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Westat Survey to Help Home Health Agencies Improve Quality of Care As a valued stakeholder for home health care services in Ohio, your home health agency may have an opportunity to assess and validate the contribution and support received from Ohio KePRO, Medicare’s Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) for Ohio, toward your quality improvement goals. Read more>> |
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Agencies Participating in Ohio KePRO Projects Show Marked Improvement in Focus Quality Measures Ohio KePRO tracked data for each of the four focus quality measures for all home health agencies in Ohio beginning in August 2005, and compared the data to a baseline date of July 2004. In many cases, the difference in performance between agencies in the IPG and other agencies (referred to as “non-IPGs”) is undeniable. Read more>> |
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Who Are Health Information Professionals? Does your home health agency (HHA) want to adopt an electronic health record (EHR) system, but is unsure how to do so? What is the personal health record? Are your patients and families asking about the personal health record? Are you concerned about privacy and security issues? Are you struggling with the regulations? Read more>> |
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Ohio Receives Safe-Rx™ Award Ohio KePRO’s efforts to improve patient safety and physician practice efficiency through the use of electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) technology were cited as a critical factor for Ohio receiving the Safe-Rx™ Award in February 2007. Read more>> |
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Memorandum of Agreement Needed for Medicare Participation Section 1866 (a)(1)(F)(ii) of the Social Security Act requires hospitals, critical access hospitals (CAHs), skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), hospices, LTACs, CORFs and home health agencies (HHAs) to maintain an agreement with a QIO to perform certain functions. Read more>> |
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National Framework and Preferred Practices Developed for Palliative and Hospice Care Quality In a December 2006 consensus report, titled “A National Framework and Preferred Practices for Palliative and Hospice Care Quality,” the National Quality Forum (NQF) proposed 38 preferred practices in an effort to build a quality measurement and reporting system for palliative and hospice care quality. Read more>> |
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Checklist: How to Improve Pain Interfering With Activity Pain is the most common reason individuals seek medical attention and often leads to hospitalization. Recent summary findings have shown that 80 percent of patients with pain sought physician advice within the last 12 months; 14 percent of patients went to hospital emergency departments; 11 percent had been hospitalized. Fifty million Americans are partially or totally disabled by pain, according to the American Pain Society. Read more>> |
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Vaccination Care At Home Vaccinations are a defense against contracting pneumonia and influenza. They can also help keep your patients out of the hospital. Please take five minutes to participate in an important study to help the Ohio KePRO Home Health Team examine the immunization practices of Ohio home health agencies. Your responses are confidential. Read more>> |
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Set Targets, Achieve Results on www.hhqi-star.org Home health agencies (HHAs) can use the Setting Targets, Achieving Results (STAR) Web site to view publicly reported quality measure scores or most current information on OASIS, select appropriate targets, and track their progress over time. Read more>> |
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Reduce Avoidable Acute Care Hospitalizations by Participating in the National Home Health Quality Improvement Campaign The goal of the campaign is to reduce avoidable acute care hospitalizations (ACH) by five percent nationally using a 12-month interdisciplinary approach that includes key home health, hospital, physician, and managed care stakeholders. Read more>> |
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| Order Free Materials Ohio KePRO offers a variety of free CD-ROMs, brochures, booklets, and clinical pocket guides to help your home health agency provide quality care to patients. View Shopping Bag>> |
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