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Vision | The Care Leaders' Podcast

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Welcome to Vision: The Care Leaders’ Podcast—a podcast that gives you an inside look at what’s happening in home care, home health, and hospice. Hosts Linda Leekley and Amanda Sternklar sit down with industry leaders to discuss pressing challenges, operational best practices, rising trends, and answer top-of-mind questions from providers across the nation. Catch a new episode of Vision every other Tuesday.
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Episodes

How to Create a Caregiver Journey That Drives Engagement & Growth

Dustin Distefano, Founder and CEO of A Place at Home highlights the importance of a clearly defined caregiver journey. He breaks down: How to engage caregivers through meaningful touchpoints How to create opportunities for advancement that ignite growth How engagement & professional growth lead to caregiver retention

Apr 27, 202126 minSeason 1Ep. 40

Red Shoes Living: 5-Step Framework to Stand Out in Business and in Life

Lonnie Mayne, Founder of Red Shoes Living is a world-renowned speaker and author on humanizing the experience. He's here to share the 5-step framework of his philosophy: Red Shoes Living. Learn how to build enriched culture, establish leadership responsibility, develop team accountability or create standout client experiences through this 5-step framework that's designed to help individuals show up and put their best self forward every day.

Apr 14, 202127 minSeason 1Ep. 39

3 Ways to Prepare Your Home Care Agency to Sell

Steve "The Hurricane" unpacks the three most important things your agency can do today to prepare to sell. Whether you've been in business for a year, three-years or twenty years, it's never too early or too late to have this conversation.

Mar 30, 202127 minSeason 1Ep. 37

7 Proven Tips to Help You Retain Caregivers

Chelsey Ammons, VP of Nursing at Care Advantage Inc. dives into how her team has successfully retained hundreds of caregivers across 25+ locations over the course of the pandemic. She'll share seven tips with derived outcomes and examples that you can implement today to retain caregivers in your home care agency.

Mar 02, 202128 minSeason 1Ep. 34

5 Secrets to Master Home Care Scheduling

Olivia Jones, Executive Vice President of Care Advantage Inc. has been working in personal care for 23 years and is here to highlight five secrets to improve your home care scheduling processes. In this episode we'll discuss: - What the five secrets are - How Olivia has seen these secrets work effectively across their 27 locations - What results you can expect to see from implementing these secrets

Feb 23, 202126 minSeason 1Ep. 33

7 Tips to Recruit, Retain & Manage Caregivers: From a Home Care Agency Patient Turned Owner

Brett Ringold, Vice President of family-owned agency, A Long Term Companion is here to highlight his decade of experience recruiting and retaining caregivers after having been a recipient of home care himself. We'll dive into office staff culture, mastering caregiver scheduling, measuring caregiver satisfaction, refining your onboarding process and much more. Tune in to learn tips that you can begin implementing in your home care business today!

Feb 16, 202142 minSeason 1Ep. 32

Educating Your Staff About the End of Life Experience with Renowned Author, Barbara Karnes

Barbara Karnes, author of 'Gone From My Sight', 'The Little Blue Book' and 'The 11th Hour' shares what she's learned from 40+ years of experience educating and training care workers on the end of life experience. She's known as the pioneer of the hospice industry and with over 30 million copies sold of her books, she's the expert on all topics around death and end of life.

Feb 09, 202141 minSeason 1Ep. 31

Top 5 Things on the Mind of a $9M+ Home Care Owner

Kevin Smith, CEO of Best of Care in the greater Boston area shares what's top of mind for him as his multi-million dollar independent agency continues to grow at an accelerated rate. In this episode, we'll hit on: COVID vaccine rollout and messaging Scaling your HR Department Pressure testing your administrative infrastructure Pursuing opportunities: quality vs quantity Growing from $5M to $10M and beyond

Jan 26, 202136 minSeason 1Ep. 29

How to Develop a Care Team That Wants to Grow With Your Home Care Agency

Jessica Nobles, Founder of Nobility Care Solutions and Executive Administrator of Home Care Ops is here to share how to validate and give a voice to your caregivers, the importance of an EVP and what the hierarchy structure looks like for her care team.

