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One crucial difference between home care and institutional care is that field staff essentially work without routine, direct supervision. The cost of providing direct supervision for staff as they provide services to home-care patients clearly is prohibitive. Consequently, providers are vulnerable to claims that they failed to adequately supervise staff.
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It took about 18 months of hard work, but the staff at Visiting Nurse Association of Southeast Michigan in Oak Park found the solution to the recruitment and retention problem that made the agency look like a revolving door for registered nurses.
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This periodic column addresses specific questions related to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) implementation.
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They still graze in and around your agency, but an increasing number of home health managers are starting to look critically at sacred cows that need to be put out to pasture.
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CMS unveils cyber-help to assist providers; Nursing group offers
hospice grant; NHS spends £50M more on terminal cancer care; CMS begins effort to stop wheelchair benefit abuse; Agencies not prepared for HIPAA transaction rules
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Will that new supply of coffee mugs, calendars, note pads, and pens engraved with your hospices name and phone number make physicians or their nurses refer to you? Probably not, according to experts.
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One of the more intriguing prospects for hospices participation in a broader continuum of palliative or end-of-life care is collaboration with PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) sites.
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Pinellas Park, FL, a suburban enclave nestled between Tampa Bay and the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, has become the epicenter of the debate over euthanasia.
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