Case Study Of Up Home Health Care

1. Home Healthcare Case: Given what you have learned about the accessibility and financing of home care services, are such services as readily available to other consumers as they were to Joan and Jerry? In this particular case regarding Joan and Jerry, and the availability of home health care services compared to that of others is a quite simple. Lack of knowledge and understanding is of the utmost detrimental in medical terms due to the fact that there are many programs that are available to help those with disabilities or home bound. In this case, perhaps Joan and Jerry 's daughter should have been more involved with the medical needs of both her parents. Especially due to the age of her father who was in desperate attempt to keep his disabled wife comfortable in their home. Home health care services are readily available to covered members of Medicare/Medicaid or other third-party payers. Although in Joan 's later days of life, her medical needs were being attended to by home health care professionals, perhaps her life could have been extended and foreseen medical conditions that could have prevented another stroke. "Being an informal caregiver plays a huge role in providing care and relief to long-term consumers (Pratt, 2010)." If Jerry would have taken advantage of home health care and it 's available services at an earlier stage, then perhaps he would not have to have had a hip replacement by having more rest to take care of himself. "As with other forms of long-term

Dorrance Darling an 18 year old college football player, who was injured during a play and was rushed to a small accredited Emergency room, where a general practitioner, Dr Alexander, treated his wounds (Pozgar,2013). Dr. Alexander had not treated a major leg fracture in three years (Pozgar, 2013). An x-ray was performed that showed a tib/fib fracture, followed by Dr. Alexander reducing the fracture and applying a plaster cast from below the groin to the toes (Pozgar, 2013). Shortly after the reduction, the patient complained of pain, the cast was split and staff continued to visit patient (Pozgar, 2013). After two weeks, patient’s care was transferred to an orthopedic physician at a larger hospital, where they discovered considerable amounts of dead tissue requiring eventual leg amputation (Pozgar, 2013).

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.

The auditor reviewed the history of three physicians employed with Foot and Ankle Centers of Georgia; Dr. William Pearson, Dr. Gregory C Taylor, DPM and Dr. Robert B. Weinstein, DPM. The review period was from 12/12/16 to 12/13/16. The auditor (using Epic generated information) reviewed over 30 patient records. This access audit included the review

the Michael E. DeBakey Medical Center about his hospitalization on his discharge date. The VA Inpatient Attending denied Mr. K’s transfer request after the VA Attending had a provider-to-provider conference call with the physician at the Non-VA facility and learned that Mr. K was getting discharged the same day.

Your senior loved one is important and there are many different senior care services available. What do you do, how do you decide what service is best? In short, with all of the other choices in the market, why choose Comfort Keepers?

The Paradise Facility Home Care Inc. is a residential group home located in the historic town of Naples, Florida inside Collier County. The area celebrates heritage and the past with numerous events including the Historic Town Center. Naples is an ideal place to live and the various activities can be enjoyed by friends and family members when visiting.

This Network is dedicated towards providing a truly interactive patient care experience where the patient, family and their partners in care are active, engaged and empowered participants in their care continuum. By engaging the patient throughout their care, we improve: patient satisfaction, quality and safety, and finance & operations. It allows patients and their families to take a more active role in the care process by learning more about their condition, communicating with caregivers, preparing for discharge and caring for themselves at

Current pending policy in the 114th United States’ Congress includes the Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act (ANA). This legislation advocates changing the current Medicare conditions of participation, by granting authority to Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) to certify plans of care for home health patients. If written into law, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses that would be able to certify home health services would include nurse practitioners, certified nurse mid-wives and clinical nurse leaders. In addition, this designation would also give physician assistants access to the same authority (ANA).

NHHCS stands for National Home and Hospice Care Survey. This survey is designed to gather information on home health and hospice agencies, their services, their patients, and their staff. This survey was first conducted in 1992 and was most recently conducted in 2007. According to the 2007 survey there were 14,500 hospice care and home health care agencies in the United States. Of those agencies 75% only provided home health care, 15% only provided hospice care, and 10% offered both services. The average home health care only agency served 109 patients. The average hospice care agency served 78 patients. A total of 1,036 agencies participated in the 2007. Data was collected on 9,416 current hospice discharges and home health patients

Due to many foster parents not receiving proper support it is effecting not only the children but the agency as well. Many of the case workers at First Home Care, have so many children on the waiting list but not enough homes to put them in. Studies show children in the foster care that has great parents that care for their well-being 70% of them go on to become successful adults (Children’s Bureau, 2015). According to Staci Fattore (director of First Home Care) out of 100 foster parents 15% of the parents are complaining they do not receive support from the agency. Staci continued to state that FHC have several trainings throughout, the year but foster parents do not show up. She has also stated that children are forced to sleep in lobbies of DHS. Staci has stressed to me although FHC is a therapeutic agency foster parents give them a hard time when it is time to take in a child. They often ask the behavioral issues of the child or does the child have a history of physically attacking their foster parents.

Proposing that Abundant Home Healthcare accept HMO and PPO patients. A lot of Abundant Home Healthcare patients are leaving the traditional Medicare and joining the Medicare HMO/PPO Plans.

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.

To provide strategies and policy options to keep children and young people in out-of-home-care in education with a relatively satisfied performance, and to help the government in training and supporting for foster carers as they play a significant role in the academic performance and development of the children and young persons under their care.

A twenty-one year old female, basketball player experienced an ankle sprain by accidentally stepping on another player’s foot. The player was going up to make a shot landed on the opponents foot when she came back down, which made her ankle invert. The head athletic trainer evaluated her then taped her ankle to provide support and keep the swelling to a minimum at that time, so the player could return to play. Immediately after the game, the player’s ankle was iced down to control the swelling and was receiving NSAID’s to help with the pain or discomfort she was feeling. The player was referred to the team physician for x-rays and MRI to help rule out fractures. Treatment was started to help relieving the swelling and pain.