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The Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued a Special Advisory Bulletin on contractual joint ventures. Now is the time for agencies which are owned or affiliated with hospitals to review the arrangements in which they provide services.
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CMS starts plan to boost compliant claims; Study: More than half of HHAs not ready for HIPAA; CMS begins effort to stop wheelchair benefit abuse
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Home health agency managers have looked at every aspect of their new employee recruitment programs to identify how to best attract good nurses.
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What happens if your survey report is full of inaccuracies and crosses the boundary of typical standard-of-care expectations? Are you prepared to appeal?
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Will that new supply of coffee mugs, calendars, note pads, and pens engraved with your agencys name and phone number make physicians or their nurses refer to your agency? Probably not, according to experts interviewed by Hospital Home Health.
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Russell Kendzior, executive director of the National Floor Safety Institute (NFSI), offers this advice on how proper floor maintenance can reduce falls in health care facilities:
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Many cleaning products leave floors more slippery than they were before cleaning, the National Floor Safety Institute (NFSI), reports.
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A virtual anticoagulation clinic is being credited with dramatic improvements in patient safety at Abington (PA) Memorial Hospital, which recently won the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety Award from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) recently announced that it will revise the fixed and variable performance areas evaluated during random unannounced surveys, starting in 2004.
