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The biggest change made during the reorganization of Gaston Memorial Home Care in Gastonia, NC, was the multidisciplinary team approach in which nurses and therapists report to a clinical manager.
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Many providers generally are familiar with prohibitions against fraud and abuse in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, including Medicaid waiver programs.
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While nurses and physicians have their roles to play in palliative care of dying patients, social workers also have a responsibility for assisting in pain management.
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Your agency staff are busy, productive, and highly skilled; but you are losing so much money each month, you might be closed down.
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This column addresses specific questions related to implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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The hospice industry in recent years has worked with medical and nursing schools to improve their students' training in end-of-life care.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced electronic claims that are noncompliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) will not be processed after Oct. 1, 2005.
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Palliative care programs are growing in number and prominence at hospitals and hospices across the nation, as increasing numbers of health care providers want to focus on medicine used as much for comfort and quality of life as for diagnoses and cures when dealing with patients who have chronic illnesses for which there are no easy resolutions.
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Although home health agencies have focused upon falls in the home for many years, their importance was brought into the spotlight when the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations included that category in the 2005 National Safety Patient Goals.
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Hospices have had to deal with the periodic nursing shortages for decades, but California arguably has one of the most challenging problems, so a Sunnydale, CA, hospice has developed a nursing retention and recruitment program that tackles the problem with innovative solution.
