Home Health Line
12/14/2015
A new app provides non-clinical employees with questions to ask patients about psychosocial status, diet and energy level. Based on the answers to those responses, those staff alert telehealth nurses to red flags, thus reducing readmissions for high-risk patients.
12/14/2015
Use new whistleblowing guidance from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to establish a “speak-up” culture and address potential hazards before they cause worker injury or sickness at your agency.
12/14/2015
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration wants commenters on its new whistleblowing guidance to address the following questions.
12/14/2015
A federal bill forcing states to require electronic visit verification (EVV) for Medicaid home care services — and penalizing states that don’t — recently passed through a House subcommittee.
12/14/2015
As technologically savvy private duty startups that have emerged in the past year or so — companies like Honor and HomeHero — begin to expand nationwide, the more traditional private duty agencies must recognize the need to retain good customer service while at the same time paying greater attention to technology themselves.
12/14/2015
by: OCS HomeCare by National Research Corporation
The data below show the average readmission rates within 30 and 60 days of home health admission for the five diagnoses that trigger hospital readmission penalties.

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