Home Health Line
05/13/2020
As states began imposing shutdown orders in the wake of COVID-19, essential businesses such as home health agencies needed a game plan to cope with new restrictions.
05/13/2020
If you are authorizing the decontamination and reuse of N95 or other protective face masks for health care personnel in the face of supply shortages, ensure you are updating your respiratory protections policies, training your personnel and documenting the evidence-based criteria you are using to reuse the masks.
05/13/2020
Each month Home Care Pulse in Rexburg, Idaho, conducts thousands of interviews with home care caregivers as part of the Satisfaction Management Program.
05/12/2020
If you are authorizing the decontamination and reuse of N95 or other protective face masks for health care personnel in the face of supply shortages, ensure you are updating your respiratory protections policies, training your personnel, and documenting the evidence-based criteria you are using to reuse the masks.
05/06/2020
While the new diagnosis code to capture COVID-19 has been in effect since April 1, coders have run into a few hiccups along the way as far as how it should be used.
05/06/2020
CMS addressed a question about whether agencies should discharge a patient when a home health patient is admitted for an inpatient stay.
05/06/2020
CMS released an updated memo on April 24 to state surveyors reiterating previous guidance about health care workers entering nursing homes. 
05/06/2020
The closures of schools and daycares across the nation forced some agencies to get creative and look into implementing childcare policies and modifying employee leave and work-from-home policies.
05/06/2020
HealthLeaders Media, a sister organization to DecisionHealth talked with disaster response expert Regardt Ferreira, PhD, to get his perspective on the mental health impact on health care workers during the pandemic.
05/06/2020
by: CDC
The data below show the underlying medical conditions for 305 adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at eight Georgia hospitals in March 2020, according to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.

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