Home Health Line
06/13/2016
Agencies in the 67 metropolitan areas where the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model is ongoing are learning that failure in properly marketing themselves to the hospitals at risk in the demo could have serious financial consequences.
06/13/2016
CMS should consider the time and cost for home health agencies to train on the OASIS-C2 data set, and the new assessment items should account for updated wound care guidelines, according to the stakeholders who commented before the comment period ended May 31.
06/13/2016
Nurses, therapists and even social workers should bring alcohol-based hand sanitizers, hand soap or a bar of soap, and alcohol-based towelettes to patients’ homes. And agencies should instill in clinicians the need to perform best practices when it comes to properly cleaning hands when treating patients.
06/13/2016
Pay close attention during a job interview with a perspective marketing candidate to make sure the candidate has a strong work ethic. Marketers who are incapable of being persistent are destined to fail, industry experts contend.
06/13/2016
Agencies’ policies should address the use of hand sanitizers, when clinicians should wash their hands, how hands should be washed and for how long hands should be washed.
06/13/2016
by: 2016 Genworth Cost of Care study
The median montly cost of homemaker services in 2016 increased 2.56% over last year to $3,813, and the cost for unskilled home care aide services rose 1.25% over 2015 to $3,861, according to the 2016 Genworth Cost of Care study.
06/13/2016
by: WHO
Provide clinicians with this tool about how to properly clean their hands.
06/01/2016
The costs clients pay for homemaker and home care aide services have inched up again, and rural states appear to be the hardest hit, the 2016 Genworth Cost of Care study shows.

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