Handbook of Home Health Care Administration / Edition 6

by Marilyn D. Harris

Overview

Handbook of Home Health Care Administration, Sixth Edition is a comprehensive text that reflects the current state of home health care administration. With contributions from leading experts in the field, it addresses key aspects of home health care, including finance, human resource development, legal and ethical issues, management information systems, marketing, quality management, research, and current technology for patient care. The Sixth Edition includes seven new chapters: * Status of Home Health Care: 2015 and Beyond * The Roles of and Competency Requirements for Paraprofessionals * Disaster Preparedness * Pediatric Home Care * Beyond Medicare-Certified Home Health Services: An Overview of Other Types of Home Care Services * Expanding Your Performance Improvement Program: Using Process and Other Measures to Improve Care * ADRs, CERTs, RACs, SMRCs, ZPICs, and Other External Audits

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781284068023
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	10/06/2015
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	890
Sales rank:	722,228
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 2.00(d)

About the Author

Marilyn D. Harris, RN, MSN, CNAA-BC, FAAN, served as the Executive Director of Abington Memorial Hospital Home Care in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania for 22 years. The recipient of many state and national association awards, Ms. Harris has more than four decades of experience in home care She is author, or coauthor, of more that 150 article including chapters, manuals, and four previous editions of the Handbook of Home Health Care Administration. She has presented over 50 papers on home care issues at conferences including an invitational conference in The Netherlands.

Table of Contents

Part I Home Health Administration
Chapter 1 Status of Home Health Care 2015 and Beyond
Chapter 2 Home Health Care: An Historical Perspective and Overview
Part II Standards for Home Health Agencies
Chapter 3 Medicare Conditions of Part icipation
Chapter 4 The Joint Commission’s Home Care Accreditation Program
Chapter 5 CHAP Accreditation: Standards of Excellence for Home and Community-Based Healthcare Organizations
Chapter 6 ACHC: Accreditation for Home care and Alternate Site Healthcare Services
Chapter 7 Certificate of Need and Licensure
Chapter 8 Credentialing: Organizational and Personnel Options for Home Care
Chapter 9 The Relationship of the Home Health Agency to the State Trade Association
Chapter 10 The National Association for Home Care and Hospice
Chapter 11 Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA): Nonprofit Providers Leading Transformation in Communities Across the Country
Part III Clinical Issue s
Chapter 12 Self- Care Systems in Home Healthcare Nursing
Chapter 13 Computerized Clinical Documentation
Chapter 14 Home Telehealth: Improving Care and Decreasing Costs
Chapter 15 Implementing a Competency System in Home Care
Chapter 16 The Roles of and Competency Requirements for Para-professionals
Chapter 17 Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services
Chapter 18 Clinical Care Classification (CCC) System: An Overview
Chapter 19 The Omaha System: Improving the Quality of Practice and Decision Support
Chapter 20 Disaster Preparedness
Chapter 21 The Evolving Role of Case Management
Chapter 22 Specialized Infusion and Ancillary Home Care Services
Chapter 23 Pediatric Home Care
Chapter 24 Maternal and Child Health
Part IV Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement
Chapter 25 Performance Improvement
Chapter 26 Program Evaluation
Chapter 27 Effectiveness of a Clinical Feedback Approach to Improving Patient Outcomes
Chapter 28 Expanding Your Performance Improvement Program: Using Process and Other Measures to Improve Care
Chapter 29 Implementing Outcome-Based Quality Improvement in the Home Health Agency
Chapter 30 Implementing Home Health Standards in Clinical Practice
Chapter 31 Benchmarking and Home Health Care
Part V Management Issue s
Chapter 32 Management Information Systems and Information Technology
Chapter 34 Strategies to Attract and Retain Quality Staff: Flextime and Clinical Ladders
Chapter 35 Analysis and Management of Home Health Nursing Case loads and Workloads: Implications for Productivity
Chapter 36 Human Resource Management
Chapter 37 Transitioning Nurses to Home Care
Chapter 38 Staff Development in a Home Health Agency
Chapter 39 Community Based Long-Term Care
Chapter 40 Beyond Medicare Certified Home Health Services: An Overview of Other Types of Home Care Services
Part VI Financial Issue s
Chapter 41 Understanding the Exposures of Home Health Care: An Insurance Primer
Chapter 42 Budgeting for Home Health Agencies
Chapter 43 Reimbursement
Chapter 44 ADRs, CERTs, RACs, SMRCs, ZIPCs, and Other External Audits
Chapter 45 How to Read, Interpret, and Understand Financial Statements
Part VII Legal/Ethical/Political Issue s
Chapter 46 Legal Issue s of Concern to Home Care Providers
Chapter 47 Understanding the Basics of Home Health Compliance
Chapter 48 The HIPAA Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information
Chapter 49 Bioethics: A Practical Guide for Home Care
Chapter 50 Health Care Is Politics: Get Involved
Part VIII Strategic Planning and Marketing Issue s
Chapter 51 Strategic Planning
Chapter 52 Marketing Strategies
Part IX Other Types of Relationships
Chapter 53 Grantsmanship in Home Health Care: Seeking Foundation Support
Chapter 54 Home Care Volunteer Programs
Chapter 55 The Manager as Published Author: Tips on Writing for Publication
Chapter 56 Student Placements in Home Healthcare Agencies: Boost or Barrier to Quality Patient Care?
Chapter 57 The Role of the Physician in Home Care
Chapter 58 Research in Home Health Agencies
Chapter 59 Integrating Palliative Care into Home Care Practice
Chapter 60 Hospice Care: Pioneering the Ultimate Love Connection About Living, Not Dying
Chapter 61 Safe Harbor: A Bereavement Program for Children, Teens, and Families
Chapter 62 Adult Day Services: Home Care Part ners
Chapter 63 Collaborative Efforts in the Community: Faith Community Nurses as Part ners in Healing
Part X Strategies for Success
Chapter 64 Meeting the Present Challenges and Continuing to Thrive in the Future: Tips on How to Be Successful as an Administrator in Home Health and Hospice Care

