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The most critical issue before, during, and after any emergency is communications, say the Florida home health managers who have faced multiple hurricanes during the 2004 hurricane season.
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Although the safety of employees and patients as well as the resumption of care to patients is a priority for a home health agency following an emergency, dont forget to address financial and regulatory issues that affect your agencys operation.
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Experts predict a larger role for telehealth in the health care industry as model programs demonstrate high patient/caregiver satisfaction and improved staff efficiency and quality of care.
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The good news for respondents to the 2004 Hospital Home Health Salary Survey is that 85% of survey respondents saw their salary increase between 1% and 6% in 2004.
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The devastation that Florida has experienced this hurricane season is unlike any the state has seen before. This month, Hospital Home Health relays the experience and lessons learned from one agency caught in the middle of Ivan, one of the more powerful storms. In future issues, stories of other agencies and additional suggestions for home health managers emergency plans will be shared.
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Hospitals are required to provide discharge planning services. Case managers who provide these types of services and agencies that receive referrals from hospitals must be aware of a possible type of fraud and abuse in the form of free discharge planning services.
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Florida has received an overwhelming response from hospitals offering the names of nurses willing to temporarily travel to the state to help relieve hurricane-weary nursing staff or assist with public health needs resulting from the four hurricanes that ravaged the state.
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Even though many small employers dont think they can afford to spend money on a workplace health and safety program based on OSHA mandates, very few can afford not to put at least some measures in from the beginning.
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Recent changes to OSHA requirements related to tuberculosis and respirator fit testing have prompted concern from many health care professionals who are responsible for the health and safety, including fit testing, of health care facility employees, a recent survey of occupational health nurses reveals.
