Unit Updates

Home Care

April 2004

• Lisa Coots - Position of Administrator
• OASIS Education Coordinator back under HCRS
• Changes within the Section for Health Standards and Licensure
• Pending Agencies
• Home Health Aide Competency Exam
• Reminder regarding duties assigned to the home health aide
• What are aides allowed to do?
• Advance Beneficiary Notice
• Physician Rubber Stamp Signatures
• Clarification regarding Group of Professional Personnel at Tag G152
• Clarification regarding Hospice Volunteer Hours
• Impact of Section 946 of the MMA on the Hospice Core Services Requirement
• CMS clarifies question regarding medical social worker requirements in hospice
• Physician Orders for Foley Catheter required for home health and hospice
• Employee Disqualification List
• What's New in OASIS
• The Collection and Transmission of OASIS Data for Private Pay Patients

September 2004

• Staffing Changes in HCRS
• New Administrator-Bureau of Health Care Oversight
• Important Reminder-Agency Changes
• OASIS Q&A Has Relocated
• Time to Change Pressure Ulcer Coding
• Spiritual Counselor Defined
• Home Health Aide Competency Evaluation Has Been Revised
• Physician's Rubber Stamp Signature is Acceptable
• Services Offered at Expansion Area and Branch
• Providing Home Health Aide Services
• Can LPNs Take Verbal Orders?
• Medicare Rules for Daycare Settings
• Reporting Disputed Transfers of Home Health Beneficiaries
• Clarification of Timing Requirements for Conducting the Comprehensive Assessment
• Determination of Frequency of Baths for Hospice Patients that are Facility Residents
• Clarification of ML151
• Clarification of ML224
• Interdisciplinary Group Members May Participate by Telephone Conference
• Nurse Practitioners as Attending Physicians in the Medicare Hospice Benefit
• MSW can have patient election statement