The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. July 13, 2022
Educational Session: Video - Selecting the right software for Private Duty Nursing
Private Duty Nursing is different from your traditional home health as it requires skilled care for medically fragile patients. The care is typically provided in longer shifts from 8 to 12 hours and for a limited number of patients over a longer period of time. In the Private Duty Nursing field, the nurse or LPN gets to know the patient as a person and can really become quite attached to their patient. The care provided can be in multiple settings such as the patient's home, school, or even a group home setting.
The unique nature of private duty nursing necessitates specific software features.
In the third article in the series on how home care agencies can navigate staffing challenges, we look at how scheduling, communications, clinical documentation, alerts and validations at the point of care must integrate on one platform to help you utilize resources optimally.
In the second article in the series on how home care agencies can navigate staffing challenges, we look at how efficient authorization management and scheduling can help home care agencies to get the most out of limited resources. CareVoyant offers excellent integrated scheduling, authorization, clinical documentation, RCM, and payroll functions that reduce workload and improve operational efficiency.
Home Healthcare Industry News
Why Hospitals with Nearby Home Health Agencies Have Higher Readmission Rates
A new study from researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center found that hospitals with a greater local supply of home health agencies were associated with increased readmissions.
One of the reasons readmission rates were higher in those areas may be due to frequent staffing changes and other interruptions in care, according to the study’s lead author.
New Oncology, Primary Care Models Could Offer Risk-Based Avenues for Home-Based Care Providers
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are taking steps to improve oncology care and primary care.
While both are not directly related to home-based care, the federal government pushing this agenda should pique providers’ interest. After all, both primary and oncology care have been woven into the home-based care landscape more and more over the last few years.
NAHC Asks CMS to Continue to Allow Nurses to Certify Home Health
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and a group of likeminded organizations have written to Brian Slater, director of the Division of Home Health and Hospice in the Center for Medicare Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to reiterate strong support for the authority of nurse practitioners (NPs) and clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) to order and certify home health services for Medicare beneficiaries.
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