Home Health Chronicles: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

About Home Health Chronicles: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

This podcast is all things home health! The good, the bad, and the ugly. Join me for “hot topics”, “stories from the week”, as well as questions submitted by you. I want you to know that you are not alone out there.., we’re all living in this crazy home health world together.

Publisher

Home Health Chronicles

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

22 Jan 2024

Latest episode

22 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

12 of 12 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   22 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Home Health Stories: Wellness Checks and a Visit Turned Terrifying

   Physical therapist Mai Haynes shares two home health stories with host Lisa, highlighting the importance of trusting intuition and escalating concerns during patient visits.

2. 

   27 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Jennifer discusses a time where she had to perform CPR in Home Health

   Physical Therapist Assistant Jennifer Seager shares her intense firsthand account of performing CPR during a home health visit, offering crucial lessons on emergency response and staying calm under pressure.

3. 

   20 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Angela speaks about when her home health visit turned violent

   Home health aide Angela shares her harrowing experience of a violent patient encounter, emphasizing the critical importance of safety awareness and escape planning.

4. 

   10 Apr 2024TRANSCRIPT

   The FIVE times I’ve found my patients on the floor

   Join me, myself, and I as I discuss the 5 different times I have showed up for an appointment and found my patient on the floor.

5. 

   25 Mar 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Speech therapy in the home, a day in the life (PT and ST), and horrors.

   Please join me and Meghan (@slpontheroad) as we discuss speech therapy in the home, mobile MBSS, a day in the life as a PT and SLP, and finish with a quick home health horror.

6. 

   12 Mar 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Self care and fighting burnout, enhancing your skills in home health… and the smells..

   Join me and Jackie OT (@the.journalinglife) as we discuss self care and fighting burnout in home health, ways to enhance your skills, and as always - stories. Smelly, smelly, smelly stories.

7. 

   26 Feb 2024TRANSCRIPT

   New grads starting out in home health.. can it be done?

   On this episode I have Alyssa and Ellen who both started out in home health as new grads. They answer your questions regarding what it was like and can it be done. And filled with lots of HH stories.

8. 

   19 Feb 2024TRANSCRIPT

   All things.. Pediatric Home Health!

   Join me as I discuss all things pediatric home health with Megan PT and Abby PT. We discuss the pros and cons of peds HH as well as differences and similarities between geriatrics and peds HH. And as always- ends with some stories!

9. 

   12 Feb 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Pregnancy, Pumping, and Parenting in Home Health.. oh my!

   Join myself and fellow PTs Lyndzy and Fisayo from @homehealthambassadors as we discuss all things pregnancy, pumping, and parenting in home health. Pros and cons!

10. 

    5 Feb 2024TRANSCRIPT

    Asking for a raise, tips for scheduling, and the ugly side of home health

    Join me as I discuss with fellow PT @zachpevnickpt regarding how to ask for a raise, tips on scheduling patients in home health, and as always, finishing up with home health stories. These two stories may show the uglier side of home health, but they need to be discussed.

11. 

    29 Jan 2024TRANSCRIPT

    Therapy vs Nursing?? Family Members, Limiting Visits, and… Nudists??

    Join me on this episode as I speak with Miranda, RN regarding therapy vs nursing, dealing with family members, office/companies limiting visits, home health from a nursing perspective, and finish off with one of Miranda’s craziest home experiences.

12. 

    22 Jan 2024TRANSCRIPT

    Who am I? ALFs vs Homes. The one meme/post I’ve been struggling with for over a year.

    Welcome to the first episode of Home Health Chronicles: The good, the bad, and the ugly. This episode is just myself giving a quick intro to who I am, why I started this podcast and my IG , ALFs vs Homes, and then the one meme/post I have been struggling to make for over a year. I can’t wait to continue to discuss all things home health in future episode with you all as guests!

Inside a recent episode

Home Health Stories: Wellness Checks and a Visit Turned Terrifying

Published 22 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Yeah, because you're telling and you know, because she's telling me that this happens often. And it occurs spur of the moment. So you never know. You can't read that it's coming. And I said, we're not going to come back. And I let the nurse know who is going and my manager know. And we didn't go back because now is the nurse still going? No. No. OK, so nobody's going. Nobody's going. Yeah. And do you feel like you were supported by your manager in that decision? Yes. Yeah. I think that's huge. It is a lot of times I don't feel like some people, some agencies do support clinicians this way. When you say, look, we've been in an unsafe environment. […]

Who has been a guest on Home Health Chronicles: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Mai Haynes
• Jennifer Seager
• Angela

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 5 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

0

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

27

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