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locating/tracking volunteer location for emergencies

Posted By Susan Morawski 06-30-2026 02:28 PM
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How do you track your volunteers or know where they are located in the event of an emergency? What systems do you use? ------------------------------ Susan Morawski LVHN Home Health Pennsylvania ------------------------------

Documentation of wound care performed

Posted By Susan Morawski 03-18-2026 08:49 AM
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How are your clinicians documenting wound care performed? Is it a statement, "wound care performed as ordered" or is a detailed list such as, cleansed with normal saline, applied......" We are in Remote Client in Epic. Appreciate your feedback as this was an area of focus during a DOH survey. ...

advance notice of discharge for a non-Medicare patient

Posted By Susan Morawski 02-17-2026 10:41 AM
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A NOMNOC is used for Medicare patients to serve as advance notice of discharge. What do you use for non-Medicare patients? Do you use the same time requirements of 2 days in advance? ------------------------------ Susan Morawski LVHN Home Health Pennsylvania ------------------------------

field competency evaluations

Posted By Susan Morawski 01-06-2026 10:43 AM
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Who do you have completing annual competency evals for your skilled disciplines? Is it always the Mgr? Does a like discipline conduct the skills portion and a Mgr conduct the remaining such as CoPs, Infection control, etc? I can't find any specifics in the regs that specify that competency evals must ...

Hospice volunteers: what does your annual education look like?

Posted By Susan Morawski 11-13-2025 12:02 PM
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How much time do you require for your volunteers annually. Do you use the same topics or different each year? Do you have one session annually or offer different sessions throughout the year? ------------------------------ Susan Morawski LVHN Home Health Pennsylvania ---------------------- ...

Age Specific Home Health Aide education resources

Posted By Susan Morawski 07-01-2025 04:16 PM
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Hey all - I'm curious what you use for your source of Home Health Aide education for age specific populations. We used to use Age Specifics which is no longer an option. Appreciate your feedback! ------------------------------ Susan Morawski LVHN Home Health Pennsylvania ------------------- ...

HOPE assessments in inpatient settings and patients who travel

Posted By Susan Morawski 06-27-2025 04:48 PM
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I'm curious about the HUV and potential subsequent SFVs when someone transfers from home to an inpatient setting. We currently create a new care plan when someone transfers and I'm wondering how we will track those visits. I also wonder about those requirements for patients who travel outside of our ...

competency evals by discipline

Posted By Susan Morawski 06-27-2025 01:46 PM
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Do annual competency evaluations need to be conducted by like discipline? Can a Manager who is a PT conduct an OT eval? I'd be interested to hear how other agencies complete annual competency evaluations. Thanks!! ------------------------------ Susan Morawski LVHN Home Health Pennsylvania ...

hospice cross training for physical therapists

Posted By Susan Morawski 05-16-2025 04:01 PM
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I'm looking for feedback on how agencies train and re-competency (annually) physical therapists that see mostly home care patients but also some hospice patients. What hospice content do you train? How often? Thanks for your input!! ------------------------------ Susan Morawski LVHN Home Health ...

hospice cross training for physical therapists

Posted By Susan Morawski 05-16-2025 04:01 PM
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I'm looking for feedback on how agencies train and re-competency (annually) physical therapists that see mostly home care patients but also some hospice patients. What hospice content do you train? How often? Thanks for your input!! ------------------------------ Susan Morawski LVHN Home Health ...

Do you send home care transfer summaries (hospitalized patient) on the weekends?

Posted By Susan Morawski 03-26-2025 10:44 AM
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We are trying to understand the definition of "business days" related to the regulation of sending a transfer summary within 2 business days. If the agency operates 7 days a week are we required to send transfer summaries 7 days a week? Or does CMS define M-F as business days and we are required to send ...

Emergency plans and SNFs

Posted By Susan Morawski 02-19-2025 04:40 PM
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How do you handle emergency preparedness for patients in a SNF? Do you maintain a copy of each SNFs EPP? Do you refer to SNF EPP when developing the patient's individualized EPP? Appreciate your input!! ------------------------------ Susan Morawski LVHN Home Health Pennsylvania ------- ...

discharge summary for hospice death

Posted By Susan Morawski 01-31-2025 03:30 PM
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Looking for best practice - do you complete a discharge summary or simply a decedent note? And if you complete a discharge summary, what prompted you to do so? What do you include in your summary vs note? Many thanks! ------------------------------ Susan Morawski LVHN Home Health Pennsylvania ...

Gift of Life requirements for GIP level persons

Posted By Susan Morawski 12-20-2024 12:17 PM
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Are there any regulatory requirements for reporting to GOL for our GIP patients who are on our IPU? We recently were asked about reporting deaths or imminent deaths. Thanks for your feedback! ------------------------------ Susan Morawski LVHN Home Health Pennsylvania ----------------------- ...

HHCCN

Posted By Susan Morawski 12-19-2024 01:10 PM
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Is it allowable to remove spaces in the new HHCCN to allow text to fit on one page? ------------------------------ Susan Morawski LVHN Home Health Pennsylvania ------------------------------

Use of patient care decision support tools

Posted By Susan Morawski 12-17-2024 09:12 AM
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Section 1557 requirement notes use of patient care decision support tools - what is your agency using to meet this standard? ------------------------------ [Meloni] [Jensen] [RN, BSN, MSM] [Director, Quality Improvement] [Providence St Joseph Home Care] [Anaheim] [CA] -------------------- ...

RE: Hand hygiene auditing for Home health and Hospice settings

Posted By Susan Morawski 12-10-2024 01:31 PM
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Great question Anna! We're considering patient or caregiver reporting. We're very early in our discussions. I'm interested to hear if others have alternative suggestions. ------------------------------ [Meloni] [Jensen] [RN, BSN, MSM] [Director, Quality Improvement] [Providence St Joseph Home ...

Discharge instructions

Posted By Susan Morawski 12-09-2024 04:47 PM
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Are discharge instructions required to be provided in writing at the time of discharge? Or can they be mailed? ------------------------------ [Meloni] [Jensen] [RN, BSN, MSM] [Director, Quality Improvement] [Providence St Joseph Home Care] [Anaheim] [CA] ------------------------------