Hospital Home Health Archives – March 1, 2004
March 1, 2004
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Sharpen your pencils: Nurses writing more as abbreviations disappear
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is asking home health nurses to break some habits theyve had since nursing school. National Patient Safety Goal #2 requires health care organizations to standardize abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols and to develop a list of do-not-use abbreviations. -
Hands-on classes = effective learning
Employees spread over a large geographic area, people who dont like sitting in one place for any length of time, patient visits that dont always follow a normal schedule, and a lengthy list of educational classes that staff members must take are just a few of the challenges faced by home health managers as they address staff education. -
HIPAA privacy rule: Myths and facts
During testimony late last year before the Department of Health and Human Services National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics Subcommittee on Privacy and Confidentiality, Janlori Goldman, director of the Health Privacy Project, presented 13 myths that persist about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Acts privacy regulation and facts addressing those myths. -
JCAHO strengthens infection standards
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has approved revised standards to help prevent the occurrence of deadly health care-associated infections. -
LegalEase - Nonmonetary gifts for referrals? Know the law
Discharge planners and case managers certainly cannot accept cash payments from providers in exchange for referrals of patients. But what about noncash items that have a relatively low value and that providers who receive referrals are not obligated to provide to case managers? Can case managers accept such items? -
News Briefs
Two-page advance beneficiary notice gone; New Jersey offers caregiver web site; MedPAC: No payment update for home health; CMS describes HIPAA authorization form; Medicare covers test for colorectal cancer