Home Health & Hospice Policies & Procedures
Core
- Active Shooter Policy-HH & H
- Administrative Qualifications
- Adverse Events
- Approved Abbreviations
- Authorization for Use and Disclosure of PHI
- Availability of Services
- Bag Technique and Trunk Storage
- Care and Service Coordination
- CLIA Laboratory-Waived Testing
- Clinical Competency Program
- Clinical Record Retention
- Communication-Alternative
- Complaints and Grievance Policy
- Corporate Compliance Plan
- Development of Policies and Procedures
- Discharge for Cause
- Discrimination Policy
- DNR Policy
- Documentation Timeliness
- ED-Administrator Absence
- ED-Administrator Appointment
- Education-Safe Use of Equipment and Supplies
- Emergency Preparedness Communication Plan
- Emergency Preparedness Policy
- Emergency Preparedness-Volunteer Policy
- Ethical Issues
- Financial Management and Control
- Financial Responsibilities
- Governing Body
- Hand Hygiene
- Infection Control Plan
- Infection-Coronavirus Core Policy (RETIRED)
- Informed Consent and Refusal of Treatment
- Lippincott Online Procedures
- Mandated Vaccination Against COVID-19 (RETIRED)
- Medical Marijuana
- Medication Profile
- Mission Statement
- Orientation to Ohio Living Home Health and Hospice
- Patient Bill of Rights
- Patient Safety in Residential Care Facility/Assisted Living Facility
- Physician Orders-Receipt and Processing
- Plan if Organization Closes
- Policy Decisions
- Post-Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens
- Protected Health Information
- Protocols for Physician Orders
- Public Disclosure of Information
- Quality Assessment Process Improvement (QAPI)
- Referral Disclosure and Care Decisions
- Safe Medical Device Act
- Safety Program
- Staff Conflicts with Aspects of Care
- Standards of Care, Service and Practice
- Storage of Medications and Nutritional Therapies
- Triaging Patients in Case of Emergencies
- Tuberculosis Exposure Control Plan
- Viewing a Patient's SSN
Emergency
Home Health
- Abuse and Neglect Assessment and Reporting
- Annual Self-Assessment Scorecard-Home Health
- Annual Self-Assessment-Home Health
- Assessment-Initial Comprehensive
- Assessment-Nutritional
- Assessment-On-going
- Assessment-Pain
- Assessment-Recertification and Reassessments
- Care Conference and Progress Summary
- Care Planning Process
- Chore-Support Worker Service Plan
- Continuity of Care
- Coordination and Communication with Other Providers
- Discharge Criteria and Process
- Discharge Planning
- Discharge Summary
- Education-Home Safety
- Education-Infection Control
- Education-Medication Teaching
- Education-Oxygen Use
- Education-Patient and Caregiver
- Education-Pain Management
- Financial Responsibility Medicare Written Notices
- Home Health Administrator
- Home Health Aide Patient Assignment
- Home Health Aide Supervisory Visits
- Home Health Patient's Bill of Rights
- Human Resources-Competency Assessments
- Human Resources-Consultative Services
- Human Resources-Home Health Personnel
- Human Resources-Inservices and Training
- Human Resources-Supervision of Clinical Services
- Intake Process
- Laboratory-Home Glucose Monitoring
- Laboratory-Waived Tests
- Medical Record-Documentation and Record Review
- Medical Record-Oasis Submission
- Medication Administration and Documentation
- Medication Errors
- Medication Storage
- Medication-Adverse Drug Reactions
- Medication-Controlled Substances
- Medication-Intravenous Administration
- Medication-Knowledge of Prior to Administration
- Medications-Patient Self-Administration
- Missed Visits
- Notification of Changes to Patient
- Nutrition Care Planning
- OASIS-Overriding OASIS or Plan of Care Content
- On Call
- Organizational Chart-HH (RETIRED)
- Physician Participation in Plan of Care
- Recertification Summary (RETIRED)
- Rehabilitation Care Planning
- Reportable Infectious Diseases-Ohio
- Reporting to the Physician
- Scope of Services-HH
- Services Provided-HH
- Supervision of Clinical Services
- Telemedicine
- Telemedicine Discharge Criteria
- Telemedicine Plan of Care
- Telemedicine-Admission Criteria
- Transfer Summary
- Transfer-Referral Criteria and Process
Home Health Provider / Handoff Process
Hospice
- Abuse Policy-Hospice
- Admission Criteria and Process
- Assessment-Comprehensive Hospice Assessment
- Assessment-Initial Hospice Assessment
- Assessment-Ongoing Comprehensive Hospice Assessment
- Bereavement Services
- Care for Patients in SNF, NF or ICF
- Certification of Terminal Illness
- Change of Designated Hospice
- Contracted Services
- Coordination of Care Between Inpatient Setting and Home
- Coordination of Care with Contracts and Agreements
- Discharge and Transfer from Hospice
- E Hospice Policy - Section Five - Patient and Family Caregiver Education
- Election of the Hospice Benefit
- Financial Responsibility for Hospice Services
- General Inpatient Services
- Hospice Administrator
- Hospice Aide-Homemaker Services
- Hospice Nursing Care
- Informed Consent
- Interdisciplinary Group Membership and Responsibilities
- Medical Emergencies
- Medical Record-Contents of the Medical Record
- Medicare Hospice Benefit
- Medication Management and Monitoring
- Medication-Control of Narcotics in the Home
- Medication-Disposal of Controlled Substances
- Medications-Administration and Documentation of Medications
- On-Call and Weekend Services
- Organizational Planning-Hospice
- Pain Assessment and Management
- Patient Safety
- Patient's Bill of Rights-Hospice
- Philosophy, Mission and Purpose
- POC-Interdisciplinary Hospice Plan of Care
- Postmortem Procedures
- Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement-Hospice
- Regulatory Compliance
- Revocation of the Hospice Benefit
- Scope of Services
- Spiritual Care and Counseling
- Staffing Guidelines-Hospice
- Staffing Guidelines-NHPCO
- Supervision of Hospice Personnel
- Training-Hospice
- Volunteer Services
- Hospice Survey
Palliative Medicine
- Cardinal Supplies Training PowerPoint
- Exufiber
- Exufiber Ag+
- MBFlex - Product Sheet
- MBFlex - Time to Change Sheet
- Mefix
- Melgisorb Ag
- Melgisorb PLUS
- Mepilex
- Mepilex Ag
- Mepilex Border Ag
- Mepilex Border Lite
- Mepilex Transfer
- Mepore
- Mepore Film
- Mesalt
- MoInlycke Wound Care Products
- Normlgel Ag
- Wound Dressing Selection Guide
EMBRACE
Associated Documents
- Embrace Preferences Coordination Note Process
- Facility Protocols Entry with Visual Steps
- Facility Protocols Form - New Embrace
- Facility Protocols - Workflow Diagram
- Review Hospice Evaluation Documentation Audit
Playbooks
- Chaplain Playbook
- General Playbook
- Hospice Aide Playbook
- Hospice Nurse Playbook
- Hospice Team Leader Playbook
- Liaison Playbook
- Local Medical Records Playbook
- MSW Playbook
- Scheduler Playbook
- Volunteer Coordinator Playbook
Recorded Training