Home Health Line
03/06/2017

Review the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) immediately if you haven’t already, and conduct a gap analysis to identify the many changes you must make to comply with the new requirements.

03/06/2017

Conduct a brief test to determine caregiver stress/strain. Agencies often focus all their attention on the patient, not realizing the caregiver’s health is vital to the patient’s long-term success. But reversing this trend will help agencies significantly with patient outcomes and HHCAHPS results.

03/06/2017

Slides from a recent CMS presentation revealed the federal Medicare agency plans to include within a new Hospice Compare website the seven current process measures from the Hospice Item Set (HIS) and eight Hospice CAHPS survey measures.

03/06/2017

As more agencies use real-time video and picture communications, they need to ask a set of questions to determine if they are at risk for civil penalties and violating HIPAA when transmitting and storing Protected Health Information (PHI).

03/06/2017

Agencies should pay close attention to caregivers’ health. It could improve outcomes. Here’s a snapshot of caregivers, according to the 2016 Caregiving in the U.S. executive summary by AARP and National Alliance for Caregiving.

03/06/2017
About 60% of agencies plan to spend less than $10,000 in the next year to prepare for the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs).

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