article thumbnail

10 Questions to ask when looking for a home care software platform

AlayaCare

Integrating a software solution such as AlayaCare will allow secure clinical documentation in a multi-tiered and secure messaging , HIPPA-compliant cloud environment. How easily does your system make it for you to see if caregivers are completing activities of daily living (ADLs) on-site?

Home care 225
article thumbnail

Hospice Documentation What You Need to Know

Hospice Nurse Hero

Hospice documentation is tedious and time-consuming. I’ve outlined simple tips to help you master the fundamentals of hospice documentation. Do you spend hours documenting at home? Worse yet, do you find yourself frustrated when “corporate” only seems to care about timely documentation? Documentation is king!!

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

How To Paint the Picture:10 Better Words to Chart

Hospice Nurse Hero

This article will outline tips and strategies to support better hospice documentation when painting the picture of decline. “Painting the picture” is a phrase often used to describe the process of documenting a hospice patient’s condition. Requires assistance with ADLs. I’ll be honest.

article thumbnail

The Secret is Out: Hospice Recertification Made Easy!

Hospice Nurse Hero

When this happens, you’ll want to use these tips to document the hospice recertification with ease. While the nurse practitioner can perform the face-to-face visit, it is up to the hospice medical director to review the documentation and certify the patient still meets hospice criteria. Use Comparison Documentation.

ADLS 52
article thumbnail

HSPN ELEVATE: The Common Thread Linking Documentation, Satisfaction, and Revenue Protection

Hospice News

Hospice News: Today we will talk about threads of clinical documentation and satisfaction and also revenue protection. Here’s an area that you missed from a documentation perspective where you could get dinged by CMS for not documenting it, either this element or this way.” One example is a CTI. They love doing it.

Document 219
article thumbnail

Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

And a lot of them never actually improve their ADLs once they’re sent to SNF. Lynn: If they need to go somewhere and receive ADL support and supportive care at the same time, there’s no mechanism to pay for that. Many of them aren’t enrolled in hospice before they die. Sarguni: Yeah. We provide critical education.

Palliate 282
article thumbnail

How To Boost Your Home Health Nursing Orientation For Free

The Productive Home Health Nurse

Home health aides – also known as HHA , (who I’ve named as the home health angels) who works very very closely with the patient to complete their ADLs, demonstrate tasks, and so much more. Instead, you’re completing documentation on the circumstances and patient’s health standing at the time of death.