12 New Mental Status Questions on OASIS-E
Medicare's draft OASIS-E assessment, effective January 2023, expands its data collection on the patient's cognition to include 12 more questions. Medicare has incorporated the Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS) for the home health clinician to evaluate cognitive impairment and...
Does Your Home Health Orientation Include These 11 Policies?
Home Health orientation basics include showing new workers how to perform their jobs safely and efficiently. But thriving home health agencies know that it is important to go much further than that. Orientation is the perfect time to begin soft skills training, and to introduce...
OASIS E & PHQ2-9: Identifying a Depressive Disorder
The new OASIS-E Start of Care OASIS assessment has fifteen (15) sections, A - O.
Section D, or section 4 of 15, addresses the patient's mood and presence of depression.
Depression and anxiety are major health issues among...
OASIS E - M1610 Urinary Incontinence/Catheter Presence
The draft version of the new OASIS-E Start of Care OASIS assessment has fifteen (15) sections. Many of the 'old' questions remain - like M1610 Urinary Incontinence/Catheter Presence. This question is now located under Section H 'Bladder & Bowel'.
- A - Administrative Information
- B -...
Teach Patients to Manage Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) is a leading cause of death in the United States, affecting 16 million Americans and millions more who don’t know they have it. Home health nurses and therapists encounter patients with COPD every day. In addition to COPD drugs, the...
The One (1) Strategy Essential to Preventing ER Visits...
Home care providers can help hospitals reduce readmission rates during the critical 30 days following discharge from hospital. As a result, home care referrals are being given with positive patient outcomes in mind. Here are a few ideas for improving patient outcomes and reducing...
Home Health Careplan for End Stage Renal Failure (ESRD)
For the patient with end stage renal failure (ESRD), in addition to assessing Urinary Incontinence M1610 and Shortness of breath on M1400, also include these MyHomecareBiz Best Practice assessment strategies and and our nursing care plan for ESRD.
Short-Term Home Health Marketing Basics...
Your Business Development Plan should have short-term home health marketing and long term business growth goals. For the long term you want to make sure your Agency is working toward achieving top OASIS outcomes.
