Downloadable Home Healthcare Resources
 

Informational Resources and Alliance Publications

Home Health Quality Improvement National Campaign

A new and improved Home Health Quality Improvement (HHQI) National Campaign will launch January 13, 2010.

HHQI National Campaign is a grassroots movement designed to unite home health stakeholders and multiple health care settings under the shared vision of reducing avoidable hospitalizations and improving medication management. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has contracted with WVMI & Quality Insights to lead this national initiative across settings.

As an HHQI Local Area Network of Excellence (LANE), we are the central hib of campaign activity for Alliance members. Please join us in the movement to evolve home health care through quality improvement: the new HHQI National Campaign.

Avalere Health Study: The Medicare Home Health Benefit / Program Costs and Beneficiary Characteristics (pdf)

Home Health Care: an Essential Solution to America's Health Care Challenges (pdf)

• Dire Prospects for Medicare and its Beneficiaries (pdf)
• The Home Health Solution (pdf)
• Defining Home Health (pdf)
• Home Care/Home Health Terminology: What Does it Mean? (pdf)
• Who Receives Home Health? (pdf)
• Who Provides Direct Home Health Services? (pdf)
• The Home Health Team (pdf)
• The Differing Roles of Hospital and Home Health Nurses (pdf)
• Who Pays for Home Health? (pdf)
• National Home Health Expenditures and Utilization (pdf)
• Medicare Home Health (pdf)
• Medicare Home Health Prospective Payment (pdf)
• Medicaid Home Health (pdf)
• Home Health under Managed Care (pdf)
• Current OASIS Home Health Measures and Industry Progress (pdf)
• OASIS Standardized Requirements at Start of Home Health Patient Care (pdf)
• Upcoming OASIS Home Health Measures (pdf)
• Home Health Patient Satisfaction Measures (pdf)
• Current Home Health Innovation in Chronic Care and Rehabilitation (pdf)
• Home Health Innovation inside the Veterans’ Administration (pdf)
• Home Health Acute Care Hospitalization Initiatives (pdf)
• Available Tools for Home Health Best Practices and Standardization (pdf)
• Home Health’s Role in Chronic Care and Care Coordination (pdf)
• Using Home Health Information Technology (pdf)
• Home Health Effectiveness Demonstrated by Independent Research (pdf)
• Home Health’s Ability to Control National Health Care Costs (pdf)
• Overwhelming Patient Preference for Home Health (pdf)
• What Government Officials Say About Home Health (pdf)

 The Future of Home Health Care (pdf) - Finding solutions to offset ever-rising health care costs is a top and critical issue facing public policy officials at every level of government; federal, state and local.  As the need to streamline and improve our healthcare delivery system becomes more urgent, the skilled home health care should be part of those of those efforts.  

Medicare and Home Health Care (pdf) - The Official government booklet about Medicare home health care benefits for people in the Original Medicare Plan.