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Understanding the PEPPER Can Reduce Home Health and Skilled Nursing Audit Risks

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Long‐term acute care hospitals. Short-term acute care hospitals. ” Richardson suggests engaging a broader interdisciplinary team, including Minimum Data Set (MDS) coordinators, to offer differing viewpoints when analyzing the report. Home health agencies. Inpatient psychiatric facilities.

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Why Care Coordination Is Important for Home Health and Hospice Agencies

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Comprehensive education for home health staff is vital to boost performance under HHVBP, observed Relias Director of Post-Acute Care Solutions Trish Richardson, MSN, BSBA, RN, NE-BC, CMSRN. Hospices should also be concerned about care coordination. In broad terms, it’s care management through teamwork. Everyone had input.

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Rehabilitation Therapy and Wound Management: Strategic Partnership in Home Health

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Exceptional wound care management in the home setting is attainable. Realizing this goal begins with home health agencies seizing the incredible opportunity to cultivate a culture of collaboration and establish a strong interdisciplinary team, singularly focused on successful wound management practices.