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Understanding Risk In Your Homecare Population: Remember To Protect Your Patients...
As we continue to deal with the effects to family, friends, and ourselves, we must also consider the effects of Covid on our patients. You may be thinking this is an everyday thing! However, often this focus is about the virus and not about the...
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A Paradigm Shift for Home Health: A New Dream
Ginny's Blog: For years I have dreamed of a day when home health nurses and therapists would be in charge of their own services and doctors would be part of the team but not the “directors” of the plan. It has never made sense to me that a...
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What’s In An ICD 10 Code?Do You Write Care Plans For...
An ICD 10 code is more than just a few digits on a 485. We may know this from a reimbursement standpoint, but not always consider it from the clinical end. I'm going to age myself a bit and rewind to a time when nurses did their own coding which...
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Working Through The Care Plan: Drill Down To Why You Aren’t...
Today, your EMR care plan isn't necessarily a true depiction of what you want to accomplish in the home. Home health agencies realize that goals aren't met unless ALL the goals are met. Unfortunately, because the construction of the care plan is...
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Home Health Nursing: Putting The Care Plan Back In The Nurse’s...
In today's world, home health nursing is more skilled and the medical home model is more and more a reality in the present and future of home care. In that mix, somewhere the power of the skilled clinicians in the home has lost some momentum. Why...
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Care Planning Under PDGM: Why Getting It Wrong Is Not An...
It is a brand new year in home health. We are on our second day of PDGM and you have probably admitted new patients. So, what is different about your care planning process today versus two days ago? If care planning process has evolved in the last...
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