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Health care organizations aware of their need for systemic change but short on the capital required increasingly are taking a two-pronged approach: Make some quick revenue-producing hits first, and then implement the longer-term solutions. Thats just one of the strategies in place at Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas.
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Implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act privacy rule appears to be going surprisingly well, thanks to extensive planning and a public already used to being informed about privacy practices. Thats the consensus of a sampling of access managers who spoke with Hospital Access Management about their hospitals experience with the regulation.
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Access managers with responsibility for emergency department registration will want to be aware of the proposed new ED overcrowding standard from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations that could become effective in early 2004.
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This column runs occasionally in Hospital Access Management and addresses questions regarding the Emergency Medical Treatment
and Labor Act.
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OIGs EMTALA fines continue downward trend; HFMA issues status report on billing project; JCAHO hospital standards reduced to 225 from 508; Survey: Providers ready for October HIPAA deadline; Prompt-pay legislation signed by Texas governor; Hospitals doing good job, say majority of Americans
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Six percent of home care, community, and public health nurses in the United States use addictive prescription drugs without a prescription, and 16% binge drink, which means they drink at least five drinks in one sitting.
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This is the first of a two-part series that looks at home health aide retention issues such as training, supervision, and benefits. In this article, experts talk about factors that motivate and retain aides. In next months article, innovative programs that enhance aide education and tips on improving retention will be presented.
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The benefit of animal companions for cardiac patients was documented as long ago as 1995 in a study that showed the one-year survival rate for heart attack patients who owned pets was significantly higher than for heart attack patients who did not own pets.
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This is the second of a two-part LegalEase column that addresses home health agency risk management concerns related to telehealth. Last months article examined liability related to negligence and offered tips on how home health agency managers can protect their agencies. This months column covers how agencies can protect themselves from charges of abandonment.
