Hospital Home Health Archives – August 1, 2008
August 1, 2008
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HHA managers face difficult decisions in financial crises
It's a tough time to be a home health manager. For years, you've implemented new processes and new services designed to strengthen your agency, but it's hard to fight an economic environment that is forcing all industries to reevaluate how they conduct business. -
Communicate clearly when closing a service
Closing a home health agency branch office or an entire service line is more than just a business decision. The action affects a wide range of people with whom close relationships have developed over the years, so the timing and type of communication is important. -
How many "sacred cows" are still in your pasture?
This is the second article of a two-part series on how to reduce the risk of infection for patients with indwelling bladder catheters. -
States expanding CD-PAS programs to offer flexibility
Consumer direction of personal assistance services (CD-PAS) can offer Medicaid beneficiaries flexibility and independence to individualize their services. Analysts recognize that having greater control over these services is a high priority for some, but not all, disabled Medicaid beneficiaries. -
Comfort Pack reduces anxiety, improves care
An overnight delivery of pain medication that took four days and a charge of $125 for eight pills from a hospital pharmacy are two of the reasons that the staff at Hospice of the Hills in Rapid City, SD, started looking for a new way to help patients with emergency needs. -
Case management starts at ICU, goes through discharge
Anna Gibson, RN, CDMS, a case manager specializing in catastrophic injuries and rehabilitation, typically gets a call when a catastrophically injured worker has just arrived at an acute care hospital and has been admitted to the intensive care unit. -
News Briefs
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed changes to the Medi-are hospice wage index for FY 2009.