Home Care Pulse

MARCH 15, 2023

End-of-life care brings unique challenges to care providers, those receiving care, and their families—so it’s important to have the knowledge and skills care for those experiencing a terminal illness. These courses will change the way providers are able to meet the needs of their customers.”

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Home Sweet Home In-Home Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

We frequently hear from primary family caregivers that there is not anyone in their circle of close friends and family who knows the older adult or the requirements of dementia care well enough to assist. In cases like these, our trained and experienced dementia care professionals are invaluable.

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Daily Nurse

MAY 11, 2023

Nurses touch lives in schools, summer camps, occupational health, research, home health, hospice, public health, dialysis, urgent care, ambulatory surgery, case management, etc. The family caregivers of a patient dying of pancreatic cancer would not be able to have their loved one in the home without the attention of a hospice nurse.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 14, 2024

Today, I would like for us all to consider not merely the importance of documenting daily skilled care but also the reason for referral and the need for initiating services in the first place. If you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen. How many times have we all heard those words?

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American In-Home Care

JUNE 30, 2023

A referred care provider from American, Advocate or Whitsyms In-Home Care can help older adults with a wide variety of challenges, including vision changes and dementia. Specialized care for someone with Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

female with metastatic pancreatic cancer was admitted to hospice three weeks ago.

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Comfort Home Care

MARCH 29, 2022

Personal care : Help with activities of daily living (ADLs) such as bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, housekeeping, laundry, meal prep, and help with eating. Skilled care: As the disease progresses, many times patients need skilled nursing care to perform wound care, physical therapy, injections, and/or the administration of drugs.

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Comfort Home Care

APRIL 7, 2023

Consider joining a support group or seek professional help to manage the stress and emotional strain that come with caring for someone. In-home care can provide the respite care you need to recharge your batteries while providing excellent skilled care for your loved one.

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Executive Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We have special Alzheimer’s and dementia care programs that cater to seniors with these diagnoses. Home Care Assistance Can Even Involve Nurses. With our skilled care program , we can even arrange for registered nurses to visit clients in their own homes and provide a range of services. Executive Care.

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Hospice of the North Coast

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The only short term in-patient facility in North County San Diego, Pacifica House is a home for hospice patients who require a higher level of skilled care to manage pain and symptoms. I will be forever grateful. Patricia N. DONATE TODAY.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 16, 2023

Answer: Since maintenance services are considered skilled care, the patient must meet the setting-specific qualifying criteria outlined in the law, regulations, and Medicare Benefit Policy Manual. Question: What qualifies a patient for therapist-provided maintenance services under the Medicare benefit?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MAY 12, 2022

These are some positive steps to ensuring care and reimbursement align with patient needs, evidence-based practice and the unique level of skilled care you provide daily. In closing, changes are coming.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Khai Nguyen: As a National Medical Director at CHAP, I draw from the clinical experiences I’ve been so fortunate to have as a geriatrician, mostly in the community care setting.

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 11, 2022

I am currently a registered nurse at Boston Medical Center in the Medical Intensive Care Unit.

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Now, health systems that separated care prescription from care delivery (often with the assessments and resource allocation coming from case managers in the public system while care delivery is handled by private agencies) are recognizing that those delivering care should be empowered to develop plans that integrate skilled and non-skilled care.

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Home Care Pulse

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Sure, we have feelings, and yes, we do have clients and patients that find a special place in our hearts, but the reality is we exist to provide a service that significantly impacts the well-being of those in our skilled care. Do we respond rigidly and avoid developing deeper connections with those in our care? Of course, not!

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

OCTOBER 18, 2021

From dialysis and med-surg to home health and the ICU, nurses create therapeutic relationships with patients and their families, providing spiritual and emotional comfort, compassion, and expert skilled care based on many decades of nursing science and evidence-based interventions.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

They’re saying that you can’t have inpatient care because the patient is dying or doesn’t need the care of a physician or the care of a nurse. It is skilled care even when you have no skills, and you have no license, but you’re doing this 24 hours.

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The Productive Home Health Nurse

JULY 25, 2020

. #4 YOU WEREN’T AWARE OF THE “SKILLED NEED” REQUIREMENTS FOR YOUR OASIS ASSESSMENT NARRATIVE NOTE. Doesn’t the mere fact that you’re even involved with this patient as a “nurse” justify their “skilled need” ? Wait a minute??!! Nope, that’s not the case at all (side-eye to Medicare)!

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The Nurse Break

MARCH 20, 2023

With observation, compassionate and skilled care after a couple of interactions she calmed and we witnessed no ‘aggression’. Yes she was kicking and screaming (wouldn’t you?). The students and I selected to be her main nurses and do her dressing, which seemed to be the main time she was ‘aggressive’.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Furthermore, services that do not require the performance or supervision of a therapist are not skilled and are not considered reasonable or necessary therapy services, even if they are performed or supervised by a qualified professional. How does this impact skill? What about diagnosis or condition?

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 31, 2022

Amazon has the technology, logistical network, human capital, and negotiating power to significantly alter care delivery and operations in a way that will render most care providers uncompetitive, should they continue operating as they do today. . #1: Let’s look at existing technology it might leverage in home care: .

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 3, 2022

We also know that our skilled care, its impacts and the patients’ ability to maintain functional abilities extends well beyond the time during which direct care provision is provided. They feel supported. The rehab is never just about therapy alone.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 2, 2023

There’s so many, I I, I could spend all day going into different flow charts of, of how to problem solve somebody going into higher skilled care. Or did you, did you cause something? Sometimes it’s necessary, but sometimes it’s not. But I’m not gonna waste our time with that.

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