In March we hosted a webinar about the true cost of caregiver turnover. Thank you again to everyone who attended. On the webinar, our COO, Erik Madsen, discussed how rising turnover rates are impacting home care agencies and what you can do to reduce turnover. [...]
Have you ever wondered what resources you have available to learn more about the home care industry? A reliable source where information about marketing, caregiver turnover, referral sources, finance, sales, and all industry standards are easily accessible? Home Care Pulse has made this possible through the Annual Home Care [...]
We are all gamers. Those of us in our 50’s grew up playing chess, checkers, Monopoly, Life, and other board games. We loved the competition and socialization these games played in our early and adolescent lives. Today, my kids are absorbed in their smartphones. They grew up with games [...]
In our article for the 2016 Home Care Benchmarking Report, we proclaimed that the Caregiver Recruiting and Retention Crisis is official. All of the data we have gathered shows us that if owners and CEOs of home care companies want their businesses to survive and prosper in the long [...]
Phrases like “talent shortage”, “skills gap,” and even “caregiver crisis” are appearing frequently in the news. Demand for caregivers continues to rise and the challenge of finding and hiring them has become a mainstay on the Home Care Pulse Benchmarking study as a top threat. You may feel like [...]
Years ago, I was at a conference where I heard a phrase I’ll never forget: “Ignorance on fire, is better than knowledge on ice.” It was a phrase meant to spark action and get individuals to go out and grow their businesses. Even if you don’t know what you’re [...]
Of all possible referral sources, digital leads can be the most difficult to convert into potential clients. What can you do to make this substantial lead source more efficient and effective? The first step is to not get ahead of yourself. Rather than focusing on converting leads into clients, [...]
Ready or not, here it comes - fewer agencies, bigger brands, better providers. As a national practice solely involved in initiating confidential sales, acquisition searches, and strategic successions within the US home care industry, we enjoy a front row view of the entry and exit moves among investors and [...]
I remember watching Field of Dreams when I was a teenager. At the very end of the movie, after the faith-filled protagonist illogically built a baseball field in the middle of his crop, the camera zooms out to show cars lining up for miles and miles to watch. I [...]
13.8 million people are projected to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s type dementia in 2050. That’s almost double the number of breaths you take in a year and just about the total minutes you will sleep in your lifetime. One out of every nine seniors over the age of 65 [...]