Home Health Care Safety Issues

Listing Websites about Home Health Care Safety Issues

Filter Type:

Home Health Care Patients and Safety Hazards in the Home: …

(4 days ago) WEBIntroduction: Home health care is the fastest growing sector in the health care industry, with an anticipated growth of 66 percent over the next 10 years and with over 7 million patients served each year. With the increasing acuteness of care provided in home …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK43619/

Category:  Health Show Health

Patient Safety and Quality in Home Health Care

(3 days ago) WEBThis chapter includes an analysis of the evidence on promoting patient safety and health care quality in relation to problems frequently seen in home health care. The following six areas were selected for review: …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2631/

Category:  Health Show Health

Patient Safety in the Home - Institute for Healthcare …

(9 days ago) WEBmeasure, and improve the safety of home care. Patient safety issues in the home are multifaceted; we use four dimensions to organize them. The physical dimension involves …

https://www.ihi.org/sites/default/files/2023-10/PatientSafetyInTheHome_2017.pdf

Category:  Health Show Health

Patient Safety in the Home: Assessment of Issues, Challenges, and

(2 days ago) WEBPatient safety challenges related to greater reliance on home care; Dimensions of patient safety issues in the home: Physical, emotional, social and functional The health …

https://www.ihi.org/resources/publications/patient-safety-in-the-home-assessment-issues-challenges-opportunities

Category:  Health Show Health

As Home Care Expands, Let’s Make It Safer For Everyone

(1 days ago) WEBAs of 2016, there were about two million personal care attendants in the US, a figure that is expected to grow by 40 percent over the next 10 years. Almost 144,000 skilled professionals

https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/home-care-expands-let-s-make-safer-everyone

Category:  Health Show Health

Home Healthcare - Overview - Occupational Safety and Health …

(6 days ago) WEBHome healthcare workers provide hands-on long-term care and personal assistance to clients with disabilities or other chronic conditions. These workers, who may be home …

https://www.osha.gov/home-healthcare

Category:  Health Show Health

Challenges and Opportunities in Home Health Quality …

(7 days ago) WEBThe quality improvement (QI) challenges around home healthcare are myriad. QI remains more established in other care settings (e.g., acute care and nursing homes), but it is advancing in home health. This is good …

https://www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/home-health-quality-improvement.html

Category:  Health Show Health

No Place Like Home: Advancing the Safety of Care in the Home.

(9 days ago) WEBThe home care setting harbors unique challenges to patient safety. This report builds on a previous evidence assessment to provide recommendations to improve the safety of home-based care. The document outlines five guiding principles to enhance safety of home care, which include a focus on person-centered care, safety culture, …

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/no-place-home-advancing-safety-care-home

Category:  Health Show Health

Patient Safety in the Home: Assessment of Issues, Challenges, …

(5 days ago) WEBThe ambulatory environment presents unique situations that can introduce safety challenges into care processes. This report explores factors in home-based care that can affect patient safety, including insufficient household readiness for patients and poor communication between caregivers, patients, and the medical team. The authors …

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-safety-home-assessment-issues-challenges-and-opportunities

Category:  Medical Show Health

COVID-19 Intensifies Home Care Workforce Challenges ASPE

(Just Now) WEBAt the time of our interviews in December 2020 and January 2021, access to COVID-19 vaccines was emerging as an issue for home care workers. As with …

https://aspe.hhs.gov/reports/covid-19-intensifies-home-care-workforce-challenges

Category:  Health Show Health

No Place Like Home: Advancing the Safety of Care in the …

(6 days ago) WEBthe safety of care in the home going forward must recognize and build on that foundation. The panel identified five guiding principles to advance the safety of care in the home, as well as recommendations and specific strategies and tools to put these principles into action (see box below). Five Guiding Principles for Advancing Home Care …

https://www.ashp.org/-/media/assets/policy-guidelines/docs/endorsed-documents/endorsed-documents-no-place-like-home-advancing-safety.pdf

