Latest Pdgm Podcast Episodes
Beyond CAHPS: A Look Inside Consumer Experience
Transcending Home Care - May 02, 2024 14:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. When we talk about the shift to value-based care, we talk a lot about concepts like delegated risk, upside and downside bonuses and incentives, and of course, data. On the quality side, we default to using standard patient satisfaction scores and tools as benchmarks for ...
Rapid Response Podcast: Breaking Down the Medicaid 80/20 Rule
Transcending Home Care - April 26, 2024 13:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Tune in to our latest podcast episode for a rapid response to the final Medicaid Access Rule. Join host Tony Kudner and special guest David Totaro of BAYADA Hearts for Home Care as they dissect the implications of the 80/20 rule on home care providers. From understanding...
Improving Care Through Predictive Modeling and Other Data Solutions
Transcending Home Care - March 24, 2024 21:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. How can home health and hospice organizations apply data to provide better patient care? What if data-driven predictive modeling could define with a high degree of certainty that a patient was on the verge of hospitalization … or pinpoint when a patient would die? What ...
Talkin’ Shop: Transcend Staff Chats About the State of Home-Based Care
Transcending Home Care - January 24, 2024 22:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Sometimes it’s good to put two “like minds” in a room and get them talking. You don’t have to ask us twice! Transcend’s Stan Massey and Tony Kudner sit down for a free-flowing conversation about the biggest trends in home-based care over the last 10 to 15 years, and disc...
Keeping Humanity in Healthcare When Data Reigns
Transcending Home Care - November 19, 2023 15:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Data is becoming increasingly engrained and revered in the world of healthcare. And, indeed, data is vitally important in improving medical science, measuring outcomes and proving the value of specific processes. Yet, as data continues to grow in priority, that emphasis...
Building a Solid Value Proposition for a Value-Based World
Transcending Home Care - October 03, 2023 18:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Value is more than a buzzword in home-based care these days. Agencies know that payers, policymakers and consumers are all expecting it in the care they provide. But where should a hospice or home care agency start when thinking about how to demonstrate that value? How d...
Building a Sustainable Palliative Care Program (Part 2)
Transcending Home Care - July 19, 2023 13:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. A financially viable home-based palliative care model is driven by appropriate practices, processes and logistics. A big part of establishing successful parameters comes from starting with a sensible staffing model. What are the right roles in a palliative care start-up...
Growing a Smart Continuum of Care
Transcending Home Care - May 15, 2023 18:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Most healthcare providers – especially providers of care at patients’ homes – started their organizations offering one particular service line. Whether that original service was home health, hospice, private duty nursing or something else, many organizations felt the nee...
Building a Viable Palliative Care Program (Part 1)
Transcending Home Care - March 21, 2023 13:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Due to the historically weak reimbursement stream from CMS for palliative care, providers often have been conflicted with providing this undeniably helpful service and staying out of the red while doing so. Some hospice providers started their palliative care service li...
Building a Sustainable Palliative Care Program (Part 1)
Transcending Home Care - March 21, 2023 13:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDue to the historically weak reimbursement stream from CMS for palliative care, providers often have been conflicted with providing this undeniably helpful service and staying out of the red while doing so. Some hospice providers started their palliative care service line with the mindset that ...
Boosting the Appeal of Careers in Home Care
Transcending Home Care - November 18, 2022 13:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Most providers of home care are struggling with major staffing shortages – especially among nurses, CNAs and social workers. The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new era of professionals reevaluating their careers, resulting in massive job changes and even “the Great Resig...
Season 2, Episode 3: PDGM
Post-acute Clinical Chats - June 01, 2021 16:00 - 14 minutesWhat is the potential impact of PDGM on wound care? Home Health Patient-Driven Groupings Model is not going away. What is your strategy for providing effective and efficient wound healing? In this episode, Tayo Clemmons explores some of the challenges as we move further into PDGM. Chrystalbel...
The Unfolding Impact of Remote Patient Monitoring
Transcending Home Care - May 26, 2021 18:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. It’s no secret that most seniors in America want to maintain their independence for as long as possible. In fact, according to the Disabled Living Foundation, the majority of seniors say they fear losing their independence more than they fear death. For many, a main hal...
Season 2, Episode 2: A talk about biofilm
Post-acute Clinical Chats - May 03, 2021 17:00 - 27 minutesWhat’s the mystery behind biofilm? In this episode, Dr. Tod Brindle addresses some of the myths about what biofilm is and how it affects wound healing. What is your strategy for taking on the biofilm? Tune in to learn what you can do to meet the biofilm challenge. Kim McCarthy interviews Dr. T...
Is the Healthcare System Ready for Hospital-at-Home?
Transcending Home Care - April 05, 2021 16:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. COVID-19 magnified the need and desire for patients to stay out of hospitals if possible. A national survey conducted by Transcend Strategy Group revealed that more than 60% of family caregivers had greater confidence in the quality of care provided at home during the pa...
