Regional Digest
January 10, 2000 2 minutes read
Regional Digest
• The Washington State Department of Health has revoked the license of Breathing Easy (Canby, OR). An investigation by the Department of Health said Breathing Easy failed to correct several previous violations, failed to assure an alternate administrator was available in the administrator’s adsence, failed to establish five required policies dealing with personnel and patient care, and did not have verification of bakcground checks for two staff or proof of tuberculosis testing for another employee.
• Rex Home Services (Raleigh, NC), which provides home care services for citizens of Wake, Johnston, and Franklin counties, closed Dec. 31. Starting Jan. 1, the company’s operations were taken over by UNC Healthcare Home Health.
• Needy residents of Fairfax County, VA, say a pilot program that reduced the hours some home care aides spend with patients is a way for the affluent community to cut costs at the expense of its needy residents. But Fairfax officials said the county remains committed to helping those in need and is simply trying to deliver services more efficiently, reported the Washington Post. In August, the Post reported, the county contracted with a private company, Capital Home Health Care, to be the sole provider of home care aides in a new cluster-care project at six sites in the Falls Church, VA, area. The pilot program, serving about 80 people, is aimed at using the aides more effectively by assigning them to perform certain tasks for elderly and disabled people who live close to each other, rather than stay with individual clients for set periods of time, the Post reported. Capital’s contract runs through June, with two one-year renewal options.
• Riverside Internal Medicine (Jacksonville, FL) has a new home care program it started in November. The program allows patients of Riverside, who are either too sick or too old to come to the office regularly, to receive monthly checkups at home.
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