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Home Health Agencies

Business that provides health care an personal service at home

Providers

People or organization that provide health care

Home Health Aide (HHA)

People who provide care at a client's home performing assigned tasks. HHA assists with ADLs

ADLs

Activities of daily living (bathing, toileting, cooking, oral care)

Payers

People or organizations that provide health care HMO & PPO (managed care)

Health Care Settings

Places where people go to receive health care hospital, acute & long term care

Medicaid

For people who are low income and need medical assistance (access) 19% of all home care

Diagnosis

Doctors determination of illness(breast cancer) by primary or specialist

Diagnosis related group DRG

Specify treatment cost that medicaid or medicare will pay for diagnosis flat fee for illness treatment

Scope Of Practice SOP

The task as HHA is allowed to do and how to do them correctly

Outside Scope Of Practice

Tasks a HHA should not perform under for any reason (tube placement, wound care(deep,open wound care) sterile technique nurses use when doing invasive tasks

Range Of Motion ROM

Exercise that put a joint through full motion depending on ability

Care Plan

Used to help achieve the goals of care must be followed carefully

Standard Precautions

Methods used to prevent infection(gloves,handwashing)

Medicare

For people 65 an older, permanent kidney damaged, certain disabilities 43 million people 37%of all home care

Vital Signs VS

Temperature, pulse, breath, blood pressure and pain level monitor functions of vital organs

In-service

12 hour of training every year (hha cannot work w/o In-service training)

Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Federal government agency makes rules to protect HHA from hazards on job (TB, bloodborne illness, standard precautions)

Liability

Someone that can be held responsible for harming a client (a fall) not following care plan

Policy

Action that should be taken everytime a situation occurs care plan must be followed everytime you visit a client

Procedure

Way of doing something everytime(reporting info about your client)

Professional

Having to do with work on a job HHA

Professionalism

How you behave when you are on your job dress code ,being on time

Personal

Your life outside your job family, home life

Hygiene

Cleaning ones body ,washing body with soap & water ,brushing ones teeth, washing hands

Ethics

Knowledge of right and wrong always try to do what's right

Laws

Help people live together with water and safety

Clients Rights

How clients must be treated, clients bill of rights

HIPAA

Government rules to protect health information health insurance portability accountability act