Save valuable time trying to find information covered in the Four State Minutes and Medicare Advisories. This Index will allow you to locate needed information quickly and easily. The editors have compiled the Medicare Index to assist those using Four State Minutes from 1992 through December 1998 and selected Medicare Advisories from 1992 through 1998. An annual update to the Index is planned.
PUBLICATION NO. K8 Medicare Index
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IV Home Care Competency Questions and Skills Checklist for Nurses
Developed by the KHHA IV Committee, this document is a tool to assist the agency in assuring that staff is knowledgeable and clinically competent in high-risk, high tech areas. This competency test includes 74 multiple choice and short answer questions, some designed for specific agency policy. In addition, a one-page skills checklist covers aspects of IV nursing practice. Specific areas covered in the test include: total parenteral nutrition, pain management, antibiotics, fluids and electrolytes, line maintenance, mathematical calculations, as well as peripheral, central line, and administration techniques.
Publication NO. K6 Competency Questions/Skills Checklist
Published: 1996
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The National Association for Home Care has published its 3rd edition of their Provider's Guide to the Medicare Home Health Certification Process. This valuable reference contains: Conditions of Participation; the Certification Process including agency participation; Federal Monitor and Complaint Surveys and the Termination Process, 5/97 Revised Interpretive Guidelines for Surveyors; Surveyor Report Forms and Instructions; Providers Right to Comment and HCFA Clarifications on Specific Topics. KHHA is able to provide the manual to our membership at a discount since we can purchase in bulk.
PUBLICATION NO. N1A Provider's Guide in Notebook
Published: 1993 / Revised 1997
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PUBLICATION NO. N1B Revised Interpretive Guidelines
Published: 1997
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Created by the Pediatric Services Committee of KHHA, this guide is designed to facilitate access of younger clients into the child and adolescent service delivery system. The guide discusses admission criteria for Model II Waiver; Hospice; Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment Program; Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs; local school districts; First Steps; and home health. Services available through the Cabinet for Health Services, particularly those from the division of Material and Child Health are also included.
Publication NO. K7 A Guide to Pediatric Services
Published: 1996
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This document was produced and distributed by the Kentucky Apnea Monitor Task Force convened by KHHA's Pediatric Services Committee. This consensus statement is endorsed by the Kentucky Medical Association, Kentucky Pediatric Society and the Kentucky Perinatal Association. The publication offers guidance on the home management of infants who require apnea monitoring for all health care professionals. The printing and distribution of this consensus statement was made possible through the financial and in-kind support of the March of Dimes; Health Kentucky; the Kentucky Division of Maternal and Child Health, Cabinet for Health Services and the Kentucky Home Health Association.
Publication No. K14 Apnea Consensus Statement
Published: 1998
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Prepared by the KHHA Pediatric Services Committee to equip the non-pediatric home care professional to the assessment and examination of the pediatric patient. This publication includes pediatric medical equipment guidelines, assessment skills and checklist.
Publication NO. K13 Pediatric Assessment Guidelines
Published: 1999
The proposed rules to establish requirements for the new prospective payment system for home health agencies.
Publication No. B2C
Published: October 28, 1999
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Published since 1983, this reference consists of detailed information on licensed home health agencies and hospices serving Kentucky. Facts included in the agency listing are physical location, mailing address, phone numbers, counties served by each agency, availability of Medicare/Medicaid certified services, availability of private duty care and special programs, contact persons who can arrange services, and accepted payors. Also included in this edition is a section, with its own index, of KHHA Organizational Members by service/business categories including consultants, laboratories, medical supplies/services, etc. An invaluable source for anyone requiring home health services, the Directory is an excellent referral and networking source for those in the home care industry or those desiring to transact business with the representative of licensed home care services, suppliers and related services in Kentucky.
PUBLICATION NO. K1 Directory
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This report contains results of the 1994 survey of home health agencies and hospices in Kentucky. The survey was a joint effort by the Kentucky Home Health Association and the University of Kentucky College of Nursing. The purpose was to provide an overview of salaries and benefits of home care employees; to indicate the status of educational levels of home care employees; and to identify key employment issues in home care in Kentucky. The Appendices include additional detail giving minimum, maximum and averages. They also include personnel profiles for nursing and other staff positions.
PUBLICATION NO. K4 Compensation Survey
Published: 1995
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Prepared by the KHHA QA Committee, this document is designed to assist home health professionals identify resources which will help in developing and refining quality assurance and quality improvement programs within their agencies. The basic Resource Guide contains an overview of steps in developing a QA Program, results of a survey of home care quality assurance reference materials and annotated bibliographies.
The supplements contain outcome expectations, a teaching guide using these discharge outcome guidelines which may be adapted for use by agencies, sample monitors, references and resources for additional materials. Additional supplements are being developed.
PUBLICATION NO. K3 Resource Guide
Published: 1994 (currently under revision)
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The protocol was prepared by a subcommittee of the Medicaid Home Health Technical Advisory Committee as a guide to the management of a patient receiving infusion therapy at home. It sets forth criteria and guidelines for the safe institution, maintenance and termination of infusion therapy in the home setting. Specific information is given on the roles of the physician, home health agency and pharmacy in the administration of fluids, medication, blood components and nutritional products.
PUBLICATION NO. K5 Protocol - Home Infusion Therapy
Published: 1994 (currently under revision)
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Patient outcomes are central to quality assurance and quality improvements issues. This manual provides a roadmap for instituting outcome-based quality improvement (OBQI) in your agency. Based upon research conducted by the Colorado Center for Health Policy and Services Research in Denver with funding by HCFA and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, authors Peter Shaughnessey, PhD and Kathryn Crisler, MS, RN, provide a practical guide to the OBQI process. This manual includes: the why and how of OBQI; definition of outcomes; the means to measure outcomes; how to interpret outcome reports, methods for risk adjustment, the full outcome data set (OASIS); the means to implement and maintain OBQI; and much more in an understandable and usable format.
Publication No. K8 Outcome-Based Quality Improvement: A Manual for Home Care Agencies on How to Use Outcomes
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This guide provides one source for home care professionals who are developing or revising their customer satisfaction assessment process. The guide discusses the use of satisfaction surveys; how to develop; who, where, what is assessed and tips on designing a survey to meet specific needs. A reference list is included.
PUBLICATION NO. Q7 Customer Satisfaction Survey Resource Guide
Published: 1995
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Prepared by Pam Stewart of Health Care Designs, the coverage plan includes relevant areas of the HIM 11 with each section analyzed in detail; exact recommendations for actions to ensure care is covered; numerous examples of clinical documentation and ideas on operational procedures and tools. The CON Plan analyzes each G-tag to identify vulnerable areas; ideas to ensure compliance and recommended procedures and tools to facilitate adherance. Great tools for new employee orientation and/or staff training!
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NO. K10 Compliance Plans for Medicare Coverage NO. K11 Medicare Conditions of Participation
Published: 1998
This manual is for use by home health agencies implementing the Outcome and ASessment Information Set (OASIS) as part of their patient-specific comprehensive assessment. This implementation is occuring in the context of a modification to the Medicare Conditions of Participation (CoPs) promulgated by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) in two new rules. The manual is expressly written for HHA agency staff who will be implementing the use of OASIS as a uniform core data set for patient assessment and outcome measurement followed by computerization and reporting of OASIS data to the State agency.
Publication No. B1C
Published: July 1999 update
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