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The MediSked Blog

How do you attract and retain home care aides?

Posted by Mike Holihan on Thu, Dec 13, 2012 @ 11:20 AM

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Tags: Home Care Industry, Direct Support Professionals, Provider Agencies

Is there a scheduling solution for direct support staff?

Posted by Mike Holihan on Tue, Nov 13, 2012 @ 04:29 PM

Whether you are a home care or human service agency that has formal schedules or not, chances are you have encountered times when direct support staff has either been late, no-showed, or called off a shift that was assigned to them.  In fact, in our travels to provider agencies across the country, one of the biggest challenges we hear echoed time and again is employee management.  If you are managing direct support staff shifts and schedules via paper, whiteboards, or any other manual method you are not optimizing your reimbursement or revenue potential and more importantly, risking not delivering the highest quality of care.  Here are some reasons why transitioning to an Agency Management Platform, such as Connect, will solve your employee scheduling needs.

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Tags: Direct Support Professionals, Staff Management, Scheduling

This Week is National Direct Support Professional Recognition Week!

Posted by Mike Holihan on Thu, Sep 13, 2012 @ 11:00 AM

Our customers are tireless in their efforts to help provide fulfilling and independent lives to the individuals they serve. This week, Sep 9 - 15, is National Direct Support Professional Recognition Week. We want to thank all of the DSPs for their unselfish and often unrecognized work that they do on a day to day basis. Without them, the common mission of the industry would go unfulfilled.

So thank you DSPs! The work you do really does make a difference!

https://www.nadsp.org/

http://www.nationaladvocacycampaign.org/newsroom/news/dsp-recognition-week-2012

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Tags: Direct Support Professionals, Provider Agencies