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Home Health & Hospice Medicare Quality
Regulations
Medicare Home Health & Hospice
Coverage and Payment Policies
Clinical Tools and
Training
- Dramatically Reducing Hospitalization Rates: "What Works, What Doesn't"
The power point presentation and patient guides offered here
were created by Middlesex-East VNA. During a NAHC sponsored
webinar, the VNA shared details of how they reduced their re-hospitalization
rate to 16% through "Management of Successful Patient Outcomes." A
CD of this 90 minute 4/8/2010 NAHC webinar can be purchased
by calling KRM at: (800) 775-7654. (Handout
PDF)
- OASIS-C Best Practice Manual
This manual contains recommendations on best practice strategies, practices and tips
for generating more accurate OASIS assessments. The contents
of this manual is intended to serve as the foundation for OASIS
trainings and for informed decision making by clinicians when
collecting OASIS-C data.
www.fazzi.com/oasis/OASIS-C_Best_Practice_Manual.pdf
- CHAMP Program
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) is a member of the National Advisory Panel for the CHAMP program to improve the nation's geriatric homecare practice. CHAMP (Curricula for Homecare Advances in Management & Practice)
is an evidenced-based best practices program specifically designed for frontline
nurse and therapy homecare managers at Medicare-certified home health agencies.
The CHAMP program web site www.champ-program.org/. This site includes such things
as best-practice information, online courses, and an opportunity for clinicians
to share knowledge and experience via an online national forum to support quality
improvement efforts by home care organizations.
- Health Coaching Made Easy for Healthcare Providers
A convenient, self-instructional program of study designed to provide clinicians skills, techniques and tools to guide patients and consumers through health coaching to better self-manage their chronic conditions and improve health outcomes. Program materials contain quick quizzes and concept applications in workbook style along w/ an audio CD. 8.2 CE contact hours are offered at program completion for nurses and physical therapists. The online certification exam is optional, but recommended.
Website: www.nshcoa.com
Email: info@nshcoa.com
Phone: 931.308.8762
Program content: www.nshcoa.com/
healthcoachtrainingcertification/ about.php
How to order: www.nshcoa.com/
healthcoachtrainingcertification/ membership.php
- Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing
www.hartfordign.org
- Influenza Information for Healthcare
Personnel
www.cdc.gov/
ncidod/ dhqp/ id_influenza_vaccine.html
- Dementia Care Practice
Recommendations for Professionals Working in a Home Setting.
This manual offers best practice
recommendations for professionals providing care in a
home setting. The recommendations represent
the latest research as well as the experience of care
experts. www.alz.org/
national/ documents/ Phase_4_Home_Care_Recs.pdf.
Clinical and Regulatory
Publications by NAHC
NAHC Career Center
- NAHC’s Home Care
Career Center offers a listing of a variety of clinical job
opportunities by geographic region
www.nahc.org/JobExchange/
Nursing Resources
Associations
Journals
Therapy Resources
Associations
Speech Language Pathologist
Resources
Clinical Information
and Best Practice Resources
Medline Plus, which is a service of the
National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes
of Health, offers links to answers about health
questions, including extensive information about drugs, an
illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials,
and the latest health news. www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
Medicare Quality Improvement Community:
Home Health (MedQIC) Web site is a free on-line resource
for quality improvement interventions and associated tools,
toolkits, presentations, and links to other resources www.qualitynet.org
Food and Drug Administration: Home Health and Consumer Devices: The FDA regulates medical devices that consumers use themselves
without professional medical assistance in the same way as
other medical devices. In addition to work done throughout
the medical device approval process, the Home Health Care
Committee reviews what has been done to address problems
when devices are used in the home and recommends further
actions to ensure consumers can use the devices safely and
effectively.
FDA Home Health and Consumer Devices: Online
Outside
Resources for Sale
Briggs Corporation
Ordering Information: Briggs Corporation, 7300 Westown Parkway,
suite 100 West Des Moines, IA 50266. 1.800.247.2343
Order Online!
- Fall Prevention Program – stock no. 8500
- An Evidence-Based Fall Prevention Program provides tools
that can result in reduced hospitalizations, improved fall
outcomes and increased referrals.
Marrelli and Associates, Inc.
Ordering Information: Marrelli & Associates, Inc.,P.O. Box
629, (941) 697-2900, Boca Grande, FL 33921-0629, www.marrelli.com
- Hospice and Palliative Care Handbook: Quality, Compliance,
and Reimbursement
Second Edition. The handbook provides
concise information about hospice and palliative
care conditions for care planning and reimbursement.
(528 pages).
- The Handbook of Home Health Orientation
This handbook was written to serve as an adjunct to home health agency-specific
orientation. (435 pages).
- Nursing Documentation Handbook
Third Edition. This book presents examples and guidelines
of nursing documentation easily referenced by a patient’s
clinical problems. (472 pages).
- The Nurse Manager’s Survival Guide: Practical Answers
to Everyday Problems
Third Edition. The Nurse Manager’s
Survival Guide discusses major areas of successful
management, including recruitment and retention,
communication, time management, day-to-day operations,
and resource management. (395 pages).
- Home Health Aide: Guidelines for Care: A Handbook for Caregiving
at Home (Aide Handbook)
Second Edition. This easy-to-use handbook
for home health and hospice aides offers information
about the role and qualities of a successful
aide, the home health care team, documentation
requirements, safety and infection control
in home care, and more. (234 pages).
- Home Health Aide: Guidelines for Care: Instructor Manual
Second Edition. A comprehensive guide
to teach home health and hospice aides, this resource
is the companion text to accompany Home Health
Aide: Guidelines for Care (the handbook for
aides). (312 pages).
- The Handbook of Home Health Standards & Documentation
Guidelines for Reimbursement
This handbook is a complete guide to providing quality care and effective documentation
through detailed documentation guidelines, including ICD-9-CM, service skills,
factors supporting homebound status, discharge plans, and specific tips for reimbursement.
(680 pages).
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