Part Dedication
Part Foreword
Part Introduction
Part I Home Health Administration
Chapter 1 Home Health Administration: An Overview
Part II Standards for Home Health Agencies
Chapter 2 Medicare Conditions of Participation
Chapter 3 The Joint Commission’s Home Care Accreditation Program
Chapter 4 CHAP Accreditation: Standards of Excellence for Home and Community Based Health Care Organizations
Chapter 5 ACHC: Accreditation for Home Care and Alternate Site Healthcare Services
Chapter 6 National Home Caring Council Standards of Accreditation
Chapter 7 Certificate of Need and Licensure
Chapter 8 Credentialing: Organizational and Personnel Options for Home Care
Chapter 9 The Relationship of the Home Health Agency to the State Trade Association
Chapter 10 The National Association for Home Care and Hospice
Chapter 11 Visiting Nurse Associations of America: Empowering VNAs to Strengthen their Communities
Part II Clinical Issues
Chapter 12 Self-Care Systems in Home Health Care Nursing
Chapter 13 Computerized Clinical Documentation
Chapter 14 Home Telehealth: Improving Care and Decreasing Costs
Chapter 15 Implementing a Competency System in Home Care
Chapter 16 Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services
Chapter 17 Classification: An Underutilized Tool for Prospective Payment
Chapter 18 Clinical Care Classification (CCC) System: An Overview
Chapter 19 Omaha System: Improving the Quality of Practice and Decision Support
Chapter 20 A Patient Classification System for Emergency Events in Home Care
Chapter 21 Case Management
Chapter 22 Care Management: Disease Management and Managed Care
Chapter 23 Specialized Infusion and Ancillary Home Care Services
Chapter 24 Maternal Child Care Services
Part IV Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement
Chapter 25 Performance Improvement
Chapter 26 Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 27 Program Evaluation
Chapter 28 Effectiveness of a Clinical Feedback Approach to Improving Patient Outcomes
Chapter 29 Implementing Outcome Based Quality Improvement in the Home Health Agency
Chapter 30 Implementing Home Health Standards into Practice: An Overview of the Updated Standards
Chapter 31 Benchmarking and Home Health Care
Part V Management Issues in Home Health Administration
Chapter 32 Administrative Policy and Procedure Manual
Chapter 33 Strategies to Attract and Retain Quality Staff : Flextime and Clinical Ladders
Chapter 34 Evaluating Productivity
Chapter 35 Analysis and Management of Home Health Nursing Caseloads and Workloads
Chapter 35 Analysis and Management of Home Health Nursing Caseloads and Workloads
Chapter 36 Human Resource Management
Chapter 37 Transitioning Nurses to Home Care
Chapter 38 Staff Development in a Home Health Agency
Chapter 39 Community Based Long-Term Care: A Collaborative Approach
Part VI Financial Issues
Chapter 40 Understanding the Exposure of Home Health Care: An Insurance Primer
Chapter 41 Budgeting for Home Health Agencies
Chapter 42 Reimbursement
Chapter 43 How to Read, Interpret and Understand Financial Statements
Chapter 44 Management Information Systems
Part VII Legal/Ethical/Political Issues
Chapter 45 Legal Issues of Concern to Home Care Providers
Chapter 46 Understanding the Basics of Home Health Compliance
Chapter 47 The HIPAA Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information
Chapter 48 Bioethics: A Practical Guide for Home Care
Chapter 49 Participating in the Political Process
Part VIII Strategic Planning/Marketing/Survival Issues
Chapter 50 Strategic Planning
Chapter 51 Marketing: An Overview
Part IX Other Types of Relationships
Part 52 Grantsmanship in Home Health
Part 53 Home Care Volunteer Programs
Part 54 The Manager as Published Author: Tips on Writing for Publication
Part 55 Student Placements in Home Health Care Agencies: Boost or Barrier to Quality Patient Care?
Part 56 The Role of the Physician in Home Care
Chapter 57 Research in Home Health Agencies
Chapter 58 Integrating Palliative Care into Home Care Practice
Chapter 59 Hospice Care
Chapter 60 Safe Harbor: A Bereavement Program for Children, Teens and Their Families
Chapter 61 Adult Day Services – Home Care Partners
Chapter 62 Collaborative Efforts in the Community: Faith Community Nurses as Partners in Healing
Part X Meeting the Present Challenges and Continuing to Thrive in the Future
Chapter 63 Meeting the Present Challenges and Continuing to Thrive in the Future: Tips on How to Be Successful as an Administrator in Home Health and Hospice Care
Part Appendix A Abbreviations
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