Home Health Redesign: A Proactive Approach to Managed Care

Home Health Redesign introduces home health providers to integrated ca re delivery systems and shows how to capture and control costs and out comes, how to deal with staffing issues, and how to gain accreditation from all relevant organizations, including the National Council for Q uality Assurance. Changes in documentation, information management, an d marketing and billing are addressed. Implementation issues, maintain ing the restructured organization, and quality assessment and improvem ent strategies such as benchmarking are covered. An abundance of pract ical tools, such as tracking tools, orientation outlines, job descript ions, and examples of documentation and competency assessment and perf ormance tools support the text.