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1. case management in home care

   barb b replied to barb b's topic in Home Health

   Thanks Hoolihan! That does help alot. We are having a meeting next week to try to see what we can do to make this work. Yes we do use pagers & cell phones but we are piloting one or two Alpha pagers to try & cut down on the need for call bac...

2. case management in home care

   barb b posted a topic in Home Health

   Hi everyone! I need your help! I work in a hospital based Homecare, average census of around 120-150 patients. We are trying to find a case management model that REALLY works. Right now we have 4 RN's who work as "Case Managers", For the most part th...

3. PPS - what are ya gonna do?

   barb b replied to Ellen's topic in Home Health

   I hate to say this, but if you're not ready for PPS now, you may be in trouble! We actually began to prepare for PPS last year, It takes effect Oct.1 whether you are ready or not! We have had some off-site workshops that we attended back in april and...

4. Policy on Normal Saline

   barb b replied to KT's topic in Home Health

   our policy currently is also to discard the saline 24 hours after opening. we try to use only the 250ml containers and on occasion have used unit dose3cc vials when provided by the pharmacy for small wet/dry dressings but those are expensive. I agree...