Essentially the most compelling and revolutionary leaders in dwelling care not solely encourage the individuals who work at their firms, additionally they seize the eye of fellow trade leaders.

These leaders have earned the excessive regard of their friends by overcoming operational challenges within the house, creating impactful hiring initiatives, persistently embracing new concepts and frequently keeping track of the long run.

Dwelling Well being Care Information just lately spoke with 4 prime executives to seek out out which leaders they suppose are driving dwelling well being ahead and why.

Final month, HHCN spoke with 5 leaders in dwelling care.

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Regionally, Trent Smith is somebody who I believe is on the cusp of actually altering the way in which our nurses strategy documentation.

Trent operates a number of hospice and residential well being websites underneath the Accentra Well being banner in Oklahoma and has created a software program AI interface that may work with the three largest dwelling well being EMR suppliers.

I’ve not but seen a product that makes use of each AI and speech recognition on the degree that its product “Apricot” does. It's going to fully change the sport. Trent tackles the core downside holding our trade again from having the 'finest' nursing job. If we are able to transfer to 100% dwelling documentation with excessive accuracy and on the similar time be certain that our nurses don’t work late into the evening, that may be a big step ahead.

I imagine that he’s very shut and that his work will advance not solely his companies, however others as properly.

– David Jackson, CEO of Alternative Well being at Dwelling

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Shelly Solar and her management staff are doing a improbable job paying consideration not solely to the place the trade is now, but additionally to the place will probably be in two years. They’re positioning their firm properly to satisfy the wants of sufferers and payers as post-acute care wants evolve.

Shelly is an inspiring chief and somebody who maintains a powerful presence and public visibility together with her staff and sufferers. Dwelling care is extraordinarily private and personal. She has accomplished a terrific job of offering sufferers and their households with that sense of non-public consideration, duty and care that makes them really feel snug with BrightStar Care and their franchisees.

I believe she has additionally been very progressive in driving workforce development via supplier growth and recruitment packages. She has additionally utilized the identical forward-thinking and innovation to working with payers and ACOs in advancing the ideas of pre-acute care versus post-acute discharge from hospital-only care, and that’s the place the trade is headed.

We are going to proceed to see Shelly and the BrightStar Care staff as leaders and innovators in our trade.

– John M. Kunysz, president and CEO of Intrepid USA Healthcare Companies

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The chief I want to spotlight is RJ Gagnon of Androscoggin Dwelling Healthcare & Hospice.

Having spoken with RJ at occasions and mentioned what he does at Androscoggin, I’m satisfied that he’s the way forward for the trade. He’s sturdy in the important thing enterprise areas that each firm must survive a way forward for unsure rates of interest. He’s curious and at all times in search of methods to enhance himself and his firm. He’s extraordinarily desirous to study and that has led to new improvements as he has labored to bridge the hole from a conventional CFO to a COO with a wider vary of tasks. I’m additionally impressed by the generosity he has with others, sharing ideas and methods on finest practices, EMR methods and company governance.

Whereas working with him as a part of the HHFMA Advisory Board, I’ve discovered the right way to higher run my company and the right way to correctly steadiness the competing wants of a finance head and a enterprise head. I do know that now that Ken and he are in cost, Androscoggin is properly positioned to be a winner and I wish to take that very same information and apply it all through our group.

— Beau Sorensen, COO at First Alternative Dwelling Well being & Hospice

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Beau Sorenson, at First Alternative Dwelling Well being & Hospice, is an innovator, a conscientious chief and a rising star in dwelling well being care. He thinks forward, works onerous and understands the facility of giving again to the trade. Beau doesn't have a look at yesterday's solutions to tomorrow's issues. He’s deeply concerned in cost reform and legislative work, and leads his workplace as an innovator.

— Brent Korte, CEO of Frontpoint Well being