Home Health Line
03/20/2025
It is important to accurately assess for the OASIS-E items that pertain to feeding and eating — M1870 (Feeding or eating) and GG0130A (Eating). While both the M items and GG items address Activities of Daily Living and mobility, there are important differences in the rules and conventions governing the items that will impact scoring.
03/20/2025
Regulated entities are expected to establish a facility security plan to protect its facilities and equipment from unauthorized physical access, tampering and theft.
03/20/2025
There were just two home health sales identified in the fourth quarter of 2024 — the lowest since the pandemic.
03/13/2025
Create opportunities for meaningful connections with staff to build their trust in your agency’s leadership and increase their commitment to your team.
03/13/2025
One of the key factors in face-to-face encounter compliance comes down to the origin of the referral — mainly whether it's an acute setting or a community provider.
03/13/2025
Encourage clinicians to lead open, nonjudgemental conversations about tobacco cessation throughout a patient’s care. Tobacco-related issues like infections or chronic disease exacerbations may be at the root of some patients’ rehospitalizations.
03/13/2025
Educate your hospice staff on monitoring symptoms that could indicate a patient is nearing the end of life. Agencies that manage these symptoms early and take the time to prepare and comfort caregivers and families for the transition could see these successes reflected in their CAHPS Hospice survey scores.
03/13/2025
A recent report in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety looked at the impact that employee trust in their leaders had on
professional satisfaction and high quality work in a survey of 353 health care workers.
03/06/2025
The fate of a telehealth waiver for face to face visits remains unknown, but providers are getting a clearer sense of one way the Department of Health and Human Services will operate under the new Trump administration: fewer chances for public comments before rulemaking.
03/06/2025
Make sure clinicians are assessing patients based on the specific tasks for the two different toilet transfer questions on the OASIS. Accurately recording the results impacts your payment and publicly reported data.

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