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S C Schulmerich

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Public policy and the crisis in home care.

When one part of the health care ecosystem is tampered with, the effects are felt in varying degrees throughout the provider community. It is amazing how quickly bad legislation, namely the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, and subsequent regulations can chaotically dismantle and damage what had once been a cost-effective and humane segment of the health care delivery system. Such is the story of home care--a community in crisis.

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When nature turns up the heat.

Heat-related illness can present as prickly heat, heat cramps, heat exhaustion, or heat stroke. Can you spot the different types and provide the appropriate care? Can you offer advice on how to prevent these disorders in the first place? This article will allow you to answer Yes.

Diagnosis, Differential↗

Public policy out of control. The home health care experience.

The home health care delivery system is facing challenges that threaten its survival as well as its very essence. Currently, the federal government provides the threat of disaster for home care patients, staff, and organizations. The dangers are palpable and very real. Although the immediate survival threat is fiscal, there are two other areas which have the potential to be equally devastating. The first is reduced, in some instances absent, patient access to care at home. The second is the flight of professional and paraprofessional personnel from home care.

Budgets↗

Implementing an integrated financial system.

Faced with four redundant date entry software systems and a staff that relied heavily on manual systems, agency administrators searched for a fully integrated automation system. The author describes the agency's success with and staff's acceptance of the chosen system.

Financial Management, Hospital↗