Free Home Health Line Tool
02/06/2013
Give this tool, created by a Quality Improvement Organization and used by IMS Home Health Care Inc., to your clinicians to help with the medication reconciliation process.
 
01/04/2013
Use this form, created by Arlene Maxim, founder of A.D. Maxim & Associates in Troy, Mich., to get patients involved in their care and educate patients as well as caregivers about rights and responsibilities.
11/15/2012
Use this checklist, created by Lisa Selman-Holman of Selman-Holman & Associates in Denton, Texas, to review face-to-face encounter documentation for compliance with CMS requirements.
09/18/2012

Use this checklist developed by the Indiana Association for Home & Hospice Care in Indianapolis to ensure your plans of care comply with CMS hospice conditions of participation and prevent citations on plan of care-related survey tags.

07/25/2012

Use this worksheet to structure your training on the Patient Rights condition of participation and to prove to a surveyor that you’ve conducted this training. Patient Rights is one of the top 10 most-frequently cited conditions of participation and contains two level 1 standards and four level 2 standards. The worksheet was developed by Arlene Maxim, founder of A.D. Maxim & Associates in Troy, Mich.

06/04/2012

Interviews with clinicians are a crucial component of the new survey protocols. Use this tool to help therapists assess their knowledge of the home health benefit and avoid survey deficiencies. This tool was created by Thelma Bowen, CEO and owner of Healthcare Compliance Services in San Antonio and is included in DecisionHealth's Home Health Agency Guide to Deficiency-Free Medicare Surveys.

04/20/2012

Interviews with clinicians are a crucial component of the new survey protocols. Use this tool to help clinicians assess their knowledge of the home health benefit and avoid survey deficiencies. This tool was created by Thelma Bowen, CEO and owner of Healthcare Compliance Services in San Antonio and is included in DecisionHealth's Home Health Agency Guide to Deficiency-Free Medicare Surveys.

02/20/2012
by: Tim Rowan

Use this tool if you are considering a switch to a different software vendor. This checklist will help you evaluate which functions are crucial and which are dispensable for your agency's day-to-day operations. The tool was created by Tim Rowan of Rowan Consulting Associates in Colorado Springs, Colo.

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