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		<title>In Home Health and Private Pay, It’s All About The Numbers.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you’re driving someplace you’ve never been before.  You don’t have a map or a GPS but you do have a sense of where you are going.  Instinct tells you to turn right and then left and then right again, but you end up miles from where you wanted to be.  Hours later, you arrive  <span class="read_more"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="normallink">Read More &#62;</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>New Healthcare Provisions for Young Adults May Impact Your Staff and Clients.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting in September 2010, a provision in the new healthcare legislation will make it possible for young adults to remain on or be added to their parent’s health insurance plans until they turn twenty-six.  While this may not directly impact your Home Health and Private Pay clients, it is possible some of your clients may  <span class="read_more"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="normallink">Read More &#62;</a></span>]]></description>
		<link>http://kenyonhcc.com/new-healthcare-provisions-for-young-adults-may-impact-your-staff-and-clients/</link>
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		<title>Quality:  Worth the Extra Mile In The Private Pay Marketplace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quality can be elusive. Definitions tend to vary from person to person, and often what is considered excellent by one is just a variable in perception by another. Yet we all know quality is a key ingredient to business success. Years of experience have taught me that even elusive concepts can be corralled into tangible  <span class="read_more"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="normallink">Read More &#62;</a></span>]]></description>
		<link>http://kenyonhcc.com/quality-worth-the-extra-mile-in-the-private-pay-marketplace/</link>
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		<title>Hiring the Best:  Elixir of Success for Home Health or Home Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hiring can be stressful, especially for a home health or home care agency. If only there was some magic potion or wand we could wave over a potential employee and turn them into a Prince or Princess Charming who would always be reliable, loyal to the agency, and adored by clients and their families. Since  <span class="read_more"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="normallink">Read More &#62;</a></span>]]></description>
		<link>http://kenyonhcc.com/hiring-the-best-elixir-of-success-for-home-health-or-home-care/</link>
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		<title>Private Pay:  A New Reason To Be Committed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven’t noticed, Private Pay agencies and franchises are opening up all over the county. This explosion, which has been going on over the last eight to ten years, is driven by two forces. On the one hand, new startups are run by individuals in the industry who truly see a need and  <span class="read_more"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="normallink">Read More &#62;</a></span>]]></description>
		<link>http://kenyonhcc.com/private-pay-a-new-reason-to-be-committed/</link>
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		<title>Customer Service:  It Can Make or Break a Home Health Agency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the days when the customer was always right? This bending over backwards to please a customer yielded mountains of good will for a company. Sadly, in the United States today, customer service has fallen off the radar of many good businesses and, sadder yet, customers don’t even expect good service anymore. But that doesn’t  <span class="read_more"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="normallink">Read More &#62;</a></span>]]></description>
		<link>http://kenyonhcc.com/customer-service-it-can-make-or-break-a-home-health-agency/</link>
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		<title>New Tools For Home Health:  Comprehensive Orientation Delivers A Competitive Edge.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Way back in the early days when the idea of home healthcare was just taking flight, staff orientation was about welcoming new employees and making them feel at home.  Today, in a competitive marketplace and uncertain economy, orientation has grown from a ‘meet and greet’ into one of the most powerful tools you have to  <span class="read_more"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="normallink">Read More &#62;</a></span>]]></description>
		<link>http://kenyonhcc.com/new-tools-for-home-health-comprehensive-orientation-delivers-a-competitive-edge/</link>
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		<title>&#8230; But Can She Boil Water Without Burning It?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I started out as a home healthcare consultant, the last thing I ever expected is that I would become a culinary expert. Well, that is exactly what has happened, and for a very good reason. It turns out that in the new era of home health, one of the most common requests for services,  <span class="read_more"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="normallink">Read More &#62;</a></span>]]></description>
		<link>http://kenyonhcc.com/but-can-she-boil-water-without-burning-it/</link>
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		<title>Organizational Assessment Sparks Your Home Care Agency&#8217;s Performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I often wake up in the wee hours of the morning wondering about change. As a professional consultant for the homecare industry, change – and all of its trappings – is often the focal point of my discussions with clients. On any given day, I help any number of agency owners and managers explore what  <span class="read_more"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="normallink">Read More &#62;</a></span>]]></description>
		<link>http://kenyonhcc.com/organizational-assessment-sparks-your-home-care-agencys-performance/</link>
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		<title>A Challenge for Home Health Agencies: Pertussis, It’s Not Just for Children Anymore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a young mother with four children, I kept logs and target dates to make sure everyone got their immunizations on time. Frankly, I was often so busy, someone invariably slipped through the cracks. Once my children were grown and neatly packed off to college with the last of their shots in place,  <span class="read_more"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="normallink">Read More &#62;</a></span>]]></description>
		<link>http://kenyonhcc.com/a-challenge-for-home-health-agencies-pertussis-it%e2%80%99s-not-just-for-children-anymore/</link>
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