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Home Care Now is a bi-monthly podcast for home care agency leaders brought to you by CellTrak. Home Care Now will bring you insightful conversations with an outstanding line up of experts and influencers within the home care industry. Our goal is to share ideas that can help you achieve the Quadruple Aim – better care, better outcomes, lower costs, and caring management.This season’s theme is “becoming a lean agency.” By lean, we mean running efficiently and productively. Over the next 5 episodes, we will explore becoming lean through different functional lenses, including human capital, legal, operations, and other areas. By the end of the season, you’ll have a well-rounded view of how to operate efficiently and productively across your organization.In our first episode, we’ll explore how to prevent litigation and wage disputes with Angelo Spinola, who specializes in employment and labor law at Littler Mendelson. We’ll discuss the legal pitfalls of managing a remote workforce, and how technology can foster better labor relations, benefit employees, and help prevent litigation.We’ll also tackle how to become lean after the merger or acquisition transaction completes. Combing large field forces brings a unique set of challenges. As investors look to quickly get ROI, we’ll discuss how innovation can help drive productivity with Jennifer Maxwell, President of Maxwell Healthcare Associates, who are change management specialists.In another episode, we’ll look at IT interoperability and integration, discussing the challenges of working with multiple systems and what you can do to ensure you can easily access all your data.With today’s tight labor force, recruiting and retention is top of mind. Sydney Axelrod from the Home Care Aide Council joins us in an episode to discuss their recent caregiver research and we explore creative ways to engage workers to reduce turnover and improve productivity. We also have an entire episode devoted to keeping caregivers safe. We’ll discuss regulations, and ways to ensure staff and patient safety in homes and neighborhoods. You won’t want to miss an episode! Go www.celltrak.com/podcasts now and subscribe to the Home Care Now podcast, so you get new episodes automatically. You can listen via Apple iTunes, Google Play or Spotify – or directly from the CellTrak web site.Drop us a line at podcasts@celltrak.com with what you think about the episodes or if you have other topics you’d like us to explore.