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Q: If you admit a patient to home health services and the patient is subsequently referred to outpatient therapy, can you continue any part of the plan of care?
Q: If you admit a patient to home health services and the patient is subsequently referred to outpatient therapy, can you continue any part of the plan of care? A: Trips outside the home for outpatient therapy, since they are made to receive medical treatment that cannot be provided in the home, do not affect [...]
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Q: If you admit a patient to home health services and patient is subsequently referred to outpatient therapy, can you continue any part of the plan of care?
Thu, Jan 20, 2011
Q: If you admit a patient to home health services and patient is subsequently referred to outpatient therapy, can you continue any part of the plan of care? A: Trips outside the home for outpatient therapy, since they are made to receive medical treatment that cannot be provided in the home, do not affect the [...]
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Q: What is causing us to be reflected so poorly on our process measure reports in regard to something we have always done right?
Thu, Jan 13, 2011
Q: I accessed our quality measures report and found that we are only 22% effective on the timely initiation of care measure. All of our patients are admitted within 24 hours of referral or resumption of care. What is causing us to be reflected so poorly on something we have always done right? A: The [...]
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Q: If the patient is totally totally left alone, most of the answers in the functional item will be zero, especially transferring and ambulation. It seems to reflect that the patient is not homebound if I answer 0 in dressing upper, lower body, bathing, transferring and ambulation. Am I correct?
Wed, Dec 29, 2010
Q: It’s hard for me to answer the functional assessment item. If the patient is totally totally left alone, most of the answers in the functional item will be zero, especially transferring and ambulation. It seems to reflect that the patient is not homebound if I answer 0 in dressing upper, lower body, bathing, transferring [...]
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Compliance Conundrum?
Thu, Dec 23, 2010
Beacon Health needs your help! Please let us know if you would be interested in speaking with us about this great opportunity. Do you have a compliance issue at your agency that needs to be solved? Let us help you solve it. Beacon Health’s newsletter, Homecare Administrator, is looking for someone with a troubling compliance [...]
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Authors, Contributors Needed!
Fri, Dec 17, 2010
Beacon Health needs your help! Please let us know if you would be interested in speaking with us about these great opportunities. We are looking for an author to write our 2011 book on Reducing Rehospitalizations in Home Care. This book will assist home care leaders and staff in assessing and treating patients to reduce [...]
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Fri, Jan 28, 2011
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