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Rehabilitation Therapy and Wound Management: Strategic Partnership in Home Health

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Rehabilitation therapists play an important role in the management of pressure injuries and other wounds in the home. Agency leaders and decision makers can take this a step further by reaching out to community hospitals and health systems, skilled nursing, and assisted living partners, and creating a more inclusive partnership.

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Reinstate hospital social workers to improve discharge outcomes, PSWs urge Barclay

Community Care

Hospital social workers should be reinstated onto wards to support people to achieve better outcomes on discharge, amid the current severe pressures on the NHS and social care. Managing chaos, doing our best for patients and supporting each other: hospital social work under Covid.

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DHSC rejects experts’ plan to curb ‘inhumane’ solitary confinement of disabled people in hospital

Community Care

The government has rejected an expert panel’s proposal to “severely curtail” the “inhumane” solitary confinement of people with learning disabilities and autistic people in mental health hospitals. However, she raised concerns about the time-limited nature of resourcing of them.

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Hospice Billing Compliance: The Latest PEPPER Updates

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PEPPER is a yearly report given to hospices, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation centers, and other U.S. You can look at the PEPPER website’s user guide list to see all target areas and a list of potential interventions for each. What Is the PEPPER? healthcare providers.

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What is Pre-Acute Care and Why Do We Need it?

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Pre-acute care is a term that describes the care provided to patients before they need acute care services such as hospitalization or an emergency department visit. Pre-acute care may include preventive screenings, health education, and early intervention programs. Lowering the costs of hospital care can benefit payers and providers.

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What is Pre-Acute Care and Why Do We Need it?

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Pre-acute care is a term that describes the care provided to patients before they need acute care services such as hospitalization or an emergency department visit. Pre-acute care may include preventive screenings, health education, and early intervention programs. Lowering the costs of hospital care can benefit payers and providers.

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Understanding the PEPPER Can Reduce Home Health and Skilled Nursing Audit Risks

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Inpatient rehabilitation facilities. Long‐term acute care hospitals. Partial hospitalization programs. Short-term acute care hospitals. Critical access hospitals. You can look at the PEPPER website’s user guide to see all target areas and a list of potential interventions for each. Home health agencies.