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No place like community: Discharge planning beyond the PHE

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Home assessments should move well beyond home type, kitchen set-up, hallway width, bedroom and ADL analysis and shift into our patients’ “real world” in whatever sense neighborhoods and community are important to them. Is the emergency contact information present and accessible? What about travel?

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How Hospices Are Diversifying Their Services in 2024

Hospice News

Participants are typically those certified by a state to require nursing level of care (which can be home-based), and need assistance with certain activities of daily life (ADLs). Most PACE participants are reimbursed through the long-term care programs within Medicare and Medicaid, according to Black.

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

Hospice News

This was presented back in Tampa at a post-acute long-term care conference earlier this year, where we looked at the ability of speech recognition to drive down Medicare denials of claims. PPS score, the prognostic statement, the disease progression, the ADLs, whatever it was, it was missing one or a multiple of those.

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Home Care Pulse

Laura Coyle ( 07:01 ): You know, they are going in at the start of care, looking at the home. Is this a, a safe home environment or this client to live in, you know, a thorough fall risk, but really a good look around the home and, you know, how can they do their ADLs? Are they safe? Do they need any equipment?