-
Although diabetes is rarely the primary diagnosis for a home health admission, management of a patient's diabetes does play a key role in the patient's outcome.
-
A unique partnership between a health plan and a physician practice is helping patients with diabetes get the care and resources they need to manage their disease.
-
The Joint Commission has published corrected service applicability grids for home care services on its web site.
-
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is common in most hospitals, but a recent study shows that almost 13% of patients discharged from the hospital to home health care are infected with MRSA.
-
Although standard precautions are taught to home health employees, the importance of precautions rises with the increasing number of patients coming to home care with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs), such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
-
Although inpatient hospital care is common for elderly patients with worsening chronic heart failure (CHF), recent research supports home care over hospital care to avoid complications such as depression and functional decline.
-
A comprehensive case management program at Desert Oasis Healthcare that provides care coordination for patients throughout the continuum keeps patients healthier and out of the hospital. And it's cost effective.
-
-
As limited amounts of the first doses of novel H1N1 vaccine were expected to reach providers in early October, hospitals placed a top priority on vaccinating health care workers who provide care to the most vulnerable patients. Even health care workers who have had flu-like symptoms and were diagnosed with novel H1N1 should receive the vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
-
Will there be enough N95 filtering facepiece respirators to protect health care workers from the novel H1N1 virus?
