Home Health 360: Presented By AlayaCare

Send us Fan Mail Training home care agency care workers fast and well is the key to delivering the care we would want our loved ones to receive. We sat down with caregiver education and training experts from one of our partners, Nevvon, Allan Levine (SVP of Growth and Revenue) and James Cohen (CEO), to talk about how agencies can enhance their business through efficient caregiver training. Listen...

Send us Fan Mail With a healthy dose of inspiration, as we approach the end of 2022, we welcomed who we’d put in the running for “most interesting man in home care”, Jeff Salter founder and CEO of Caring Senior Service. Last year, Jeff launched a nonprofit foundation called “Close the Gap in Senior Care” to bring awareness to overlooked aspects of senior care. To kick-start fundraising Jeff rode h...

Send us Fan Mail Growth is a top priority among home care providers, even during difficult economic times. Providers are making significant strides in positioning home-based care as an essential component of the broader health care continuum, but there still is a way to go.  On Oct 4th, 2022, Home Health Care News, in partnership with AlayaCare, hosted a webinar: “Growth Strategies for Home Care A...

Send us Fan Mail Kevin Mistry, VP of Sales at Caribou, shares how incentive programs can be the key to help caregivers shape their behaviour and help curb the challenge of caregiver recruitment and retention. He discusses how rewarding behaviours with performance-based rewards can lead to bigger outcomes down the line for agencies. “For every dollar you put into a rewards program, you get more pro...

Send us Fan Mail Recruiting the best caregivers can be a challenge when the demand for care workers is so high in the home care industry. According to our 2022 report with HHCN on recruitment and retention, 61% of participants reported that their agency increased recruiting efforts. In this episode, we sit down with Mike McSherry, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Hierology to chat about how h...

Send us Fan Mail Home Care is on the rise across the globe but how much do families actually know about what home care can offer? We sat down with Craig Gear, CEO of Older Persons Advocacy Network (OPAN), which delivers information, education and individual advocacy services to older folks throughout Australia.  From education services to webinars, OPAN helps those interested in home care and/or r...

Send us Fan Mail Through a survey on linkedin, we found that 57% of caregiver turnover comes in the first 90 days on the job. Home health and executive leadership consulting expert Stephen Tweed , founder of Home Care CEO Forum , shares his insights and expertise on home health strategies for growth and caregiver recruitment/retention.  Stephen, dives into the causes of the 90 day turnover and str...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we welcome Alex Green, founder of Radfield Home Care UK one of the fastest growing home care franchises in the UK. Alex describes how Radfield developed their very own home care franchise aptitude test to assess whether home care franchising is right for your organization, and how home care organizations can build their business. Listen to learn more. If you liked...

Send us Fan Mail Home Care franchises are a growing industry and experts don’t see the expansion slowing down anytime soon! So, what makes the home care franchise industry so successful? This week, we have two of the top executives from one of the largest and most successful home care franchises in the U.S., Firstlight Home Care. Hear from VP of Strategy, Kerri Pendley , and the Firstlight’s new P...

Send us Fan Mail A.I. technology in home care back-office software is increasingly guiding organizations to better outcomes by helping find solutions to challenges such as caregiver recruitment and retention, optimal scheduling, and more. AlayaCare’s VP of AlayaLabs , Noami Goldapple is our guest in this week’s podcast to talk about solving the current caregiver staffing crisis with artificial int...

Send us Fan Mail Some states have an advanced self directed attendant care program where neighbours for relatives who are already acting as caregivers can be an extended workforce for home care agencies. New York State’s program is called CDPAP (Consumer Directed Personal Attendant Care Program). On this episode, we welcome Denise Tripodi , Vice President of the NY LHCSA Shared Services at Persona...

Send us Fan Mail 2021 has seen an explosion of transactions for home health mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Healthcare mergers and acquisitions are in no short supply as providers, health tech companies, payers and other industry players look to expand their businesses and gain a competitive edge. On this episode, we welcomed health law experts Kiernan Ignacio and Les Levinson from Robinson +...

