Home Health Line
04/03/2025
Industry leaders are calling on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to carefully plot out major job cuts and department shifts to avoid impacting patients and providers.
04/03/2025
Utilize basic email security protocols and educate staff on identifying messages that could present threats to your agency’s finances, technology and sensitive patient information. Failing to prevent these attacks could lead to barriers in patient care, loss of business or, possibly, closure.
04/03/2025
Don’t confuse the location-specific assessment of M1830 (Bathing) with the location-independent assessment of GG0130E (Shower/bathe self) when assessing for the items related to bathing on the OASIS.
04/03/2025
Encourage clinicians to dig deeper when assessing patients for symptoms of anxiety and depression and normalize these mental health concerns to improve patient engagement, outcomes and avoid emergency room visits or rehospitalizations.
04/03/2025
Help patients who are experiencing symptoms of anxiety or depression engage in healthy coping mechanisms to improve adherence with and participation in the plan of care. 
04/03/2025
Home health providers report that 42.5% of patients struggle with depression, according to the National Health Statistics Report.

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