What is the purpose of QAPI?.What are the 4 elements of QAPI? Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) is a vital aspect of the healthcare industry. It is a process that aims to improve the quality of...

Leadership Shortage Heroes: 3 Ways Interim Leaders Keep Agencies Afloat.As the healthcare industry continues to experience rapid growth and transformation, there is an increasing need for interim management to fill leadership roles within agencies. In...

Navigating Competitive Times in Healthcare: SimiTree’s 4 Ways to Attract & Retain Top Talent.SimiTree’s 4 Ways to Attract & Retain Top Talent The home health, hospice, and behavioral health industries are facing unprecedented challenges in finding and retaining...

Infinity Announces New Name, Now SimiTree Behavioral Health.LAUDERDALE LAKES, Fla. – Infinity, an industry-leading provider of business solutions for behavioral health organizations, is pleased to announce that it has changed its name to...

Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage: What Home Health Agencies Need to Know.The Difference Between Medicare and Medicare Advantage  In this blog post, we explore the differences between Medicare and Medicare Advantage coverages and, most importantly,...

End of Public Health Emergency (PHE): May 11.The nation’s COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) is coming to an end May 11, according to an announcement made Jan. 30 by the Biden administration. The announcement brings to...

SimiTree Senior Manager literally wrote the book on OASIS-E – and the new HCS-O study guide.By Claudia Baker, RN, MHA, HCS-D, HCS-OSenior Manager, Clinical Operations Consulting Home health is abuzz with OASIS-E questions on BIMS scoring, the criteria for...

CMS publishes hospice survey changes with guidelines for surveyor training.After months of anticipation, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has just made available revisions to Hospice-Appendix M of the State Operations Manual (SOM) and...