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03.27.2023

What is the purpose of QAPI?

Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) is a vital aspect of the healthcare industry. It is a process that aims to improve the quality of care and services provided to patients.

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Staff Shortage

03.22.2023

Leadership Shortage Heroes: 3 Ways Interim Leaders Keep Agencies Afloat

As the healthcare industry continues to experience rapid growth and transformation, there is an increasing need for interim management to fill leadership roles within agencies.

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Retain Employees

03.22.2023

Navigating Competitive Times in Healthcare: SimiTree’s 4 Ways to Attract & Retain Top Talent

SimiTree’s 4 Ways to Attract & Retain Top Talent The home health, hospice, and behavioral health industries are facing unprecedented challenges in finding and retaining talent in a highly competitive…

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Top Tips for Successful Home Health Agency Mergers

03.22.2023

Top Tips for Successful Integration: Advice all home health, hospice, and behavioral health agencies need

Acquisition activity in both the home health, behavioral health, and hospice sectors continues to outpace activity in other healthcare sectors, with a record number of transactions in recent years.

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Comparing Medicare & Medicare Advantage for Home Health Providers

03.17.2023

Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage: What Home Health Agencies Need to Know

The Difference Between Medicare and Medicare Advantage In this blog post, we explore the differences between Medicare and Medicare Advantage coverages and, most importantly, how to not lose money when dealing…

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Infinity Announces New Name, Now SimiTree Behavioral Health

03.16.2023

Infinity Announces New Name, Now SimiTree Behavioral Health

LAUDERDALE LAKES, Fla. – Infinity, an industry-leading provider of business solutions for behavioral health organizations, is pleased to announce that it has changed its name to SimiTree Behavioral Health.

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02.01.2023

End of Public Health Emergency (PHE): May 11

The nation’s COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) is coming to an end May 11, according to an announcement made Jan. 30 by the Biden administration.

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01.27.2023

SimiTree Senior Manager literally wrote the book on OASIS-E – and the new HCS-O study guide

By Claudia Baker, RN, MHA, HCS-D, HCS-O Senior Manager, Clinical Operations Consulting Home health is abuzz with OASIS-E questions on BIMS scoring, the criteria for differentiating continuous and intermittent oxygen, guidelines for IV…

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01.27.2023

CMS publishes hospice survey changes with guidelines for surveyor training

After months of anticipation, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has just made available revisions to Hospice-Appendix M of the State Operations Manual (SOM) and the Hospice Basic…

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