Free Home Health Line Tool
06/25/2015
by: Liz Pearson
Use this sample gift policy from Attorney Liz Pearson as a guide when drafting a policy for marketers at your agency.
06/01/2015
by: Diane Link
Provide your agency’s intake employees with a brief multiple-choice quiz in order to determine their knowledge level in advance of ICD-10’s Oct. 1 implementation. Here are some of the questions you should ask, advises Diane Link, president of home health and hospice consulting company Link Healthcare Advantage in Littlestown, Pa.
 
11/11/2014
by: Mary McGoldrick
This tool assures that a patient or individual in the home with suspected exposure to Ebola receives care in the proper healthcare setting and is managed in a manner that minimizes risk for transmission.
 
11/03/2014
by: Athens Regional Home Health

The following Ebola decision tree is designed to use for home health intake and clinical staff to help them assess risk and protect staff and patients. It was created by Pamela Hall, executive director of Athens Regional Home Health, a hospital-based agency in Athens, Georgia. The agency regularly updates this decision tree as guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other sources changes.

 
10/08/2014
by: Blessed Trinity Home Health & Hospice
Use this free tool to conduct a heart failure telephonic assessment.
10/08/2014
by: Johns Hopkins
View Johns Hopkins Home Care Group’s policy on mandatory influenza vaccinations. 
09/08/2014
by: CMS
The following is a sample of an initial cover letter to be sent for the CAHPS hospice survey.
 
09/04/2014
by: CMS
Use this form to authorize a survey vendor to submit data on your hospice's behalf.
09/02/2014
by: CMS
Several companies have met the hospice CAHPS survey requirements to be conditionally approved to administer the survey.
08/25/2014
StrategicHealthSoluitions recently mailed the following letter to a home health agency when issuing denials due to face-to-face documentation issues.

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