Case Study: Bon Secours Home Care

Providence Home Care LLC is a home health care service institution that is located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This home health care agency was established in 2002. Providence Home Care LLC offers home care and private duty services. Some of the home health services include wound care, hospital prevention protocol, skilled and psychiatric nursing, monitoring chronic illness, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, patient and caregiver education, and more. Providence Home Care LLC has been awarded for being a National Top 500 Agency. This home health care facility is also the winner of the Quality Excellence Award.

Fit Adult Care Home LLC is a residential care home located in the beautiful city of Gresham, Oregon, which is Multnomah County. Our historic community is the fourth largest in the state with wonderful restaurants and shops. Gresham is a wonderful place to live with lots of events and activities for family and friends to enjoy when visiting.

A patient is admitted to your surgical center for minor surgery that involves a breast biopsy under local anesthesia. The surgeon has previously informed the patient of the surgery risks, options, desired outcomes, and possible complications. A staff member brings the surgical permit form to the patient for her signature. The patient readily states that she knows about the surgery and has no additional questions. She signs the form with no hesitation.

We received your grievance request regarding your monthly explanation of benefits showing services for a walker that you never received nor need. This request was received by Blue Cross® Blue Shield® of Arizona Advantage (HMO) on December 30, 2016

After a review of the clinical information provided by Ocean Breeze Home Care, the Medical Director has determined that power operated vehicle and the power operated vehicle accessory is not medically necessary. The information presented is limited, consisting of a diagnosis and proposed services for a scooter (Power Operated Vehicle). The information we have does not support a scooter as a viable option for you; with severe shoulder capsulitis, limitation of motion, weakness in your upper extremities and an inability to take more than a step without a walker. We would recommend that you have another evaluation as to what is the best equipment considering your present condition and activity of daily living abilities. Without clinical information

Thank you for meeting with me regarding the employment opportunities. I will like to inform you that as of yesterday I accepted a Full time position as a recruiter with Marquis Home Care. They are located at 230 North Main Street Spring Valley NY 10977 and their phone number is 845-363-8140. Should you need further information, please feel free to contact me by phone or email.

SC received OLTL ISP approval. SC ordered Pa services in Oracle and generated them in SAMS. SC terminated JEVS Home Care as provider agency and replaces it with BLESSINGS4EVER HOME CARE AGENCY. SC updated both SAMS and Oracle with new provider. SC places order for stir gild assessment and service order instructions sheet. SC placed call to Pa and spoke with Marie/ CG and informed her of the ISP approval asked about her employment status with PAS provider agency and Maries states that she is still in the hiring process SC informed her that at this time she will not be paid for any PAS service she will provider during this time because she is not hired by the agency until she is the service will remain on hold. SC informed Marie that PERS and

In order to be properly prepared for an outage in the magnitude of what transpired to the CareGroup network, systems and process control may have prevented this unfortunate event from occurring. Instituting a preventive approach to network functionality and security, along with a contingency plan to deal with failures or breaches to the system should have been in place.

Mason Pointe is a senior living community of Lutheran Senior Services, LSS is an organization that provides a network of communities and programs for older adults. Mason Pointe is a nursing facility that has a combined acute-skilled short stay rehab, assistant living, and long-term care assistance. The prospects of study, are those residents that are residing in the facility long-term. Long-term is dissimilar from acute healthcare. It encompasses services related to maintaining quality of life, preserving individual dignity, and satisfying preferences in lifestyle for someone with a disability severe enough to require the assistance of others in everyday activities (Tabloski 2006). The residents in the long-term care facility rely on the nursing

Contribute and supported care between the physician, nurse, and case manager in delivering quality patient care. Trained client in the use of medical devices necessary for independent living and to maintain their quality of life, including collaborations with customer’s families to assist, document and provide resources.

CCIB received an email from RP stating he feels compelled to file a complaint against an unlicensed Home Care provider that is perpetrating consumer fraud upon frail and elderly residents of an Assisted Living Community. RP reported Norma & Christina (employees of Park Plaza) have been referring new residents to 24/7 Keep in Touch (24/7 KIT). Hazel, who operates 24/7 KIT (the unlicensed operation) miss-represents to the elderly caller or their advocate that 24/7 Keep in Touch is Licensed by the State and that all caregivers are "employees". Hazel, with the referrals from Norma and Christina has placed at least 5 caregivers at this ALC without proper credentials. Sadly, the families paying for these services believe they are contracted with a licensed company which properly employs caregivers and

The family assists with transportation to get food and for MD appointments. Pt ambulates well without any medical devices. MSW educated on the benefits of thinking of a cane or walker in the future in case the Pt starts becoming less ambulaery. Rudy said the patient has fallen in the house while no one was home. The patient was still on the floor until Rudy found her. To increase safety within the home, the MSW provided the family contact numbers and information for LIFELINE to get those services started as soon as possible. MSW provided a local caregivng agency, Careing Companions (888) 950-0750 for addtional caregivering in the home as needed. Rudy stated his major concern is that the Pt is starting to have memory problems and forgots things while doing house tasks. One time, the Pt forget to turn off the oven burner and casued her dinner to catch on fire. Pt and family wishes for her to stay in the home and not interested in A.L opitions at this time. Rudy said he will speak to the other brother, Danny, who is the POA about future caregiving opitions. The Pt appears to be stable, coping well and has family close by to assist her if needed. Pt stated she will contact the MSW or office if additional MSW services are

In 2013, Dorota Slawa Mankowska et al, worked on real study for a home care company that present the care for the at patients in their homes by staff members. They developed the mathematical model that aim to optimizing economical service cost and take care about individual qualifications of the staff, time preferences of patients, number of the staff required to this patient and certain time of patient’s drugs. This model has been able to achieve low average waiting times for patients, low traveling cost for caregivers, a fair distribution of inevitable tardiness, and service hundred patients in acceptable runtime.

Over the past few decades there has been an increasing emphasis on self-care and home health care. Due to the Recent changes in health care towards individual’s autonomy and self-control, increasing aging population, the shift from acute to chronic diseases and early discharge policies, many health care services that were previously provided in hospital settings are now being shifted to home (CHCA 2014, CHA 2009). Although the demand for home care has a significant increasing trend (HGO 2015), yet Canadians are not entitled to home care services under the Canadian Health Act (CHA 1985). Home health care services are provided under the name of “extended service”, meaning

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