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Everyone makes mistakes; but when mistakes are made routinely by home care nurses gathering information for the Outcomes and Assessment Information Set (OASIS), your agencys bottom line is affected.
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Its not unlike studying for an exam. You know that the exam is approaching, and you do some studying to prepare; but its usually at the last minute that you really push yourself to focus on preparation for the exam.
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Help from children keeps elderly parents at home; JCAHO re-approved as hospice accrediting body
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Question: Will we need to buy new computers in order to run security software that is compliant with the security rule?
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This is the first of a two-part LegalEase column that addresses home health agency risk management concerns related to telehealth.
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A thorough health assessment is necessary for any home care patient, but the assessment of a pediatric asthma patient needs to look at a wide range of issues to make sure the treatment plan is effective, according to experts interviewed by Hospital Home Health.
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Its not just a case of a little breathing problem. There are 6.3 million children younger than 18 with asthma.1 Asthma rates in children younger than 5 increased more the 160% between 1980 and 1994.2 In 2000, 4.6 million outpatient visits related to asthma involved children.
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West Nile virus was of no concern to residents of North America until the summer of 1999, when it seemingly inexplicably struck in Queens, NY. The approximately 2700 cases of WNV meningoencephalitis reported through 2002 made it the largest such epidemic ever documented anywhere in the world.