Home Health Line
01/30/2025
Revisit what measures your agency takes to ensure data security in your technology ecosystem to prevent cyberattacks and quickly contain and address breaches that threaten private patient information.
01/30/2025
Hand hygiene, medication safety and patient identification are all on The Joint Commission’s list of National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) for 2025. NPSGs were designed to target identified patient safety issues of significant concern and to reduce that risk through process redesign or focus, says Kurt Patton, MS, RPH, founder of Patton Healthcare Consulting and a former director of accreditation services for The Joint Commission (TJC).
01/30/2025
The public is getting its first look at the home health quality measures around the Transfer of Health Information (TOH) to providers and patients. The national average is 80.13% for the TOH to subsequent providers and 89.57% for the TOH to patients. Results are based on OASIS assessments submitted from April 2023 to March 2024. 
01/23/2025
Make sure you're getting a second pair of eyes on the face-to-face encounter beyond intake to meet strict audit scrutiny. It’s one of the lessons learned from a recent agency audit by the OIG.
01/23/2025
Stress customized and specific education for patients with chronic conditions to increase patient engagement and satisfaction, improving your agency’s outcomes and star ratings in the process.
01/23/2025
Encourage your clinicians to communicate openly about patients’ disease process and end of life to improve survey scores, ease transitions and provide strong support for high-acuity patients and their caregivers.
01/23/2025
Focusing on joy in the workplace has the goal of improving daily life within an organization for everyone, but it also has a ripple effect. Many studies across various disciplines point to the benefits of a happy, engaged workforce.
01/23/2025
The latest hospice update at Care Compare shares collected data from 2022 and 2023 on nurse care minutes, visits in the last days of life and visits near death.
01/16/2025
Increase training around accurate scoring in the OASIS to excel at the new Discharge Function Score (DC Function), as some clinicians may not be as adept at scoring GG functional items.
01/16/2025
Make sure that you are using the latest forms and CMS guidance for patient disclosures with significant changes in 2025 requiring new procedures. 

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