Hospice
In hospice care, the patient experience is everything. It’s not just about how an agency measures in numbers or scores—it’s about the team ensuring that the final moments of life are as dignified and comfortable as possible. Imagine the difference between calling your hospice agency in the middle of the night and getting an answering [...]
As a hospice and home health provider, your primary focus is on delivering exceptional care to your patients. However, as your agency grows and resource utilization hits a tipping point, maintaining quality care can become challenging. This is where outsourcing and standardization can play a crucial role in sustaining and enhancing your services. The Tipping [...]
In a recent milestone, IntellaTriage and CommonSpirit Health at Home (CSHaH) announced a significant integration between IntellaTriage’s IntellaHub and CSHaH's electronic medical records system, Homecare Homebase. This partnership underscores the importance of interoperability in healthcare, particularly in post-acute settings like hospice and home healthcare. Here are the top five reasons why interoperability is essential in [...]
For hospice and home health organizations, effective management of triage calls impacts entire care teams and the patients in their care. As anyone in healthcare knows, health concerns and patient inquiries aren’t restricted to a 9 to 5 workday. When staff is unavailable, filling the care gaps involves patient calls routed to a call center or a nurse triage center.
The past 15 years have seen a remarkable transformation in after-hours triage services and the post-acute industry. IntellaTriage has been a pioneering force in after-hours nurse-first triage services, transforming the landscape of post-acute healthcare.
Home health and hospice care are integral components of a patient-centered healthcare system. They emphasize the patient's comfort, individual needs, emotional well-being, and overall quality of life. At IntellaTriage, we celebrate the experience that home health care provides a patient. Learn how we play a part of the home-based care solution.
Outsourcing unlocks the power of dedicated expertise, allowing businesses to tap into an extension of specialized skills and a larger pool of talent and resources to focus on what truly matters to their organization. In the home health and hospice industry, outsourcing services like triage can be a game-changer. Read on to learn more.
Providing continuous patient support, especially during critical moments, is paramount as the hospice and home health industries edge ever closer to more value-based care. One innovative approach to ensuring seamless care is outsourcing after-hours triage services.
Providing access to a nurse on the phone during after-hours can significantly reduce anxiety for patients, caregivers, and nurses, and decrease hospitalizations and urgent care visits. Learn how outsourced triage enhances the emotional experience of those involved in after-hours care from every angle.
As the nation's leading provider of after-hours nurse triage for hospice and home health organizations, we have insights from hundreds of thousands of call metrics that can help you better understand your after-hours triage strategy. Check against these benchmarks to help you determine whether your after-hours program strategy measures up.
UNC Continuing Care Services, a prominent North Carolina home health and hospice organization, struggled with maintaining and recruiting nurses until they began to think about their after-hours triage strategy in an entirely new way.
Nurse retention is essential to maintaining a stable and quality healthcare workforce. While workload, work environment, and professional development opportunities can significantly impact nurse retention, administrators can effectively support nurse work-life balance, reduce burnout, and improve retention by outsourcing triage along with other retention strategies.
