Home Health Line
05/17/2023
Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) not only give agencies better insight into environmental factors that affect patients, but they also provide a better idea of how to best treat patients with optimal care that leads to better outcomes.
05/17/2023
Advance care planning is a necessary part of hospice care. It is also a valuable resource that hospices can provide to their community that can attract future referrals.
05/17/2023
"We focus on the experience not just the job. We launched different programs to help show clinicians they were made for home care; they just didn’t know it yet."
05/17/2023
OASIS-E has added as much as one to two more hours to the start-of-care assessments for 20% of 64 agency reps who responded to DecisionHealth’s OASIS-E Impact Survey.
05/11/2023
CMS has offered a handful of compliance updates and clarifications in advance of mandatory reporting for telehealth visits and remote patient monitoring beginning July 1, 2023.
05/11/2023
Incorporate function-based goals in patient care plans now to prove medical necessity and avoid medical review denials headaches.
05/11/2023
Use this scenario to show staff the different types of function-based goals that can be created for a specific patient.
05/11/2023
Firearms in patient homes can cause several issues for a home health agency. Agencies have an obligation under OSHA to maintain workplace safety in the patient's home.
05/11/2023
CMS is expected to soon end a requirement that staff be vaccinated against COVID-19, wiht the public health emergency (PHE) coming to an end May 11.
05/11/2023
The most recent update of Care Compare reveals patients are improving more during home health in areas such as ambulation and bathing. Data were collected from July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022.

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