Admission Pack - Home Health

This Admission Packet is designed for Medicare Certified Home Health patient admissions.  It includes:

• Start of Care OASIS Comprehensive Assessment
• Admission and Consent Form
• Communication Log
• Patient Education Book ($125 value)
• Drug Regimen Review
• Goals and Orders
• Home Health Aide Weekly Note
• Home Health Aide Care Plan Assignment

Type: Home Health, Topic: Clinical, OASIS

Check-Point Audit/Billing CD

This audit tool and process allows you to ensure compliance and timely billing.  The Check-Point CD contains instructions, process flow examples, and the audit tool itself.  End of episode billing will no longer be delayed because of unsigned verbal orders, missing notes, etc.

Type: Home Health, Topic:

Compliance Program - Hospice

Just released June 2011, the new Corporate Compliance Program manual has everything you need in order to implement a voluntary compliance program for your Hospice Agency.  Legislation has been proposed requiring a mandatory plan to be in place.  This product includes an electronic CD version that you can customize the program.  Also included is a recorded webinar with powerpoint slides to explain how to implement the program into your agency.  You will receive information on steps to facilitate the effort to comply with applicable Federal and State standards, as well as the requirements of private health care programs, through the establishment of an effective unlawful or improper conduct.

Just a few of the key benefits to implementing this program:

~fulfill legal duty that agency is not submitting false or inaccurate claims to government agencies

~provides a more accurate view of employee and contractor behavior relating to fraud and abuse

~improve quality, efficiency, and consistency of patient care

~create a centralized source for distributing information on health care statutes, regulations, and other program directives compliance program, and significantly reduces the risk of unlawful or improper conduct.
 

Type: Hospice, Topic: Operational

Decision Health - ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Coding Manual (Home Health)

The Complete Home Health ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Coding Manual gives you all codes, plus the standard brackets, italics and other coding conventions you expect. But it goes way beyond the basics to provide you a host of exclusive features that explain coding clearly and completely, so you can boost productivity and accuracy.

Topic: Operational, Clinical

Forms Manual - Home Health

The HH Forms manual  includes 7 sections for Home Health: Administration, Finance, Human  Resources, Patient Care, Quality, Infection Control, and Safety.  The forms manual includes, but is not limited to, nurse’s notes, staff evaluations and competency assessment forms, drug testing consent forms, contacts for independent and sub-contractors, admission and consent for services forms, discharge assessments, start of care assessments, transfers, annual agency evaluation, and many more.  The entire manual consists of over 200 forms to help cover every aspect of running an effective and compliant agency.

Type: Home Health, Topic: Operational, Clinical, OASIS

Human Resources Manual

The Human Resources Manual was created to help personnel in the Human Resources department organize their employee information, and obtain the appropriate documentation for their employee files.  This manual should serve as a backbone for the structure of your Human Resources department and can be adjusted to meet the needs of your specific agency. The manual includes seven sections: Pre-Hire Requirements, Hiring Requirements, Orientation Process, Education Plan, Employee Management, Contract Employees, and selected postings for your office.  The sections include forms,  sample policies, job descriptions, evaluations, and performance reviews.  It also includes contracts for contract employees and personnel file checklists.

Topic: Operational

Learning To Go for Aides Volume I

This audio series is designed to allow your aides to meet the CMS annual education requirements.  Volume I of this series includes 12 audio cds, printable handouts, test questions, and certificates of completion for each lesson.  With one purchase, you can educate all of your aides for the entire year.

Topics include:

• Patient Safety
• Patient Rights
• Infection Control
• Ethics
• Emergency Preparedness
• Cultural Diversity

HIPAA

and much more!

Topic: Operational, Clinical

Mini-Manual - FEDERAL Home Health

A mini-manual with the Federal regulations, Medicare chapter 7, OASIS Guidance, and useful resources pages.  This smaller sized binder is perfect to carry to all of your visits or to have a copy in the office. State editions also available for Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico that include state regulations.

