PartI Home Health Administration
Chapter1 Status of Home Health Care 2015 and Beyond
Chapter2 Home Health Care: An Historical Perspective and Overview
PartII Standards for Home Health Agencies
Chapter3 Medicare Conditions of Participation
Chapter4 The Joint Commission's Home Care Accreditation Program
Chapter5 CHAP Accreditation: Standards of Excellence for Home and Community-Based Healthcare Organizations
Chapter6 ACHC: Accreditation for Home care and Alternate Site Healthcare Services
Chapter7 Certificate of Need and Licensure
Chapter8 Credentialing: Organizational and Personnel Options for Home Care
Chapter9 The Relationship of the Home Health Agency to the State Trade Association
Chapter10 The National Association for Home Care and Hospice
Chapter11 Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA): Nonprofit Providers Leading Transformation in Communities Across the Country
PartIII Clinical Issues
Chapter12 Self- Care Systems in Home Healthcare Nursing
Chapter13 Computerized Clinical Documentation
Chapter14 Home Telehealth: Improving Care and Decreasing Costs
Chapter15 Implementing a Competency System in Home Care
Chapter16 The Roles of and Competency Requirements for Para-professionals
Chapter17 Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services
Chapter18 Clinical Care Classification (CCC) System: An Overview
Chapter19 The Omaha System: Improving the Quality of Practice and Decision Support
Chapter20 Disaster Preparedness
Chapter21 The Evolving Role of Case Management
Chapter22 Specialized Infusion and Ancillary Home Care Services
Chapter23 Pediatric Home Care
Chapter24 Maternal and Child Health
PartIV Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement
Chapter25 Performance Improvement
Chapter26 Program Evaluation
Chapter27 Effectiveness of a Clinical Feedback Approach to Improving Patient Outcomes
Chapter28 Expanding Your Performance Improvement Program: Using Process and Other Measures to Improve Care
Chapter29 Implementing Outcome-Based Quality Improvement in the Home Health Agency
Chapter30 Implementing Home Health Standards in Clinical Practice
Chapter31 Benchmarking and Home Health Care
PartV Management Issues
Chapter32 Management Information Systems and Information Technology
Chapter34 Strategies to Attract and Retain Quality Staff: Flextime and Clinical Ladders
Chapter35 Analysis and Management of Home Health Nursing Caseloads and Workloads: Implications for Productivity
Chapter36 Human Resource Management
Chapter37 Transitioning Nurses to Home Care
Chapter38 Staff Development in a Home Health Agency
Chapter39 Community Based Long-Term Care
Chapter40 Beyond Medicare Certified Home Health Services: An Overview of Other Types of Home Care Services
PartVI Financial Issues
Chapter41 Understanding the Exposures of Home Health Care: An Insurance Primer
Chapter42 Budgeting for Home Health Agencies
Chapter43 Reimbursement
Chapter44 ADRs, CERTs, RACs, SMRCs, ZIPCs, and Other External Audits
Chapter45 How to Read, Interpret, and Understand Financial Statements
PartVII Legal/Ethical/Political Issues
Chapter46 Legal Issues of Concern to Home Care Providers
Chapter47 Understanding the Basics of Home Health Compliance
Chapter48 The HIPAA Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information
Chapter49 Bioethics: A Practical Guide for Home Care
Chapter50 Health Care Is Politics: Get Involved
PartVIII Strategic Planning and Marketing Issues
Chapter51 Strategic Planning
Chapter52 Marketing Strategies
PartIX Other Types of Relationships
Chapter53 Grantsmanship in Home Health Care: Seeking Foundation Support
Chapter54 Home Care Volunteer Programs
Chapter55 The Manager as Published Author: Tips on Writing for Publication
Chapter56 Student Placements in Home Healthcare Agencies: Boost or Barrier to Quality Patient Care?
Chapter57 The Role of the Physician in Home Care
Chapter58 Research in Home Health Agencies
Chapter59 Integrating Palliative Care into Home Care Practice
Chapter60 Hospice Care: Pioneering the Ultimate Love Connection About Living, Not Dying
Chapter61 Safe Harbor: A Bereavement Program for Children, Teens, and Families
Chapter62 Adult Day Services: Home Care Partners
Chapter63 Collaborative Efforts in the Community: Faith Community Nurses as Partners in Healing
PartX Strategies for Success
Chapter64 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