Home Care Agencies
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Changes in regional variation of Medicare home health care utilization and service mix for patients undergoing major orthopedic procedures in response to changes in reimbursement policy.

Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: Significant variation in regional utilization of home health (HH) services has been documented. Under Medicare's Home Health Interim and Prospective Payment Systems, reimbursement policies designed to curb expenditure growth and reduce ... Read more...

Technology and home care: implementing systems to enhance aging in place.

30 May 2009 The national healthcare agenda to improve efficiencies, reduce costs, provide high quality evidence and performance based care while simultaneously meeting stricter legal and regulatory requirements, has forced home care and hospice staff to change ... Read more...

Meeting the linguistic needs of urban communities.

29 Apr 2009 In a collaborative effort to address the linguistic disparities within communities, an urban public university, school of nursing (SON), and a certified home healthcare (HHC) agency partnered in an Influenza Initiative. Undergraduate nursing ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Home Care Agencies'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• CMS recognizes The Joint Commission for continued hospice deeming authority. 29 Jun 2009
• Changes in regional variation of Medicare home health care utilization and service mix for patients undergoing major orthopedic procedures in response to changes in reimbursement policy. Jun 2009
• Safety and emergency management: all of us play an important role. 30 May 2009
• Technology and home care: implementing systems to enhance aging in place. 30 May 2009
• Meeting the linguistic needs of urban communities. 29 Apr 2009
• Increasing admissions without increasing phone calls. 29 Apr 2009
• Discharge planning issues in hospitals: steering to preferred certified home health agencies and the risks of providing free discharge planning services to hospitals. 29 Apr 2009
• Leadership is the key to profitability in home health care. 29 Apr 2009
• Recruiters find success with innovative personalized recruitment approach. 29 Apr 2009
• The time for organizational development in home health care is now. 29 Apr 2009
• Effects of payment changes on trends in post-acute care. 3 Apr 2009
• Preventive home visit model targeted to specific care needs of ambulatory frail elders: preliminary report of a randomized trial design. 30 Mar 2009
• It's time to prune the roses. 30 Mar 2009
• Five good reasons why CMS's new CAHPS patient satisfaction survey is good for agencies and good for patients. 30 Mar 2009
• Hard times: the effects of financial strain on home care services use and participant outcomes in Michigan. 25 Mar 2009
• Proposed cuts rile home health. President Obama calls for $37 billion over 10 years. 7 Mar 2009
• Improving oral medication management in home health agencies. 27 Feb 2009
• One organization's journey to improved operations. 27 Feb 2009
• Nursing shortage predicted to be hardest on home healthcare. 27 Feb 2009
• Innovations in home care rehabilitation services: advancing best practices in care management and professional development. 27 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Home Care Agencies'

Definition: Public or private organizations that provide, either directly or through arrangements with other organizations, home health services in the patient's home. (Hospital Administration Terminology, 2d ed)

Descriptor UI: D018574

Alternative terms: Home Care Agencies; Agencies, Home Care; Agency, Home Care; Care Agencies, Home; Care Agency, Home; Home Care Agency; Home Health Care Agencies; Home Health Agencies; Agencies, Home Health; Agency, Home Health; Home Health Agency;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N03.540.483;

Online Note: use HOME CARE SERVICES to search HOME HEALTH AGENCIES 1978-94

History Note: 95; HOME HEALTH AGENCIES was see HOME CARE SERVICES 1978-94

Technical Notes: public or private agencies; coord IM with specific home care (IM)