Type: Home Health, Topic: Operational

Mini-Manual - OKLAHOMA Home Health

A mini-manual with the Federal regulations, Medicare chapter 7, OASIS Guidance, and useful resources pages.  This smaller sized binder is perfect to carry to all of your visits or to have a copy in the office. This Oklahoma edition also includes the home health regulations for the state of Oklahoma.

Type: Home Health, Topic: Operational

Mini-Manual - TEXAS Hospice

This is a mini-manual with the Medicare Conditions of Participation for Hospice care regulations for hospice care, the federal regulations for hospice care, Publication 21: The Hospice Manual, and a useful resources page that includes helpful websites. This Texas edition also includes the hospice regulations for the state of Texas.

Created by an ex-state surveyor, this handy tool is great for carrying around all the rules and regulations for reference at a moments notice. The notebook also has room at the bottom and sides of the pages for extra notes.  

*This tool is also available in a Home Health edition.

Type: Hospice, Topic: Operational

OASIS Assessments CD w/Audit Tool

This CD includes comprehensive assessments for all the OASIS timepoints.  Easily editable in Microsoft Word, you can customize these assessment to fit your agency and to flow along with your software for easy data entry.  Also included is the Outcomes and Process Measures audit tool to ensure best practices are being followed.

Type: Home Health, Topic: Clinical, OASIS

Orientation Manual - Home Health

The Home Health Orientation manual was created to orient new employees to the different facets of Home Health care.  Each chapter includes information on a different topic and concludes with a post test for the trainee.  There is an answer key for each test for the trainer to grade the trainee’s progress, and the test can then be placed in the employee file for future proof of education and training.  The Orientation Manual covers basics such as Advance Directives, Compliance and Documentation, to more in depth topics like Home Care 101, Oasis Assessment, Documentation and Audit, Performance Improvement, Oasis Start of Care Admission, and Public Reporting. This is both a great tool for providing both employee training, and a quick way to offer hour long in-services for weekly (or monthly) staff meetings.

TEXAS Specific Version of this product available upon request.

Type: Home Health, Topic: Operational, Clinical, OASIS

Patient Education Booklet - LICENSED / PAS AGENCY

The Patient Education Book was created with the intent of leaving the book in the patient’s home.  The book includes all the basics of home care so the patient can become familiar with the services they are about to receive.  It also includes their patient rights, information about a medical power of attorney and advance directives, and it also gives some helpful tips on disaster planning and safety in the home.

Type: Home Health, Topic: Operational

Policy & Procedure Manual - Home Health

Includes policies for HIPPA, Exposure Control and Compliance with the OIG recommendations. The manual is divided into 10 sections: Administration, Finance, Human Resources, Patient Care, Quality, Infection/ Exposure Control, Safety, Licensed, PAS, and Other.  Purchase includes quarterly updates for the remainder of the year.  (State regulations are cross-referenced for Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.) 

Type: Home Health, Topic: Operational

QAPI Manual - Home Health

The Home Health Quality Assessment Performance Improvement (QAPI) Manual was developed to aid agencies in being compliant with the requirements for QAPI.  The manual is very thorough, and one of the many benefits is that most of the meeting forms, logs, reports, etc. are completed in order to guide the flow of the meetings, and you simply fill in the details.  Each time you have a meeting, just open your CD, print a fresh copy, fill it out during the meeting, and file it when you are done. The 2012 QAPI Program contains new audits tools that focus on the Level 1 New Survey Protocol Focus.

Type: Home Health, Topic: Operational

Volunteer Training Manual

Set up to be led by an appointed instructor with students, this manual has 11 sections including: Overview of Hospice Services, The Role of the Volunteer, Confidentiality and Patient/Family Rights, Pain and Symptom Control, and Bereavement to name a few.  Each section will be prefaced with a sheet of “Instructor’s Tips” that will guide you, as the instructor, on how to administer the information to the students.  You can make each session as long or as short as you need to in order to meet the needs of your agency.  We do recommend, however, that you take at least one hour per session. 

Type: Hospice, Topic: Operational