Tracer methodology and the new Joint Commission home care and hospice survey process: part 1.

The Joint Commission complex organization survey process and its impact on hospital-based home care and hospice providers.

The October and November 2004 HHN Accreditation Strategies columns addressed the new Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (Joint Commission) home care and hospice survey process describing in detail components of each survey activity. This column builds on the foundation laid in the two columns and focuses on survey process nuances for complex organizations, specificall...

APPROVED: Certification Option for Home Care Organizations Providing Community-Based Palliative Care.

The Joint Commission recently announced its new Community-Based Palliative Care (CBPC) Certification option for accredited home care organizations. This specialty certification, which recognizes home health and hospice organizations that provide community-based palliative care to patients and their families at home, will be effective July 1, 2016. Using the results of a market research study of...

What's new in the 2004 Joint Commission Home Care and Hospice standards? Part 2.

Clarification: Eligibility for advanced certification for palliative care.

Care program evaluates hospital-based palliative care programs that deliver care to a defined patient population. Since the program’s launch on September 1, 2011, customers have identified a need for greater clarity in the palliative care certification eligibility criteria. As a result, The Joint Commission clarified the eligibility criteria to include a note regarding hospice patients as well ...

An overview of home health and hospice care patients: 1996 National Home and Hospice Care Survey.

OBJECTIVE This report presents numbers and percents of home health and hospice care agencies, their current patients, and their discharges. Agency characteristics include type of ownership, region, certification, location, and affiliation. Patient and discharge characteristics include age, sex, race, marital status admission diagnoses, and procedures. METHODS The data used for this report are...