Handbook of Home Health Care Administration

by Marilyn D. Harris

Overview

Handbook of Home Health Care Administration, Sixth Edition is a comprehensive text that reflects the current state of home health care administration. With contributions from leading experts in the field, it addresses key aspects of home health care, including finance, human resource development, legal and ethical issues, management information systems, marketing, quality management, research, and current technology for patient care.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781284110760
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	09/22/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	890
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

Marilyn D. Harris, RN, MSN, CNAA-BC, FAAN, served as the Executive Director of Abington Memorial Hospital Home Care in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania for 22 years. The recipient of many state and national association awards, Ms. Harris has more than four decades of experience in home care She is author, or coauthor, of more that 150 article including chapters, manuals, and four previous editions of the Handbook of Home Health Care Administration. She has presented over 50 papers on home care issues at conferences including an invitational conference in The Netherlands.

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction * Home Health Administration * Home Health Administration: An Overview * The Home Health Agency * STANDARDS for HOME HEALTH AGENCIES * Medicare Conditions of Participation * The Joint commission’ s Home Care Accreditation Program * CHAP Accreditation: Standards of Excellence for Home Care and Community health Organizations * Accreditation by the Foundation for Hospice and Home Care, National Home Caring Council * Certificate of Need and Licensure * Professional Credentialing for Home Care/Hospice Personnel * The Relationship of the Home Health Agency to the State Trade Association * The National Association for Home Care * CLINICAL ISSUES * Self-Care systems in Home Health Care Nursing * Home Health Care Documentation and Recordkeeping * Computerized Clinical Documentation * Implementing a Competency System in Home Care * A Patient Classification Outcome Criteria System * Classification: A Tool for Managed Care Analysis and Management of Home Health Nursing Caseloads and Workloads * The Home Health Care Classification of Nursing: Diagnoses and Interventions * Nursing Diagnoses in Community Health Nursing * Maternal-Child Health Program * High-Technology Home Care Services * Discharge of a Ventilator-Dependent Child from the Hospital to Home * QUALITY ASSESSMENT AND IMPROVEMENT * Performance Improvement * Quality Assessment/Performance Improvement: An Administrator’ s Viewpoint * Quality Planning for Quality Patient Care * Program Evaluation * Clinical and Financial Evaluations of Patient Care * Critical Pathways * Outcome-Based Quality Improvement * Evaluating the Quality of Home Care Services Using Patient Outcome Data * Implementing theAgency for Health Care Policy and Research Urinary Incontinence Guideline in a Home Health Agency * Home Health Care Benchmarking * MANAGEMENT ISSUES IN HOME HEALTH ADMINISTRATION * Administrative Policy and Procedure Manual * Discharge Planning * Referral Sources in Home Health Care Administrative Priorities: Decisions and Strategies That Attract and Retain quality Staff * Flextime Scheduling * Evaluating Productivity * Labor-Management Relations * Human Resource Management * Staff Development in a Home Health Agency * Transitioning Hospital Nurses to Home Care * Case Management * Managed Care * Working with Managed Care Networks: Strategies for Success * Community-Based long-Term Care: Preparing for a New Role * FINANCIAL ISSUES * Understanding the Exposures of Home Health Care: An Insurance Primer * Budgeting for Home Health Services * Reimbursement * How to Read, Interpret, and Understand Financial Statements * Management Information Systems * An Overview of One Home Health Agency Management Information System * Legal/Ethical/Political Issues * Legal Issues of concern to Home Care Providers * Ethical Issues * Understanding the Political Process * STRATEGIC PLANNING/MARKETING/SURVIVAL ISSUES * Strategic Planning * Marketing: An Overview * Corporate Reorganization * An Experience in Diversification * The Process of Visiting Nurse Association Affiliation with a Major Teaching Hospital * Integrated Delivery Systems * OTHER TYPES of RELATIONSHIPS * Resource Development for Home Health Care Providers * Home Care Volunteer Program * The Peer Review Organization (PRO) * The Manager as Published Author: Tips on Writing for Publication Student Placements in Home Health Care Agencies: Boost or Barrier to Quality Patient Care? A Student Program in One Home Health Agency The Role of the Physician in Home Care * The Physician Connection * The Role of the Medicare Fiscal Intermediary and the Regional Home Health Intermediary * The Appeal Process: Reopening, Reconsiderations, Administrative Law Judge Hearings and Appeal Council * Nursing Research in Home Health Agencies * Hospice Care * THE FUTURE of HOME CARE * Electronic Home Visits to Improve Care and Decrease Costs * Using the Internet for Home Health and Hospice Care * Developing a Home Page for the World Wide Web * Planning, Implementing and Managing a Community-Based Nursing Center: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities * Adult Day Services--The Next Frontier * Basics for Beginning a Parish Nurse Program * Surviving the Present Challenges and Thriving in the Future: A Personal Viewpoint * Appendixes

Editorial Reviews

3 Stars from Doody

This is the second edition of a comprehensive resource for home care and hospice administrators that provides in-depth coverage of the administration process within an agency. This book is intended to provide an overview of the administration of home care and hospice services. Successfully achieving its purpose, this user friendly text is a welcome resource. The objectives of this book are met. This book is intended for administrators of home health and hospice organizations. An additional audience would be the students of a health care administration program in a university setting. This would be a valuable reference text for this audience. The editor and contributors bring a wealth of expertise to this book. Black-and-white illustrations provide useful tools. References are pertinent and current. The table of contents, index, references, and appendixes are well organized and user friendly. The book excels in "real life" worksheet samples, illustrating content. The editor contends this new edition offers a guide for the future of home care, as reflected in the last section of the book. Divided into ten parts and 80 chapters, the text allows the reader an opportunity to peruse the material by topic or in full. It is an appropriate text for home care and hospice administrators as well as a useful reference text in the university setting.

Bader Peters Reynolds

Overviews the administration of home health and hospice services. Part I reviews home health administration, and Part II addresses agency and professional standards for home health agencies. Part III explores clinical issues affecting service delivery and cost identification, with emphasis on determining competency of personnel. Part IV describes quality assessment and performance improvement, with new chapters on outcome-based quality improvement and benchmarking, and Part V touches on management issues. Parts VI and VII deal with financial, legal, and ethical issues, and Part VIII discusses strategic planning and marketing. Part IX addresses administrative staff as innovators, and Part X looks at the potential of telemedicine. This third edition reflects the many changes in the field over the three years since the first edition was published. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

Reviewer: Bader Peters Reynolds, RN, MS (CareGivers, Inc.)
Description: This is the second edition of a comprehensive resource for home care and hospice administrators that provides in-depth coverage of the administration process within an agency.
Purpose: This book is intended to provide an overview of the administration of home care and hospice services. Successfully achieving its purpose, this user friendly text is a welcome resource. The objectives of this book are met.
Audience: This book is intended for administrators of home health and hospice organizations. An additional audience would be the students of a health care administration program in a university setting. This would be a valuable reference text for this audience. The editor and contributors bring a wealth of expertise to this book.
Features: Black-and-white illustrations provide useful tools. References are pertinent and current. The table of contents, index, references, and appendixes are well organized and user friendly. The book excels in "real life" worksheet samples, illustrating content.
Assessment: The editor contends this new edition offers a guide for the future of home care, as reflected in the last section of the book. Divided into ten parts and 80 chapters, the text allows the reader an opportunity to peruse the material by topic or in full. It is an appropriate text for home care and hospice administrators as well as a useful reference text in the university setting.

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