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The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic is a pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The disease was first identified in Wuhan, Hubei, China in December 2019. Join Our Guest: Maureen Spencer, RN, M.Ed, CIC, will be joining us to continue discussing the coronavirus (COVID-19) through Prevention, Symptoms, and the global healthcare focus.
May 19th, 2020: Coronavirus COVID-19; A Time To Review the Basics Through Prevention, Symptoms, Treatment
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic is a pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The disease was first identified in Wuhan, Hubei, China in December 2019.
Join Our Guest: Maureen Spencer, RN, M.Ed, CIC, on Tuesday, May 19th at 10:00 a.m. PST as we discuss the Coronavirus
(COVID-19) Pandemic; An introduction to the virus and the guidelines managing
Prevention, Symptoms, and the global healthcare focus.
Our guests Edmond A. Hooker, MD, DrPH and Nancy Foster, Vice President, Quality and Patient Safety Policy, American Hospital Association will be discussing the CentersforMedicareandMedicaid Services (CMS), an agency of theU.S.Department of HealthandHumanServices, CMS 2019 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule – which includes proposals to de-duplicate measures across the five hospital quality reporting programs.
This special live broadcast discussion will be about the CMS’ recent proposals for Healthcare-associated infection (HAI) measures and to provide facts that will bring forth a better understanding of the proposed rule.
Guest Information:
Eddie Hooker, MD, DrPH, is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Services Administration at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is also an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Louisville and at Wright State University. His areas of expertise include emergency medicine, epidemiology, health-services management, and public health.
Dr. Hooker received his BS degree from Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. He earned his MD degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School. He then completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Louisville. As a full-time faculty member at the University of Louisville from 1991 until 1996, Dr. Hooker served as an Associate Professor and Director of Resident Research. He was very active in brain trauma and stroke research. Dr. Hooker most recently practiced emergency medicine at a private hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was active cardiac research. Since 2005, Dr. Hooker has been teaching in the Department of Health Services Administration at Xavier University. In the spring of 2007, Dr. Hooker earned his Doctorate in Public Health from the University of Kentucky.
Dr. Hooker continues to be active in emergency medicine and public-health research. He has authored more than 20 publications in leading emergency-medicine journals, published many book chapters, and continues to have an active research agenda. Dr. Hooker serves as an editor for Emedicine, an online clinical knowledge base. He is the medical advisor for Indian Hill Schools.
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Nancy Foster is the Vice President for Quality and Patient Safety Policy at the American Hospital Association. In this role, she provides advice to public policymakers on legislation and regulations intended to improve patient safety and quality in America’s hospitals. Foster is the AHA’s point person at the National Quality Forum, the Hospital Workgroup of the Measures Application Partnership, and is the liaison to the Joint Commission’s Board, and represents hospital perspectives at many national meetings.
Prior to joining the AHA, Foster was the Coordinator for Quality Activities at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). In this role, she was the principal staff person for the Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force, which brought Federal agencies with health care responsibilities together to coordinate their work and engage in projects to improve quality and safety. She also led the development of patient safety research agenda for AHRQ and managed a portfolio of quality and safety research grants in excess of $10 million.
She is a graduate of Princeton University and has completed graduate work at Chapman University and Johns Hopkins University. In 2000, she was chosen as an Excellence in Government Leadership Fellow.
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At its basic level, “home health care” means exactly what it sounds like – medical care provided in a patient’s home. Home health care can include a range of care given by skilled medical professionals, including skilled nursing care, physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy. Home health care can also include skilled, non-medical care, such as medical social services or assistance with daily personal activities provided by a highly qualified home health aide.
As the Medicare program describes, home health care is unique as a care setting not only because the care is provided in the home, but the care itself is “usually less expensive, more convenient, and just as effective” as care given in a hospital or skilled nursing facility.
When we say “home care” a common thought is senior care. However; in today’s society wellness draining diagnosis occur in every age group. Some of the more chronic, long-term illnesses greatly benefit from receiving home health care vs extended stays in acute care facilities and other health care in-patient services depending upon individual living situations and over-all health conditions.
Who qualifies for Home Health Care?
Each individual must contact their insurance provider to inquire about this skilled care provided within their home. There may be co-pays per visit, limitations of the number of visits per episode and per calendar year, there may additional stipulations and should be understood by the patient and their families prior to discussing with a Medicare enrolled Physician.
To be eligible for Medicare home health services a patient must have Medicare Part A
and/or Part B.
To be eligible for Home Health Care Services: (1)
Be confined to home.
Need Skilled Services.
Be Under the Care Of a Medicare -enrolled Physician.
Receive Services Under a Plan Of Care Established and Reviewed by a Physician and Have Had a Face-to-Face Encounter With a Physician or Allowed Non-Physician Practioner (NPP). Care Must Be Furnished By or Under Arrangements Made by A Medicare-Participating Home Home Health Agency (HHA).
Patient Eligibility—Confined to Home
Section 1814(a) and Section 1835(a)
of the Act specify that an
individual is considered
confined to the home” (homebound) if the following two criteria are met: First Criteria: One of the Following must be met:
1. Because of illness or injury, the individual needs the aid of supportive devices such as crutches, canes, wheelchairs, and walkers; the use of special transportation; or the
assistance of another person to leave their place of residence
2. Have a condition such that leaving his or her home is medically contraindicated.
Second Criteria Both of the following must be met:
1. There must exist a normal inability to leave home.
2. Leaving home must require a considerable and taxing effort.
Home Health Aids May Be Included In the Home Health Care Assessment and Assigned To Assist With Personal Care – Activities of Daily Living (ADL’s), Bathing, Feeding, Dressing, and Walking.
To learn more about Home Health Care Nursing and being treated in the home environment, listen to Linda Jablonski, MS, BSN, RN-BC – Director of Nursing Home Health. Click on the C.diff. radio logo below to listen to the podcast.
Home Health Aids May Be Included In the Home Health Care Assessment and Assigned To Assist With Personal Care – Activities of Daily Living (ADL’s), Bathing, Feeding, Dressing, and Walking.