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Rural Community-Based Home Health Care and Support Services - A White Paper
This white paper proposes to integrate traditional home health care, parish nursing and remote video technology (tele-home health care) as a three part co-operative community-based intervention to address the expanding unmet home health care and support needs in rural areas.
Tags: Montana State University, home health care, support services, health care, video
White papers
Billing and Information Systems: A Fast Turnaround for a Failing Home Health Care Agency
A home health agency had not been able to generate any billing during the last eight months and the client base had dropped from 100 to 15 due to a total information system failure to support the changes resulting from the implementation of PPS. There was a real sense of...
Tags: Strategy, Gentiva Health Services, information system, home health care, billing, agency, team
Case studies
Home Health Care Aide
The Home Health Care Aide job description template includes the following job summary: To provide home health care to assigned clients. Additional information available includes essential job functions, additional responsibilities, and education and experience requirements.
Tags: home health care, aide, job
Tools & templates 2007-09-09
How to Find Home Health Care That's Right for You
Home health care provides skilled nursing care, physical and occupational therapy, speech-language therapy, and medical social services in the comfort of home. Home health care is prescribed by doctors and is provided by a variety of health care professionals. Medicare covers home health care that is temporary and part-time. Home...
Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, home health care, therapy, health care, Medicare
White papers 2004-09-10
Medicare and Home Health Care
Medicare and Home Health Care are designed to help people find and compare home health agencies. It can help them and their families choose the agency that is best for you. It includes important information about eligibility for Medicare coverage of home health care, what Medicare does and doesn't cover,...
Tags: HEALTHCARE, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, home health care, Medicare, agency
White papers 2004-08-01
Home Health Care Patients: Data From the 2000 National Home and Hospice Care Survey
Approximately 1,355,300 patients were receiving home health care services from 7,200 agencies at the time of the 2000 NHHCS. 70 percent of home health care patients were ages 65 and older. Medicare was the primary payment source for most home care patients (52 percent), followed by Medicaid (20 percent) and...
Tags: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, home health care, patient, Medicaid, Medicare, payment, agency
White papers 2004-03-01
Rural Hospitals' Ability to Finance Inpatient, Skilled Nursing and Home Health Care
The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 dealt a severe financial blow to most rural hospitals by reducing Medicare payments for inpatient, outpatient, skilled nursing care, and home health care. The objective is to determine if rural hospitals have closed, raised prices, or ceased offering certain services as strategic responses to...
Tags: HEALTHCARE, home health care, hospital, Medicare, finance, survey, financial
White papers 2001-10-01
Rural Community-Based Home Health Care and Support Services
This white paper is intended to facilitate the sharing of ideas on issues relevant to community-based home health care needs and support services for rural residents. Specifically, the paper addresses the problem of unmet health care and support needs of a rapidly expanding rural elderly population. It is well known...
Tags: IT Services, Vertical industries, Montana State University, home health care, support services, health care
White papers 2001-08-01
Private Sector Delivery of Home Health Care in Ontario
This paper briefs about providing home health care in Ontario which is based on a private sector delivery model, which includes both for-profit and not-for-profit providers. This paper also examines the organizational differences and similarities between private sector providers of home health care in Ontario. In Ontario, publicly- funded home...
Tags: home health care, Ontario
White papers 2001-06-01

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Love Tornado
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In LOVE TORNADO (Harlem Moon/Broadway Books, $12.95), R&B singer-turned-evangelist Dr. Mable John and David Ritz are back dishing up soul, wit and charm at the Stay Out of the Kitchen Health Food Care. The novel's heroine, Albertina, becomes the guardian of 15-year-old rapper J Love. to...
Articles 2008-07-01
Letters to the editor
Futile demand I have a message for Bryan Bradshaw concerning his letter to the editor titled, "No Reason to Stay." Mr. Bradshaw, you say you're "demanding the government implement universal health care immediately." It reminded me of the time my daughter came home after...
Articles 2008-06-25
Instrumentation Laboratory Ships 1000th GEM Premier 4000 Analyzer to Scripps Health
LEXINGTON, Mass., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Instrumentation Laboratory IL today announced that it has shipped its 1000th GEM Premier 4000 critical care analyzer. The recipient for this instrument was Scripps Health, based in San Diego, CA. IL began shipping the new GEM Premier 4000 analyzers to customers...
Articles 2008-06-24
Going Online to Draw the Line on High Blood Pressure
Monitoring your blood pressure at home and reporting those results to a pharmacist via the Web helps keep blood pressure readings lower than standard care does, a new study found. In fact, more than half of people who used this system of blood pressure management were able to achieve normal...
Articles 2008-06-24
Sleep HealthCenters® Brings Sleep Testing Home!
BRIGHTON, Mass. -- Sleep HealthCenters, a network of specialized sleep medicine centers and the largest provider of such services in Massachusetts, has announced the expansion of their home sleep testing services and the availability of 24-hour turnaround at select locations! SHC has been performing home sleep testing for...
Articles 2008-06-24
L.A. seeing more people living out of cars
LOS ANGELES -- Having lost her job and her three-bedroom house, Darlene Knoll has joined the legions of downwardly mobile who are four wheels away from homelessness. She is living out of her shabby 1978 RV, and every night she has to look for a place to...
Articles 2008-06-24
Consult A Doctor Unveils Next Generation Consumer Driven Telemedicine Program for the Health Insurance Industry
Innovative Health Plan Program offers powerful solutions designed to reduce costs and provide members 24/7 access to physicians via phone, secure e-mail and online MIAMI, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- -- Access to Appropriate Care in Lowest Cost Setting Providing healthcare in the home, the least...
Articles 2008-06-23
Editorial: Rendell Budget for Mentally Disabled
One measure of a state budget is how well it takes care of people who can't fully care for themselves. By that standard, Gov. Rendell's proposed budget falls short for citizens with mental disabilities. The governor's spending plan for fiscal 2009 calls for no cost-of-living increase for community-based mental-health/mental-retardation services....
Articles 2008-06-23
CNA Presents Fresenius Medical Care North America with National Safety Award for 10th Consecutive Year
CHICAGO -- For the 10th consecutive year, CNA insurance companies presented its Safety in Excellence Award to Fresenius Medical Care North America, the North American subsidiary of Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA. CNA's award recognizes a company's national leadership and dedicated commitment to employee health, safety, loss prevention...
Articles 2008-06-23
Iraq's refugee crisis hitting women and children hard
BAGHDAD -- Women and children have been hit especially hard in Iraq's refugee crisis, often forced to beg and in some cases turn to prostitution to provide for their families because so many men have been killed, according to a new report. A biannual regional survey by...
Articles 2008-06-22
Spirits plunge amid onslaught of grim news
WASHINGTON -- Is everything spinning out of control? Midwestern levees are bursting. Polar bears are adrift. Gas prices are skyrocketing. Home values are abysmal. Airfares, college tuition and health care border on unaffordable. Wars without end rage in Iraq, Afghanistan and against terrorism. Horatio...
Articles 2008-06-22
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