by Newworld | Mar 22, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
No sane person will now or ever doubt the clinical value of adult day health care programs. Even regulators are seeing the need to expedite licensing and accommodate entrepreneurs who embrace this business model as the best option for longer-term patient...
by Newworld | Mar 7, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
One of the greatest frustrations for adult day care center operations in some areas is the time it takes to get a person Medicaid approved. This means a person needs your services for months before Medicaid approves them and authorizes the reimbursement of services. ...
by Newworld | Mar 7, 2015 | Blog
As more and more adult day health care programs turn their attention to serving the most medically fragile among us with emphasis less on Medicaid dollars and more on reimbursement for rehabilitation and related more comprehensive services, the look of these centers...
by Newworld | Mar 1, 2015 | Blog
There is nothing negative about compassion driving anyone’s entry into long-term care, especially community based care. The opportunity to help family caregivers manage stress and add to the dignity and safe well-being of the most vulnerable among us is a lofty...
by Newworld | Feb 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
We are hearing more and most about dissatisfaction with adult day care franchise organizations. Complaints range from ineffective marketing to a lack of legitimate, meaningful support for franchisees and an under-developed clinical approach to care delivery overall. ...
by Newworld | Jan 7, 2015 | Blog
For decades the mentally ill and those with developmental disabilities have lived in residential care settings known as adult foster care or similar designations. Let’s be clear these homes have served a valuable purpose. In some cases the residents have been...
by Newworld | Jan 6, 2015 | Blog
All of us are thrilled that the United States Department of Veterans Affairs pays for community based services for disabled veterans. Adult day services are among those benefits. Click Here for a breakdown of community based care services the VA reimburses and how...
by Newworld | Dec 21, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
If you were to ask families what impresses them most about an adult day center’s offerings the responses might be varied. But one guarantee is that most if not all will be concerned about the level of activity available in the center. If they perceive that...
by Newworld | Dec 18, 2014 | Highly Effective American Programs, Training
We are seeing more and more of the residential model adult day care. Some are quite impressive and are plan of care driven and, due to being in residential settings, smaller and thereby more person-centered. Some of these are actually being courted by hospitals as a...
by Newworld | Dec 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
The word is out, adult day care centers are popping up all over the place. And they should be because we need them! Some even lament that it appears people from a certain ethnicity are the ones opening these centers or at least making the effort to do so. Some seem...