Hospital Home Health Archives – July 1, 2007
July 1, 2007
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It's a good idea, but will it work? How to evaluate a new service
As home health agencies prepare for success within a pay-for-performance environment, ideas for new services or redesigned existing services are popping up everywhere. -
NPs bridge gap between discharge and first visit
Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series that describe how two different agencies use nurse practitioners in their program. -
Get creative in dealing with long-stay patients
Through the efforts on an interdisciplinary team, the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics has been able to shrink the number of patients who remain in the hospital for 30 days or longer from an average of 60 or 70 in-house each day to an average of 20 or fewer. -
Home visits help members avoid preterm births
A combination of telephonic case management and home visits has helped Optima Health decrease preterm births and low-birth-weight infants. -
CM program keeps preterm delivery rate low
A program that targets women at risk for premature deliveries for case management has paid off for ConnectiCare, a regional HMO based in Farmington, CT. -
News Briefs
Thirteen states and the District of Columbia will get more than $547 million in grants over five years to build Medicaid long-term care programs that will help keep people at home and out of institutions.