Handbook of Home Health Care Administration


Handbook of Home Health Care Administration by Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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Handbook of Home Health Care, Fifth Edition has been completely revised and updated to provide up-to-date, specific, authoritative guidance for the successful administration and management of home health care agencies. An excellent, comprehensive text, this Handbook addresses detailed legal and legislative issues, case management processes, and state-of-the-art technology. The Fifth Edition provides new chapters on preparing for an emergency, implementing scope and standards of practice into daily practice, health services within home care, as well as new information on ethics related to durable medical equipment(DME) and the Omaha classification system. Read more...

Handbook of Home Health Standards - Revised Reprint: Quality, Documentation, and Reimbursement (Handbook of Home Health Standards & Documentation Gdelines ()


Handbook of Home Health Standards - Revised Reprint: Quality, Documentation, and Reimbursement (Handbook of Home Health Standards & Documentation Gdelines () by Mosby

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Handbook of Home Health Standards: Quality, Documentation, and Reimbursement includes everything the home care nurse needs to provide quality care and effectively document care based on accepted professional standards. This handbook offers detailed standards and documentation guidelines including ICD-9-CM (diagnostic) codes, OASIS considerations, service skills (including the skills of the multidisciplinary health care team), factors justifying homebound status, interdisciplinary goals and outcomes, reimbursement, and resources for practice and education. The fifth edition of this "little red book" has been updated to include new information from the most recently revised Federal Register Final Rule and up-to-date coding. All information in this handbook has been thoroughly reviewed, revised, and updated. Read more...

Client Teaching Guides for Home Health Care (Gorman, Client Teaching Guides for Home Health Guides)


Client Teaching Guides for Home Health Care (Gorman, Client Teaching Guides for Home Health Guides) by Jones & Bartlett Pub

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This updated Third Edition of Client Teaching Guides for Home Health Care includes all the new information on medications, nutrition, and NANDA nursing diagnosis. This book is in a quick reference, easy-to-read format makes this a great guide for nursing students to become familiar with the more common conditions and issues they will face with patients on a daily basis. Read more...

Home Health Moisturizing Cream, Hyaluronic Acid, with Restorative Hydration Complex, 4-Ounces


Home Health Moisturizing Cream, Hyaluronic Acid, with Restorative Hydration Complex, 4-Ounces by Home Health

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Including retinol and vitamins. Paraben free. Fragrance free. For youthful, healthy-looking skin, Hyaluronic Acid Moisturizing Cream with Restorative Hydration Complex can help. Hyaluronic Acid is naturally found in the skin, where it helps to maintain elasticity by trapping moisture, which in turn may smooth the appearance of wrinkles. Home Health's Hyaluronic Acid Moisturizing Cream has a specially formulated blend of nourishing ingredients including Retinol, plus the antioxidant protection of Green Tea and Vitamin C. Gentle yet effective, this paraben-free, fragrance-free cream absorbs quickly into the delicate areas of the paraben-free, fragrance-free cream absorbs quickly into the delicate areas of the skin surrounding the neck and face for a beautiful complexion that truly radiates. Free of parabens, artificial fragrance, artificial colors, animal products. Unconditionally guaranteed. Read more...

Talk frankly with aging parents about health care
USA Today - Jul 31, 2011
Talk frankly with aging parents about health care

Sara Carley, then 94, ended up in the hospital and rehab for a couple of weeks and then a nursing home -- which none of them wanted. The answer for them was hiring a caregiver with Home Instead Senior Care, a national firm that provides services to


Arizona middle-class struggling, doing without health care
AZ Central.com - Jul 31, 2011
Arizona middle-class struggling, doing without health care

Dwindling job security, reduced home values and higher personal health costs have brought untold stress into many middle-class lives. Health-care issues, in particular, have been a major source of distress.


ujJefferson County Public Health to increase rates for home visits
WatertownDailyTimes.com - Jul 29, 2011
ujJefferson County Public Health to increase rates for home visits

Due to increasing personnel and transportation costs and state fees, Jefferson County Public Health will increase charges for homes visited through its Certified Home Health Agency and Long-Term Home Health Care Program.


Amedisys Home Health Care Receives Pay-for-Performance Award from CMS
MarketWatch (press release) - Jul 28, 2011

On July 5, CMS announced it is sharing nearly $15 million in health care savings with more than 100 Home Health Agencies (HHAs) that participated in the intervention group of the two-year Medicare Home Health Pay for Performance (HHP4P) demonstration.


States cut home health services for seniors

20.07.11

Shaya Mohajer and John Seewer

LOS ANGELES - The families across the United States as states are concerned with gaping budget deficits, cuts in home health services that help keep the elderly and the disabled from nursing homes.

States are reducing how long a nurse can make internal calls and stop the delivery of meals for the home. Many are also gutting adult day care programs that give older people a safe place while their parents are at work.

Born with cerebral palsy, Jennifer McPhail is based on a home health assistant to help her get dressed for work and ready for bed at night.His motorized wheelchair keeps her active, working as an organizer of the disability rights group in Austin, Texas. She now fears deep cuts in state spending Medicaid will prevent him from living independently.

Source: The Boston - Bay State Banner

Home health care, principles and practices Home health care, principles and practices

Creator: John Stricklin Spratt, Rhonda L. Hawley, Robert E. Hoye | 1997

With chapters that cover everything from historical perspective and systems approach to case management contracting and legal aspects, this is the first book ...
About this book
Twenty-nine practitioners combine their expertise to bring clarity to an issue that is at the forefront of discussion-home health care. The field is emerging & is growing faster than most professionals & their patients can keep up with. Here is a text in which the authors make every effort to provide...

Report Calls for Improvement in Home Health Care

July 18, 2011 -- Home health care is a growing trend, allowing many people in need of medical services to avoid hospitalization and nursing homes. But improvements are needed to be sure that care at home is safe and effective, according to a new report from the National Research Council.

"There is a great opportunity to provide quality health care in the home for any of a variety of people in our population, from the very young to the very old," says David H. Wegman, MD, emeritus professor of work environment at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He chaired the National Research Council committee which issued the report.

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