Editorial Reviews

3 Stars from Doody

This is the second edition of a comprehensive resource for home care and hospice administrators that provides in-depth coverage of the administration process within an agency. This book is intended to provide an overview of the administration of home care and hospice services. Successfully achieving its purpose, this user friendly text is a welcome resource. The objectives of this book are met. This book is intended for administrators of home health and hospice organizations. An additional audience would be the students of a health care administration program in a university setting. This would be a valuable reference text for this audience. The editor and contributors bring a wealth of expertise to this book. Black-and-white illustrations provide useful tools. References are pertinent and current. The table of contents, index, references, and appendixes are well organized and user friendly. The book excels in "real life" worksheet samples, illustrating content. The editor contends this new edition offers a guide for the future of home care, as reflected in the last section of the book. Divided into ten parts and 80 chapters, the text allows the reader an opportunity to peruse the material by topic or in full. It is an appropriate text for home care and hospice administrators as well as a useful reference text in the university setting.

Bader Peters Reynolds

Reviewer: Bader Peters Reynolds, RN, MS (CareGivers, Inc.)
Description: This is the second edition of a comprehensive resource for home care and hospice administrators that provides in-depth coverage of the administration process within an agency.
Purpose: This book is intended to provide an overview of the administration of home care and hospice services. Successfully achieving its purpose, this user friendly text is a welcome resource. The objectives of this book are met.
Audience: This book is intended for administrators of home health and hospice organizations. An additional audience would be the students of a health care administration program in a university setting. This would be a valuable reference text for this audience. The editor and contributors bring a wealth of expertise to this book.
Features: Black-and-white illustrations provide useful tools. References are pertinent and current. The table of contents, index, references, and appendixes are well organized and user friendly. The book excels in "real life" worksheet samples, illustrating content.
Assessment: The editor contends this new edition offers a guide for the future of home care, as reflected in the last section of the book. Divided into ten parts and 80 chapters, the text allows the reader an opportunity to peruse the material by topic or in full. It is an appropriate text for home care and hospice administrators as well as a useful reference text in the university setting.

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