Season 2, Episode 1: What are HUBS?
Post-acute Clinical Chats - March 23, 2021 00:00 - 9 minutesAre basins still a part of your patient or resident bathing protocol? How can you prevent additional bio-burden through bathing? What if you could get the benefits of antiseptic skin cleansing, a true bath, and a simple delivery system? Tune into this episode to see why facilities are changing t...
Leading Change in Home-Based Care
Transcending Home Care - February 26, 2021 14:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. COVID-19 ushered in an overwhelmingly stronger preference for patients to receive care at home rather than in a facility. A national survey by Transcend Strategy Group revealed that 60 percent of family healthcare decision makers are now more confident that quality care ...
Should nonclinical home care be serving a bigger role?
Transcending Home Care - January 28, 2021 16:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. When most people think of “home care” or “home health,” they think of clinical or skilled therapy services at home. However, as the “Silver Tsunami” of Baby Boomers continue to age, there’s an exponential need for nonclinical home care. By helping with activities of dail...
Helping physicians embrace palliative care
Transcending Home Care - January 04, 2021 15:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Many physicians view palliative care and hospice care as the same service – pain and symptom management for the very end of life. By not referring patients to palliative care early in a disease progression, the patients and their families may be missing out on valuable r...
Can we build hospice for true equality of care?
Transcending Home Care - November 02, 2020 19:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Whatever your opinion of the BLM movement, it has thrust the topic of true equality into a searing national spotlight – and has prompted many of us to reflect more deeply on the issue. In addition to risk factors regarding COVID-19 and minority populations, equality con...
How can palliative care gain the respect it deserves?
Transcending Home Care - October 05, 2020 13:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Palliative care may be the Rodney Dangerfield of healthcare. More accurately, palliative care does get major respect from those who know its value when properly applied – but too few truly understand the power of this specialty. In this conversation with host Stan Masse...
Episode 4: Cleanse and Defend: A Talk about HIBICLENS
Post-acute Clinical Chats - September 10, 2020 16:00 - 13 minutesDoes antiseptic skin cleansing have a place in the contiuum of care? How can CHG be applied beyond the perioperative area? Kim McCarthy interviews Pete Gross to learn more about HIBICLENS®, an antiseptic skin cleanser. Join this episode to learn answer the question “What is HIBICLENS®?” Have a...
Season 1, Episode 4: Cleanse and Defend: A Talk about HIBICLENS
Post-acute Clinical Chats - September 10, 2020 16:00 - 13 minutesDoes antiseptic skin cleansing have a place in the contiuum of care? How can CHG be applied beyond the perioperative area? Kim McCarthy interviews Pete Gross to learn more about HIBICLENS®, an antiseptic skin cleanser. Join this episode to learn answer the question “What is HIBICLENS®?” Have a...
Breaking Down Barriers to Earlier Referrals
Transcending Home Care - August 31, 2020 17:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Providers of home health services, palliative care and hospice care often express disappointment and confusion regarding referral patterns by physicians. Many providers feel physicians don’t refer to them as early as they should or may be missing the full benefits they c...
What innovation is needed for in-home care?
Transcending Home Care - August 03, 2020 14:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. If there are any upsides to COVID-19, catapulting necessary change is one of them. Healthcare already needed innovation before COVID-19 if providers are going to indeed achieve value-based care – and COVID-19 gave a kick in the pants to make some of these changes gain tr...
The growing value of adult day care
Transcending Home Care - July 02, 2020 17:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. COVID-19’s lockdowns and quarantines magnified America’s awareness of social isolation – especially among our seriously ill and elderly populations. Yet social isolation has been a challenge for many seniors long before this pandemic. One valuable tool in overcoming iso...
How is PDGM working for home health providers?
Transcending Home Care - June 01, 2020 12:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Months and months of preparation, training and concern went into preparing home health agencies for the change to PDGM. Now that providers have been using PDGM for more than a full quarter, how are they adapting to the new system? In this conversation with host Stan M...
Elevating the patient experience
Transcending Home Care - May 04, 2020 16:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. With the no-contact demands of COVID-19, telehealth and other remote care tools were thrust into the national spotlight. CMS started to relax certain restrictions regarding telehealth, and the use of video conferences skyrocketed for remote care and communications among ...
How to lead difficult conversations with families
Transcending Home Care - April 13, 2020 13:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Physicians are trained to cure, or at least treat illnesses to stabilize patients and help them enjoy the highest quality of life possible. Perhaps that’s why many physicians struggle with difficult conversations when the prognosis isn’t good … especially a terminal cond...
Improving prognosis for better care
Transcending Home Care - March 05, 2020 14:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Accurate diagnosis and prognosis are crucial in determining a patient’s plan of care. Many look at a prognosis as an “event” – a moment in time when a prediction about a patient’s illness trajectory is made – when it’s really an ongoing process that typically changes ove...
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