Stabilizing Function: Effective Use of Therapy Services to Reduce Rehospitalizations is proudly presented to you by National Association for Home Care & Hospice. Thank you. We hope that you enjoy your course.
Health care reform is moving full steam ahead. As it does, the various parts of the post-acute care continuum rethink their service delivery to position themselves as attractive partners. This can be challenging when you’re talking about therapy since it’s difficult to execute therapy programs that aren’t geared toward improvement. There’s frustration among therapists who have spent their careers focused on improvement, combined with misunderstanding among referral sources. This mix of emotions can complicate the use of therapy in maintenance and hospice programs, but you can succeed with help from our presenters. This session will provide home care agencies with tips on using therapy programs to manage outcomes and reduce rehospitalizations when the focus of is on preventing or slowing decline.
Categories: Quality, Clinical
Key Words: Palliative, Outcomes
Audiences: Nurses, Therapists, Home Health, Hospice
Objective 1: Define skilled, reasonable, and necessary therapy services and connect to them Medicare coverage criteria
Objective 2: Create a structure for implementing effective and efficient maintenance therapy programs
Objective 3: Incorporate therapy in hospice and palliative care programs
Instructor:
Cindy Krafft, MS, PT, HCS-O
Chief Executive Officer, Kornetti & Krafft Health Care Solutions; Peoria, Illinois