Home Health Keys For Success

To download the workshop materials, click on the links below:

Objectives

• Understand how leadership elements help sustain improvement in quality measures.

• Identify and monitor four key process measures using the Acute Care Hospitalization (ACH) Tracking Tool.

• Discuss strategies for implementing disease management concepts in home care.

• Identify one possible solution to barriers to a timely response from patients' physicians.

• Calculate savings that result from reducing ACH.

Agenda (PDF, 231K)
Pre-Test / Post-Test (PDF, 125K)
 

ACH Best Practice Tool and User's Guide, click here
Disease Management Part 1,  click here
 

1.   Leadership: The Key to Quality

• Presentation: Leadership: The Key to Quality (PDF, 47K)
  Caralyn E. Williams, MOAM, Quality Improvement Specialist, HSAG

2.   Collecting Process Measures for Success

• Presentation: Collecting Process Measures for Success (PDF, 167K)
  Marianne Canady, RN, MA, Director, Home Health Quality, HSAG

3.   Disease Management and Home Care

• Presentation: Disease Management and Home Care (PDF, 233K)
  Marianne Canady, RN, MA, Director, Home Health Quality, HSAG

4.   Acute Care Hospitalizations - The Bottom Line

• Presentation: Reducing Acute Care Hospitalization (ACH): What's In It for You? (PDF, 72K)
  Mary Fermazin, MD, MPA, Vice President, Health Policy & Quality Measurement, HSAG

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