Home Health Regional Meetings
Home Health Regional Meetings
Each quarter, Primaris hosts Home Health Regional Meetings, which bring home health agencies across the state together to learn, share and discuss quality improvement for their industry. All Missouri home health agencies are invited to their local meeting free of charge.
Free CD toolkits from Regional Meetings can be ordered through Primaris' Home Health Products.
February 2008 - "Strategies for Improving Urinary Incontinence: This is Not a Dry Run"
Regional Meeting Presentation Materials and Tools
These materials are featured on the Feb. 21, 2008 Primaris Regional Meeting on the topic of Urinary Incontinence. Click "Adobe Acrobat PDF" or "Word Document" to download and print.
- Agenda (Adobe Acrobat PDF)
- Joyce Rackers, state OASIS coordinator, explains OASIS guidelines MO520 and MO530 (Adobe Acrobat PDF)
- Carolyn Crumley, a clinical nurse specialist in adult health, and Lisa Holtmeyer, an occupational therapist, discuss urinary incontinence assessment, treatment approaches, behavioral interventions and more. (Adobe Acrobat PDF)
- Presentation handouts/resources (Word Document)
- Anatomy handout (Adobe Acrobat PDF)
- ACH statewide scatterplot (Adobe Acrobat PDF)
- Oral Meds statewide scatterplot (Adobe Acrobat PDF)
Call In Information
If you have registered for this teleconference:
- Call in at 12:30 p.m.
- Dial 1-800-868-1837
- When prompted, enter the participant code: 596513#
Note: Make sure to enter the participant code followed by #.
Past Regional Meetings
November 2007 - OASIS Changes for 2008
The November Regional Meeting focussed on the latest OASIS changes with guest speaker Joyce Rackers, state OASIS Education Coordinator. She presented the OASIS changes that took effect on January 1, 2008. This was not a basic OASIS class and it did not deal with PPS and payment questions. Joyce covered the new MO items being added; the MO items being deleted; correct assessment techniques and responses to some of the other OASIS MO items that are critically important in determining case-mix and outcome measures; and tips for OASIS accuracy to share with your clinical staff.
May 2007 - Improving Communication Using S-B-A-R
Establishing and maintaining effective communication is critical throughout Home Health Agency operations: within the agency, among care team members, with physicians and referral sources, and with patients and caregivers. In May we focused on using SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation) to improve staff communication skills. Primaris provided information on the SBAR process, including disease-specific templates and scenarios to take back to your agency for staff training and implementation.
As usual, we had the latest updates on the statewide rankings for ACH and Improvement in Management of Oral Meds and had a new regional version of this graph for each meeting area. Also on the agenda: Target Setting discussion and questions, best practices monitoring, Immunization assessments, copies of the Remington Report magazine for all agencies, updates on the HHQI National Campaign to reduce ACH, and time for sharing ideas for effective best practice implementation.
February 2007 - Applying the Chronic Care Model to Non-Compliant Patients
Guest speaker Dorothy Andrae, MHA, BSN, RN, CPHQ, Clinical Resource Manager shared the Chronic Care Model, an organizational approach to caring for people with chronic disease.
The Chronic Care Model emphasizes planned, integrated collaborative chronic care and creates practical, supportive, evidence based interactions between an informed, activated patient and a prepared, proactive practice team. Care management improves functional and clinical outcomes in patients with chronic disease and reduces the need for expensive medical services. A major focus of this model is to create and support self-management for more effective care and outcomes. After Dorothy's presentation, we will be applying the principles of the Chronic Care Model to four case studies of home care patients: CHF, COPD, Diabetes and Wound Care.
November 2006 - Are You On Target?
This meeting provided an introduction to home health target setting using the new Home Health STAR Web site and provided new tools and resources for reducing acute care hospitalizations, telehealth, risk adjustment and pay-for-performance. The 2006 Primaris Quality Award was officially opened for entries. Click here to order the free CD toolkit.
August 2006 - Immunizations A-Z & Hospitalizations: The Next Step
August meetings included presentations on immunizations, acute care hospitalizations (ACH) and pay-for-performance. Immunization content focused on preparation for the upcoming influenza season and the importance of pneumonia vaccination. Eleven tools were provided to assist with ACH, including physician and family communication. Click here to order the free CD toolkit.
May 2006 - Improvement in Management of Oral Medications
Oral medication management was the focus of May meetings, including open discussion among agencies about barriers and successes. Acute care hospitalization prevention was also broached, with discussion of why patients are being hospitalized, what is working and what is not. Click here to order the free CD toolkit.
For more information contact:
Teresa Northcutt, RN, BSN |
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