Home Health Line
11/02/2009
HHAs and hospices may be overlooking an ally in their patients’ end-of-life care and a potential referral source: volunteer hospices.
11/02/2009
Some agencies have been reluctant to use Prothrombin Time/International Normalized Ratio (PT/INR) machines in the past because of concerns about cost, validity and physician acceptance.
11/02/2009
When a patient at Suncoast Hospice requires emergency attention, the clinician could receive a text message that says, “1 Murphy I now.”
11/02/2009
As CMS moves towards publicly reporting patient-satisfaction scores, agencies should follow the lead of Home Nursing Agency in Altoona, Pa., in its push to make every visit a “wow experience.”
10/26/2009
Long before Uncle Sam decides whether there should be a new Medicare benefit for home-based management of chronically ill patients, Pennsylvania HHAs may be contracting with physicians to manage such
10/26/2009
Have you ever encountered a situation in which a skilled nursing facility fails to communicate a significant change in condition or even the death of one of your hospice patients?
10/26/2009
Imagine you hire a new marketer who starts bringing in referrals from one of your local hospital discharge planners. Sounds good, right?
10/26/2009
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tested its H1N1 patient-education materials this summer, it found a disturbing trend.
10/26/2009
Some home health agencies will need to develop a workaround in their software to bill for H1N1 vaccines and administration
10/26/2009
Giving away your services for free does work — at least when it comes to staffing hospice cases.

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