Category:  Health Show Health

Patient safety in home health care: a grounded theory study

(8 days ago) WEBThe home environment is designed for living, not for professional care. For this reason, safe patient care is one of the most important challenges of home health …

https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-023-09458-9

Category:  Health Show Health

Patient Safety and Quality in Home Health Care - PubMed

(1 days ago) WEBHome health care clinicians seek to provide high quality, safe care in ways that honor patient autonomy and accommodate the individual characteristics of each patient’s …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21328733/

Category:  Health Show Health

Safety Strategies for Care in the Home - Safer Healthcare - NCBI …

(5 days ago) WEBSafety in home care is likely to require different concepts, approaches and solutions. For instance a colleague, who is a carer for a family member with serious …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK481879/

Category:  Health Show Health

Home Health Care Patients and Safety Hazards in the Home: …

(8 days ago) WEBPotential health hazards in the home (Table 3) were frequently reported. Most commonly reported hazards were unsanitary conditions. (e.g., insects, rodents) and air pollutants …

https://www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Gershon_88.pdf

Category:  Health Show Health

The Unique Occupational Environment of the Home Healthcare …

(8 days ago) WEBThe home healthcare service industry is one of the fastest growing industries. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ( [BLS], 2020) reported the home health …

https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2020/09/29/hhcws/

Category:  Health Show Health

No Place Like Home: Advancing the Safety of Care in the Home

(3 days ago) WEBWith support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, IHI conducted this project to better understand the scope of patient safety issues in the home setting and identify strategies and best practices for improvement. Following the completion of a landscape analysis, IHI convened a multidisciplinary expert panel to consider the challenges and

https://www.ihi.org/resources/publications/no-place-home-advancing-safety-care-home

Category:  Health Show Health

Occupational Hazards in Home Healthcare - Centers for …

(7 days ago) WEBHome healthcare workers, while contributing greatly to the well-being of others, face unique risks on the job to their own personal safety and health. During 2007 alone, …

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2010-125/pdfs/2010-125.pdf

Category:  Health Show Health

Building a Safety Blueprint for Home Health Agencies

(6 days ago) WEBOne of the most direct results of inadequate safety measures is a high turnover rate, which is rising for most health care agencies. In 2022, the turnover rate …

https://www.homecaremag.com/home-health/building-safety-blueprint-home-health-agencies

Category:  Health Show Health

Home Health Quality Measures CMS

(7 days ago) WEBThe Home Health Process Measures include the following: Timely Initiation of Care. Percent of Patients with an Admission and Discharge Functional Assessment and a Care Plan that Addresses Function. Drug Education on All Medications Provided to Patient/Caregiver during All Episodes of Care.

https://www.cms.gov/medicare/quality/home-health/home-health-quality-measures

Category:  Health Show Health

Challenges for Home Health Care Providers: A Needs Assessment

(3 days ago) WEBHome health care has become an attractive alternative to hospital-based health care for a number of reasons. It may be more economically viable as the home setting may be …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6550463/

Category:  Health Show Health

Home Care: 2024 National Patient Safety Goals - The Joint Commission

(2 days ago) WEBNational Patient Safety Goals. Ambulatory Health Care: 2024 National Patient Safety Goals; Assisted Living Community: 2024 National Patient Safety Goals; Behavioral Health Care and Human Services: 2024 National Patient Safety Goals; Critical Access Hospital: 2024 National Patient Safety Goals; Home Care: 2024 National Patient …

https://www.jointcommission.org/standards/national-patient-safety-goals/home-care-national-patient-safety-goals/

Category:  Health Show Health

Safety Tips for Home Healthcare Workers - Monster.com

(1 days ago) WEBHome health workers face an array of safety risks -- including overexertion, falls, car accidents and hostile pets -- that make their jobs more treacherous than those of their …

https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/safety-tips-for-home-health-workers

Category:  Health Show Health

Filter Type: