Hospital Home Health 2004-12-01

Supervisors and managers are the keys to employee retention

This is the second of a two-part series that addresses strategies of home health agencies, which can be used to successfully recruit and retain qualified employees. This month, we provide tips for successful retention of employees by making sure you hire the right supervisor or manager.

Retain good employees by showing them you care

There are five steps managers can take to make sure they are demonstrating caring behavior toward employees.

Flu vaccine for health care workers: Liability factors

The severe nationwide shortage of killed flu vaccine has put a stop, at least temporarily, to initiatives in some places that would force health care workers to be vaccinated or risk their jobs, but some health care experts warn that the solution advocated by at least one state that health care workers forego the vaccine entirely so that more is available for higher-risk groups could be dangerous to the very people it aims to protect.

Hands off or on when it comes to patient care?

For as long as humans have been taking care of other humans who are sick or hurt, the rendering of solace and physical comfort has been the core from which all other types of aid have grown. But a nurse and ethicist in California says that ignoring the value of giving of solace and comfort amounts to turning away from the prime reason for the practice of medicine.

Inappropriate meds still prescribed to the elderly

Many elderly Americans still are being prescribed potentially inappropriate medications, according to a study published in the August issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

LegalEase: Patients’ right to freedom of choice of providers

Regulators have indicated they are serious about patients right to freedom of choice of providers. Specifically, the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published draft supplemental compliance guidance for hospitals.

CMS initiates Scope of Work quality program

A new proposal for its quality improvement organizations has been unveiled by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Prepare your agency for a very unusual flu season

With the unprecedented shortage of influenza vaccine this flu season, hospitals are scrambling to prepare for what may be a record number of flu patients presenting to their already overcrowded emergency departments and for staff shortages due to record absenteeism.

Hospital Home Health Archives – December 1, 2004

December 1, 2004