National Home Health Care Survey

Plaza Home Health is a home health company that’s located in Georgetown. Nancy Edwards and Jennifer Moore are the co-owners of Plaza Home Health Services. They provide home health services to the community. Nancy and Jennifer is commitment to giving excellence home health services, which has led to their company have the best quality much greater compare to their competitors. They have looked at consolidating their position in the market by financial discipline and great efforts in building a brand in the market that would be acknowledged as being synonymous with the home health service segment.

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

Effective June 1, 2012, Hillsboro County Home Health Agency (HCHHA) will be launching a new division offering Hospice services to Middleboro and surrounding community residents. This hospice center will provide end-of-life care in the form of medical, psychological, social and spiritual support for the terminally ill and their families. Hospice care services are typically structured according to the needs and wishes of each patient and their family. These may change over time and during the different stages of care (the last phases of an illness, the dying process and the

Initially we had difficulty obtaining his discharge orders as the hospital care manager replied she had forwarded the documentation, but neither I nor Mrs. Bianco had received a copy. Mrs. Bianco made a visit to Mills Creek and met with Mr. Smith at that time she was made aware of an appointment that Mr. Smith attended. Mr. Smith attended a physician appointment on June 28, 2017 with Dr. Leonard, Orthopedic trauma. Mills Creek assisted with the transportation and a mobile x-ray unit was coordinated to obtain x-rays of the femur at the facility as Mr. Smith didn’t bring his slide board to the appointment and couldn’t get onto the radiology table.

The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization reported that, as of 2003, there were 3,139 hospice programs in operation in the United States, Guam and Puerto Rico (Wexler & Frey, 2004). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics said that, in 2000, there were 11,400 combined home health and hospice care agencies, which served 1.5 million patients. It also reported that, at present, more than 90% of hospice care is delivered at home, although based in medical facilities. Hospital-based programs often provide hospice care in a wing or a

In contrast to the costs of standard medical care, hospice care provides an alternative that is both cost effective and caring. Unfortunately, it is actually difficult to quantify the cost savings associated with hospice care due to the fact that comparing costs during the last year of life are impacted by the variability in the length of hospice use. A study at Duke University went to extensive lengths to provide a comparison that provided an effective method for accurate comparisons. The comparison showed a reduced average Medicare expenditure of $2,309 per person from the time hospice care was initiated in comparison to the same situation handled through standard medical methods (Taylor, Ostermann, Houtven, Tulsky, & Steinhauser, 2007). The amount of cost savings varied depending on the primary health condition and the

Johns Hopkins Home Care Group (JHHCG) established in 1983 is a subsidiary of Johns Hopkins Medicine, one of the nation’s leading health systems. It provides home medical equipment, specialty infusion services, pediatrics at home, home health services, personal care and nursing, hospice care, and pharmacy—specialty and community services. JHHCG provided services all over Maryland and in some portions of northern Virginia and southeast Pennsylvania to pediatrics and adults in the comfort of their living space.

Great strides have been made to improve end-of-life care through palliative care and hospice programs, but sometimes that’s just not enough. In America, the care that is offered to the elderly and the chronically ill is less than ideal. Statistics show that an

The alternative in providing care for a dependent family member is keeping them in their own home, or the home of a family member. In recent years there has been a move in market place to an idea that is much more cost effective to provide most of the same services that traditionally found in a long-term care facility in the home. It is estimated that providing these services in the home are approximately $21,800.00 a year. It is also important that these figures only cover the cost of providing skilled health care. These figures do not cover additional expenses occurred in the home such as the cost of room and board. In many instances, the idea of keeping family members in the home where their care, may be more closely supervised is becoming increasingly appealing. Many health care providers are recognizing this and providing more and more services available in the home. In today’s market place anyone can find nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and respiratory therapy companies

According to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, (NHPCO, 2012) in 2011, an estimated 1.65 million patients received services from hospice and an estimated 44.6% of all deaths in the United States were patients under hospice care. In 2001, an estimated 36.6% of cancer patients accessed three of more days of hospice care. The median length of service in 2011 was 19.1 days. 56.4% of hospice patients were female and 43.6% were male. 83.3% of hospice patients were 65 years of age or older, and more than one-third of all hospice patients were 85 years of age or older. 82.8% of hospice patients were white/Caucasian. Patients of minority (non-Caucasian) race accounted for more than one fifth of hospice patients. Today cancer diagnoses account for less than half of all hospice admissions (37.7%). Currently less than 25% of U.S. deaths are now caused by cancer, with the majority of death due to other terminal diseases. The top four non-cancer primary diagnoses for patients admitted to hospice in 2011 were debility, dementia, heart disease, and lung disease (NHPCO, 2012).

Nursing home facility is for patients who need extended care because they are very sick or unable to function without continued nursing and supportive services in a formal health care facility. These patients are sick and/or are in need of assistance but they are not ill enough that they require the intense treatment and care offered at a hospital. About forty-seven percent of all nursing home facility care is paid for by Medicaid and residents and their families pay approximately one-third of the cost for the facility services. In recent years the length of time one stays at a nursing home has greatly decreased. Even with the decrease in stay there is still a fifty percent chance of an individual in his/her lifetime having to spend some time in a nursing facility. Both of these previous mentioned trends is reflective of the nursing facilities moving toward becoming more technologically sophisticated as well as being able to function as more of a

Home Health Compare can be of great assistance to individuals with making the decision about which home health company to pick. It provides information regarding quality of care given by home health agencies that are Medicare-certified. If the home health agency is not Medicare-certified, Medicare will not pay for the services. On the Home Health Compare website, up to three agencies can be selected to compare each other. General information, quality of patient care, and patient survey results are the three comparable areas between the different home health agencies.

For these people, a reliable quality care serves as vital component. But, available studies mention that end of life care has become a poor quality for nursing home residents. There are reports on improper management of shortness of breath, increased prevalence of unrelieved pain, and poor satisfaction among family members about care and communication. Such defects have an association with financing arrangements for long-term and end-of-life care services which are under the control of acceptability, fees, and regulatory mechanisms (Huskamp et al.,

HCC provides special care services for individuals who are terminally ill through a coordinated system of care and is facilitated with a team of nurses, social workers, spiritual counselors, and providers that are dedicated to the belief that quality of life matters. HCC provides services that are grouped and fall under the umbrella of Palliative care, Hospice care, and Bereavement care. These services that they offer mainly include: home health aide, counseling, medical social services, medical supply services, nursing services, occupational therapy, physician services, physical therapy,

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.