My heart is in hospice. Although I switched to home health for better hours, I miss hospice terribly. As the above poster said, the patient is anyone you meet behind that door. That is so true....
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Don't get me wrong, I am not saying I have a problem with assessments and seeing patients. That is what I am there to do. I am not saying that setting up appointments is a "legal" issue. It just...
I keep hearing "that's just how it is in home health", but I am not convinced that everything is on the up and up with this HHA. I have dealt with hospice and medicare for years and know the hospice...
I'm working for a HHA where a good 50% of our patients were Mobile Doctors patients. For those who don't know, Mobile Doctors was shut down at the end of August for fraud. I saw a patient late last...
Once you are in the field awhile, you'll learn the tools of the trade. Comfort medications are usually the same across the board: Roxanol or MSIR, Lorazepam and/or Haldol, atropine. You'll have a...