Hospital Home Health articles from June 2006

Hospital Home Health archives from June 2006

Improve outcomes, take step toward success with pay for performance.(disease management)
June 1, 2006... Improve outcomes, take step toward success with pay for performance Disease management programs reduce hospitalization and number of visits (Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series that looks at how disease management...

Abbreviations, falls risk top compliance issues.(surveys)
June 1, 2006... Abbreviations, falls risk top compliance issues Monitor staff for compliance Only 76.8% of home health agencies surveyed by the Oakbrook Terrace, IL-based Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations were found to be...

DM program keeps AIDS patients out of hospital.(Disease management)
June 1, 2006... DM program keeps AIDS patients out of hospital One-on-one education is the key to success An intensive one-on-one case management program helps people with AIDS stay adherent to their medication regime, avoid hospitalizations and...

Network targets barriers for unfunded patients.(medicaid services)
June 1, 2006... Network targets barriers for unfunded patients Strategies include paying for a lower level of care When patients at hospitals in Seton Healthcare Network are ready for discharge and don't have funding for post-discharge services, the...

Can surrogates really know patients' wishes?
June 1, 2006... Can surrogates really know patients' wishes? Just more than half of surrogates get it right Making end-of-life decisions for incapacitated patients most often falls to surrogates chosen by the patients, or to next of kin. But a recent...

News Briefs.
June 1, 2006... AHRQ launches web-based tool for state performance The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released an interactive web-based tool that presents data that can be used to measure health care quality. The State Snapshot web...

CE Objectives/Questions.
June 1, 2006... CE Objectives After reading each issue of Hospital Home Health, the reader will be able to do the following: 1. Identify particular clinical, ethical, legal, or social issues pertinent to home health care. 2. Describe how those...