Home Health Line
03/05/2018
The appointed head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has apparently not affected OSHA’s investigations of health and safety hazards in the workplace.
03/05/2018
Ensure patients and their loved ones understand the efforts your hospice is taking to help with pain and constipation symptoms patients are suffering. 
03/05/2018
Hospice Compare’s location search field appears to function properly now — and that’s something industry experts contend will be extremely helpful for the website.
03/05/2018
by: CMS
With Hospice CAHPS data, the highest scoring composite — by far — involves treating patients with respect, according to the Feb. 21 refresh of Hospice Compare.
03/01/2018
CMS on Feb. 5 successfully installed a fix to an issue that had been triggering hospice notices of election (NOE) to return to providers for correction.
02/26/2018
As agencies work to comply with the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), they continue to ask detailed questions of industry experts. Here are responses from consultant Arlene Maxim, a home health expert based in Troy, Mich., attorney Robert Markette of Indianapolis-based Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman and attorney Elizabeth Pearson of Pearson & Bernard in Edgewood, Ky.
02/26/2018
Ask patients if they have been concerned or fretted over a number of things lately. Doing so will help patients open up and relay any anxiety issues which, if undetected and untreated, could potentially cause worse patient outcomes.
02/26/2018
Some pressure ulcer data was mistakenly excluded from recent CMS reports on quality measures for home health agencies, but CMS says the data will be corrected before the measure is publicly reported on Home Health Compare.
02/26/2018
by: Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network Inc.
About 45% of the time at start of care (SOC), clinicians mark that patients experience anxiety at least some of the time, according to data from Minneapolis-based ABILITY Network Inc.
02/26/2018
Hospices nationwide earned an average score of 93.5% or higher on six of the seven HIS measures, according to the Feb. 21 refresh of Hospice Compare.

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