Send us Fan Mail Jane Townson, CEO of HomeCare Association in the UK, chats to us about the differences in home care from across the pond where she dives into the differences in home health system funding in the UK, common issues agencies face and what’s being done to overcome them. With years of experience under her belt, Jane shares insights on trends into the future of home health care and what...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Home Health 360, we sit down with Tim Craig , the VP and Chief Content Director for Lincoln Healthcare Leadership, to chat about home health care conferences and where he is seeing the future of home care moving. If you liked this episode and want to learn more about all things home-based care, you can explore all our episodes at alayacare.com/homehealth360 . 

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, we had the pleasure of chatting with LaNita Knote (VP of Clinical Excellence) and Nikki Holles (VP of HR) from Right at Home that has many franchises all over the globe from the North America to Japan.  These two industry experts talk about the challenges and growth of the franchised home care industry, and dive into important topics such as achieving clinical exc...

Send us Fan Mail Children’s needs differ to adults when it comes to home care, yet regulations for adult home care are the same for pediatrics. The pediatric home care space is expanding and undergoing their own challenges amid the pandemic. To talk about the challenges and growth opportunities in pediatric home care, we are joined by guests Chani Feldman , Chief Clinical and Government Affairs Of...

Send us Fan Mail Navigating the Pandemic wasn't easy for anyone, let alone being a care agency that had to manage the first COVID death in the United States, and everything that came after. Learn from Molly McDonald , Program Manager for Quality & Regulatory Compliance, and Brent Korte , the Chief Home Care Officer, how they overcame these new challenges and how they are adapting these le...

Send us Fan Mail Guest host Erin Vallier sits down with Jeff Wiberg, CEO of Family Resource Home Care and Kunu Kashal, founder and CEO of Senior Solutions Home Care to talk about the home care market and how home care has changed since the pandemic.  A lot of the conversations about Home Care prior to the pandemic focused around data, outcomes, and value to healthcare systems and payors. Jeff and...

Send us Fan Mail Guest host Erin Vallier sits down with Scott Roberts, VP Operations at AccentCare and Jesse Howard, Area Vice President at Girling Community Care to talk about the evolution of staffing in personal care services. With the employment of personal care aides projected to grow 33% in the next 10 years, leaders need to know how to handle the demand. Scott and Jesse give us their insigh...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, our guest host, Erin Vallier sits down with Lourdes Wiley, Clinical Educator and Nurse Consultant, and Irina Gorovaya, Home Health Consultant, Educator, and Founder of Amity Healthcare Group.  Lourdes and Irina dive into the importance of staff training and competency programs in home health agencies. Specifically, how to change the common negative perceptions of...

Send us Fan Mail With the nationwide home care worker shortage, how do you ensure a high quality of care for your clients? Guest host, Erin Vallier gets the answer as she sits down with two home care industry veterans, Neal Kursban , CEO at Family & Nursing Home Care and Bob Roth , Managing Partner at Cypress HomeCare Solutions . Neal and Bob give us insight into the fast changing industry of...

Send us Fan Mail We sit down with Michael Slupecki , CEO, and Shelley Kanther , VP Marketing at Griswold Home Care . They talk about the long history of Griswold as the older non-medical home care franchise in the US and the recent revamping of their marketing team to focus on attracting new franchisees and caregivers.  Michael and Shelley touch upon the importance of supporting their franchisees...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we sit down and chat with Lucy Campbell, CEO of the multi-award winning Right at Home UK. Lucy gives us a glimpse into the UK home care landscape and goes over some of the amazing work Right at Home UK has done recently.  Lucy and Jeff touch on topics from Brexit’s impact on caregiver recruitment and how Right at Home UK has been tackling this challenge to how hom...

Send us Fan Mail Our host, Jeff Howell takes the show on the road at the recent HHCN Home Care Conference on December 8th, 2021 in Chicago. In between sessions, Jeff managed to speak with other attendees and get some great insights about the current US home care landscape.   In this bonus episode, we dig into the current issues and new opportunities in 2022. Expanding on the session, Emerging tren...

Send us Fan Mail Lane Kofoed , President & CEO, and Dan Durney , Director of Franchise Development for Assisting Hands Home Care sit down with us to share their expertise in the home care franchise space.   Lane and Dan explain the framework of their 4 level franchise model that has helped grow Assisting Hands. They also go into the benefits of ramping up franchises slowly and common mistakes...