Jan 05, 202138 minSeason 1Ep. 26

5 Questions Home Care Owners are Asking to Jumpstart Growth in 2021

Jake Rankin, the Founder and CEO of Talem Home Care & Placement Services out of Broomfield, Colorado addresses the top questions home care providers are asking, including: Getting caregivers to show up for interviews Progressing referral sources that say they're working with another agency What's working in terms of digital communication with referral sources Best use of marketing dollars right now Strategic planning for 2021, including how to factor in the ongoing effect of COVID-19...

Dec 29, 202029 minSeason 1Ep. 25

What It's Like Starting a Home Care Agency in a Pandemic

Howard Stein, Owner of Home Helpers in Monmouth County, NJ started his agency in February 2020 — here's what he experienced jumping into the industry, hiring his first employees and operating an agency amidst a pandemic.

Dec 22, 202028 minSeason 1Ep. 24

How NuevaCare Went from $0 to $3M and Sold After Just 4 Years

Kamran Nasser, Founder and CEO of NuevaCare in San Mateo, California is here to tell us how he built the #3 fastest-growing private company in Silicon Valley back in 2017. He ran NuevaCare very successfully for just 4 years before he sold it — here's the story.

Dec 08, 202022 minSeason 1Ep. 22

NY Trade Organization Launches Caregiver Mentorship Program to Help Reduce 90-Day Turnover

NYSHCP, President Kathy Febraio has developed and secured funding for a peer-to-peer mentorship program for home care workers in the state of New York. They’re four months into a year-long program, working with 6 home care agencies in upstate NY and NYC. Kathy’s here to discuss how she developed the program, the results so far and what they hope to accomplish over the next 6 months.

Dec 01, 202023 minSeason 1Ep. 21

23-Year Old Goes from Caregiver to Branch Director in 3 Years with Home Helpers

Dakota Aitken, now Branch Director at Home Helpers in Cour d'Alene, Idaho first started as a caregiver to make some extra cash before and during his time at the University. He quickly developed compassion and a love for the industry, which led him to his current role – here's his story.

Nov 23, 202025 minSeason 1Ep. 20

How Home Care of the Rockies Built a Caregiver Training Program that Retains 90% of Caregivers

Sandi McCann, Founder and CEO of Home Care of the Rockies in Boulder County, Colorado talks about building The HomeCare 100 — a 100-hour caregiver training program custom to her agency. She'll unload why they built a custom program, how they pulled it all together, what's included in the 100-hours and what recruitment and retention results have derived from this exceptional training program.

Nov 17, 202041 minSeason 1Ep. 19

How to Tackle Staffing, New Client Demand and Team Accountability, According to Gregg Mazza of Home Care Breakthrough Solutions

Gregg Mazza, Founder and CEO of Home Care Breakthrough Solutions is here to talk about the big three challenges impacting the industry: staffing, meeting new client demand and holding your entire team accountable. From growing his own agency to $5M+ to consulting with hundreds of home care providers, he's got a solid understanding of these challenges and new ideas to tackle them in the present day.

Nov 10, 202043 minSeason 1Ep. 18

Caregivers Stay in the Field Because of These 4 Factors, According to Executive Director of Private Duty Home Care at NAHC

Emilie Bartolucci, Executive Director of Private Duty Home Care at NAHC is here to talk about her journey to the home care industry and why that's led her to pursue a doctrate in organizational leadership. She's focusing her dissertation on the caregiver experience and the motivating factors that keep caregivers in the industry. Here's what she has learned.

Oct 20, 202033 minSeason 1Ep. 15

Home Care Recruitment: What's Working & What's Not

Andrea Cohen, Founder & CEO of HouseWorks talks about competing with unemployment, which tech tools and platforms are bringing applicants, and how to optimize and set goals that result in new hires.

Sep 29, 202039 minSeason 1Ep. 12
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