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Changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act that passed in 2004 still may be under fire from opponents, but experts interviewed by Hospital Home Health say home health managers should not wait for any rollback of the rules.
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Many home health managers initially were apprehensive about periodic performance reviews (PPR), the self-evaluation required by the Joint Commission at the midpoint of an accreditation cycle. However, the response to the process following the implementation has been so positive that the Joint Commission will make the PPR an annual requirement beginning in 2006.
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The danger of the next influenza pandemic has become so crystal clear and ever present that the recently released federal pandemic influenza plan is considered something of a page turner among the normally dry reading requirements for health care providers.
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In response to concerns by health care attorneys and risk managers that information contained in a health care organizations periodic performance review (PPR) may be discoverable in a legal action, the Joint Commission developed these options to the PPR.
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Although the most common reasons for hospitalization among HIV patients in six hospitals nationwide are for comorbidities, there remains a significant rate of hospitalization for opportunistic infections (OIs), a new study says.
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As employers look at ways to deal with escalating health care costs, case managers likely will find themselves playing key roles. They will not, however, be the only ones in the game. Case managers complement disease managers as the two roles become integrated for more powerful care coordination.
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As part of its efforts to promote preventive care and appropriate management of chronic diseases, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida has begun the Recognizing Physician Excellence (RPE) program, which will reward physicians based on several criteria, including patient satisfaction, clinical quality and efficiency, and administrative efficiency.
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A Harvard Medical School study has found that current practice management strategies and financial arrangements have a limited impact on the quality of care for patients with diabetes.
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For as long as humans have been taking care of other humans who are sick or hurt, the rendering of solace and physical comfort has been the core from which all other types of aid have grown. But a nurse and ethicist in California says that ignoring the value of giving of solace and comfort amounts to turning away from the prime reason for the practice of medicine.
