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September/October Publisher’s Message

40 Strategic Planning Opportunities

In this issue of The Remington Report, we will guide your business readiness for adoption of new transformations, look at opportunity identification to create new revenue, and provide ways to achieve better outcomes.

• 4 investment areas of growth in the health care economy, which totaled at least $648 billion in 2019, is positioned at the intersection of the future of work for social determinants of health, the aging population, and the sandwich generation.
• 6 specific surging areas businesses are investing in that is creating a road map to healthcare’s future.
• 5 COVID waivers healthcare providers are asking CMS to keep to allow healthcare not to return to the old ways of doing things.
• 3 missed opportunities for end-of-life discussions including advance care planning, palliative care, discontinuation of disease-directed treatment, hospice care, and after-death wishes.
• 6 ways to identify, increase and manage referrals. Insights to accelerate home health and hospice growth through improved referral processes, including questions you should be asking your referral sources.
• 7 smart ways to stay in communications with your referral sources. Your referral partners increasingly expect robust communications to make patient transfers as seamless as possible, for both the patient and providers.
• 10 most frequent diagnoses for inpatient stays. Insight into the 10 most frequent principal diagnosis and their costs impacting hospital inpatient stays.