) who selflessly provide personal care, as well as physical and...
EVV Systems for Home Care and Home Health: Everything Agencies Need to Know
Electronic verification visits were created to ensure that home health care services are being performed for the right patients, and that providers are billed only for services completed. In 2016, Congress approved the 21st Century Cures Act to incentivize home care...
Podcast: Outlook for 2022—High-Quality Healthcare Starts With High-Quality Education
In this episode, we welcome CareAcademy's very own Founder and CEO, Helen Adeosun. Helen shares themes we will be exploring as a company and industry in 2022, including recognizing education as a healthcare intervention and the critical need to provide education and...
Podcast: Recruiting and Retaining Caregivers—Effective Strategies in a Competitive Environment
In this episode, we welcome Pete Morrissey, home care leader and owner of Right At Home of Gainesville, Georgia. Drawing on his business background before entering home care, Pete shares innovative approaches for recruiting and retaining caregivers in today’s...
8 Home Care Trends To Watch For in 2022 (And Thoughts From 14 Experts)
While home care continues to face staffing challenges, the demand for home care is on the rise. With an aging generation of baby boomers, the home care industry’s historic low wages, and the burnout that often comes with providing care, the struggle to find quality...
5 Ways to End Your Caregiver Recruitment and Retention Nightmare
Pete Morrissey Right At Home, GeorgiaNearly all home care agency owners and operators feel the mounting pressure to recruit and retain caregivers in a competitive market. Data from PHI suggests that from 2018 to 2028, this workforce will add an estimated 1.3 million...
Podcast: Education Pathways for Caregivers—An Untapped Opportunity for Employers
In this episode, we welcome Jessica Jones, Care Experience Outcomes Manager at CareAcademy. Jessica led our recent caregiver research report, “Education Pathways for Caregivers: An Untapped Opportunity for Employers.”After conducting a survey of 1,500 direct care...
66 Best Caregiver Interview Questions for Agency Owners
Home care aides had some of the highest turnover rates in the healthcare field in 2020, coming in at about 36%, according to Home Health Care News. Rehiring and searching for applicants can quickly drain resources. However, by asking the right interview questions, you...
Agencies: Tuition Reimbursement is an Untapped Caregiver RETENTION Lever
Home care agencies: You have one important lever available to use in the fight to keep your caregivers longer – tuition reimbursement. According to just-launched CareAcademy research, “Education Pathways for Caregivers: An Untapped Opportunity for Employers,” 85% of...
Caregiver Recruitment: 20 Experts Share Their Top Strategies
The home health care sector is projected to add about 1.2 million jobs by the year 2030, which makes it one of the fastest growing occupations. Yet many home health and home care agencies are struggling with caregiver recruitment. To keep up with demand, agencies will...
Podcast: Your Questions Answered—Navigating Vaccine Mandates in Home Care
Welcome to CareAcademy’s Home Care On-Air! Join us on this podcast journey as we help accelerate home care towards the future.In this episode, we welcome Erika Sessions, Director of Compliance & Policy Development at CareAcademy. Hundreds of participants attended...
3 Ways to Manage Caregivers from Every Generation
Home care providers are an age diverse population, who today may fall into as many as five distinct generational groupings, from gen z to baby boomers. Given the broad range of people who pursue caregiving work, it is common for home care agencies to have...
8 Ways Agencies Can Better Manage Caregiver Stress
Home health care can be a high-stress occupation. Most caregivers work long hours, in sometimes poor conditions, to provide bathing, dressing, feeding, and cleaning, plus much-needed companionship and emotional support to their patients. Despite this, one in six home...
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