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Each hospice and each hospice employee will have moments when patient care fails to achieve all goals or when an unanticipated problem arises.
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One way for hospice managers to ensure their staffs are providing the highest quality care and following best practices is to define the optimal hospice visit and train staff to follow specific guidelines toward achieving that goal.
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While any type of home health work makes it more challenging to recognize and respect boundaries, it is particularly challenging for hospice workers who see people at the most intimate and difficult time in their lives.
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Licensed practitioners of all types who are employees of health care providers are often covered by malpractice insurance that is paid for by their employers.
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By John J. Caronna, MD
Vice Chairman, Department of Neurology, Cornell University Medical Center and Professor of Clinical Neurology, New York Hospital
Dr. Caronna reports no consultant, stockholder, speakers bureau, research, or other relationship related to this field of study.
Synopsis: Acute MRI is useful in making triage decisions for patients with TIA or minor stroke because it reliably divides such patients into benign, intermediate, and poor prognosis groups.
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By Matthew Fink, MD
Vice Chairman, Professor of Clinical Neurology, Weill Medical College, and Chief of Division of Stroke and Critical Care Neurology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Dr. Fink reports no consultant, stockholder, speakers bureau, research, or other relationship related to this field of study.
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As home health agencies look for ways to improve outcomes and increase their potential for success within a pay-for-performance (P4P) reimbursement system, disease management programs that allow staff members to specialize in care for specific types of patients may be the road to success for some agencies, according to experts.
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has unveiled a new interactive web-based tool that provides each state a way to evaluate its health care quality, thus providing another resource for benchmarking.
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HIV-1 adult treatment guidelines are updated; CMS extends coverage for some O2 patients
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