Home Health Care

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This paper discusses how home health care has been a controversial health care delivery system for many decades, changing dramatically throughout the years in accordance with nursing policy, federal and state guidelines and is usually driven by certification and accreditation by the Medicare system. This paper highlights the role of quality assessment and performance improvement measures in home health care through direct review of current literature and through mock interviews with a home health care professional and home health care agency.

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"According to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2.4 million individuals receive private home health care services from one of the 8,100 Medicare-certified agencies authorized to provide home health care in the United States ("Home health," 2006). Home health care agencies provide both health and personal care for patients in their own home, with the goal of helping patients to improve their self-care capabilities and health status ("Home health," 2003). In November 2001, Secretary Tommy Thompson of the US Department of Health and Human Services announced the Quality Initiative, which was rolled out in two phases in 2003 through the nation ("Home health," 2003). The initiative was part of the Bush administration's Medicare related assurance of quality health care for all people ("Home health," 2003; "HHS launches," 2003)."

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