Industry Resources
Home Health Final Rule
NAHC's Initial Summary
VNAA Summary of Home Health Payment Rule
Deficit Reduction
AARP Home Health Co Pay
AARP Letter to Super Committee
VNAA Letter to Joint Select Committee
Various Deficit Proposals-Impact on Home Health and Hospice
Missouri Assistive Technology offers programs that can help individuals with disabilities in Missouri, get assistive devices to remain in their home. www.at.mo.gov
Programs:
Show me Loans: Low interest loan to finance things such as hearing aids or home modifications.
TAP for Telephone: (TAP-T) provides access to basic voice telephone calling with adaptive phone equipment
TAP for Internet: (TAP-I) provides residents that cannot use traditional computer equipment, the adaptive items necessary for access to the internet/e-mail.
Care Improvement Plus (CIP) Special Needs Plan
2009 Quick Reference Guide
Patient Eligibility Requirements
One-stop shopping for OASIS-C assessment tools is here!
MAHC has assembled assessment and intervention tools vital to your clinical assessment. While most tools are available at no cost, please respect applicable guidelines or restrictions where noted*.
Depression Screening Tools...
Beck-Pearson Depression Inventory:
http://pearsonassess.com/HAIWEB/Cultures/en-us/Productdetail.htm?Pid=015-8018-370&Mode=summary
*There is a cost for the manual and forms
Patient Health Questionnaire: http://www.phqscreeners.com
Geriatric Depression Scale: Geriatric Depression ScaleTool
Wound Care Tools...
Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Sore Risk
Rules for using Braden Scale
Johnston Pressure Ulcer Intervention Tool
Pain Assessment Tools...
Pain Rating Scale Pocket Card
Fall Risk Assessment Screening Tools...
Benchmarking Fall Reduction
CHF Patient Self-Management Tool...
CHF Failure Zones: Important to print in color!
If you use a tool that is available in the public domain, please share it with us so that we might add it to this resource library.
