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The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) of Alexandria, VA, has developed a diversity toolkit designed to help hospice organizations with their efforts to improve diversity among their patient base.
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Protecting employees as they travel throughout the area and into many different types of situations often means giving them trainings and tools that can help them avoid, or escape, a dangerous situation.
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) relaxed some rules and requirements for home health agencies that provide care to patients who were relocated as a result of Hurricane Katrina.
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Although the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) begins unannounced surveys for all organizations in 2006, it does not mean that random unannounced surveys will end.
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Now there is an on-line inventory of about 120 dual language (English and a foreign language) health information documents in numerous languages.
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On average, every three weeks five to 15 new documents are added to a web site that features foreign language patient education materials. This number is far more than the partners in this project could each produce annually alone.
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When a home care patient is from another culture it is a good idea to learn as much as possible about his or her cultural beliefs before the visit ...
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As a case manager, you're likely to be one of the last people to see patients before they leave the hospital. This gives you the opportunity to make sure they understand their treatment regimen, their follow-up appointment, how to take their medicine, and other components ...
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When the patient education coordinators at The Ohio State University Medical Center, OhioHealth, and Mount Carmel in Columbus partnered to create translated educational handouts for patients limited in English proficiency they encountered a few problems.
