It is predicted that a vast majority of baby boomers will choose—or have no choice—but to age in place in their current homes, creating a significant demand on in-home supportive devices.

Changes during the past few years have had a major impact on the independent home medical equipment provider.

In health care, we are all too familiar with the economic principle of scarcity. There is scarcity everywhere you look. The scarcity of registered nurses is well documented, and it is forecast to get worse as baby boomers retire.

With the implementation of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) looming on the horizon, it is time for home health agencies (HHAs) to thoroughly assess operations, from patient intake to discharge, and to introduce quality cycle management (QCM) to the entire organization.

Many people have heard about how baby boomer business owners will be retiring and the wave of business successions/exits that will occur as a result of those retirements.