Hospital Home Health articles from March 2002

Hospital Home Health archives from March 2002

21st century tools: telehomecare cuts staff costs, gathers quality information: combination of virtual and real visits provides good care.
March 1, 2002... In George Orwell's 1984, Big Brother was able to look into people's homes and know what they were doing and how they were feeling. While telehomecare is not as intrusive as the technology Orwell imagined, it does give home health personnel an...

CE questions.(continuing medical education questions)
March 1, 2002... Save your monthly issues with the CE questions in order to take the two semester tests in the March and September issues. A Scantron sheet will be inserted in those issues, but the questions will not be repeated. 21. According to Stanley...

CDC tries to clean up hand-washing guidelines: waterless washing under review.(Centers for Disease Control)
March 1, 2002... The most significant change in the hand hygiene guidelines currently under review by the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta is the recommended use of waterless,...

Effective recruiting = successful retention: work environment, respect, appreciation keep staff.
March 1, 2002... Just like peanut butter and jelly, recruitment and retention are two words that always seem to go together. Home health managers rarely talk about one without the other, and with good reason, according to experts who talked to Hospital Home...

It takes flexibility to manage end-of-life pain: when medication doesn't succeed, trial, trial again.
March 1, 2002... The goal of pain management is the same, whether patients are at the end stage of life or are recovering from surgery. "In all instances, the goal for pain management should be to help the patient be as comfortable as possible while keeping...

Q&A: learn the difference between anthrax and flu.
March 1, 2002... Q. Influenza and inhalation anthrax can have similar symptoms. Does the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend getting a flu shot to help diagnose anthrax? A. A person should get a flu shot only to prevent the flu. CDC...

Getting to the root of the staffing shortage problem. (LegalEase understanding laws, rules, regulations).
March 1, 2002... Agency managers diligently are trying to work the kinks out of the prospective payment system (PPS). After some of the current difficulties providers are encountering during early implementation of PPS are resolved, it appears that the industry...

Conference replays offer educational opportunity.
March 1, 2002... Have you missed one of American Health Consultants' recent audio conferences? If so, two upcoming conference replays offer another opportunity to take advantage of excellent continuing education opportunities for your entire facility. ...

Group purchaser requires bar codes on medications.(Premier Inc.)
March 1, 2002... In an effort to reduce medical errors, Premier Inc. in Springfield, VA, which operates one of the nation's largest group-purchasing organizations serving hospitals, will require group contracts that cover medications and biological products to...

CAH numbers experience a big jump in past year. (News Briefs).(critical access hospitals)
March 1, 2002... The number of critical access hospitals (CAH) increased 69% in 2001, as struggling rural hospitals identify the program as a means toward financial viability. The number of CAHs jumped by 211 in 2001 to a total of 526, according to...

HIPAA is top concern, say hospital IT leaders. (News Briefs).(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; information technology)
March 1, 2002... Information technology (IT) leaders at health care institutions say their top priorities for the next year are upgrading security to meet Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements and building systems that promote...

Software vendors say they're ready for HIPAA. (News Briefs).(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
March 1, 2002... Most of the leading health care information technology (IT) software companies expect their products to be Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant by the October 2002 deadline. That's the conclusion of a study...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
March 1, 2002... The Home Health Business Quarterly supplement in the January 2002 issue of Hospital Home Health, incorrectly reported that New York Health Care (NYHC) in Brooklyn, NY, had completed a deal to buy the Bio Balance Corp. The purchase of Bio...