Handbook of home health care administration / edited by Marilyn D. Harris, MSN, RN, CNAA, BC, FAAN, Former Executive Director, Abington Memorial Hospital Home Care, Hatboro, Pennsylvania.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Home health administration --
Status of home health care: 2015 and beyond / Tina M. Marrelli --
Home health care: a historical perspective and overview / Janna L. Dieckmann --
Standards for home health agencies --
Medicare conditions of participation / Peggie Reid Webb --
The Joint Commission's home care accreditation program / Maryanne L. Popovich --
CHAP accreditation: Standards of Excellence for Home and Community-based Healthcare Organizations / Barbara Muntz --
ACHC: accreditation for home care and alternate site healthcare services / José Domingos --
Certificate of need and licensure / E. Michael Flanagan --
Credentialing: organizational and personnel options for home care / Ann H. Cary --
The relationship of the home health agency to the state trade association / Joie Glenn --
The National Association for Home Care and Hospice / Val J. Halamandaris --
Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA): nonprofit providers leading transformation in communities across the country / Margaret Terry ; Eileen Grande --
Clinical issues --
Self-care systems in home healthcare nursing / Joan Reynolds Yuan ; Pamela Boyd --
Computerized clinical documentation / Nancy Radosevich ; Kristin J. Erickson ; Diane Thorson --
Home telehealth: improving care and decreasing costs / Ann K. McCaughan --
Implementing a competency system in home care / Diana L. Kornetti --
The roles of and competency requirements for paraprofessionals / John I. Buck --
Culturally and linguistically appropriate services / Mary Curry Narayan --
Clinical Care Classification (CCC) System: an overview / Virginia K. Saba --
The Omaha System: improving the quality of practice and decision support / Karen S. Martin ; Penny D. Kessler --
Disaster preparedness / Barbara B. Citarella --
The evolving role of case management / Nancy E. Allen ; Holly Penkacik --
Specialized infusion and ancillary home care services / Michael Cubbin --
Pediatric home care / Jill Peacock ; Leanna Kinney --
Maternal and child health / Regina Diamond --
Quality assessment and performance improvement --
Performance improvement / Joan Reynolds Yuan ; Pamela Boyd --
Program evaluation / Jeanie Stoker --
Effectiveness of a clinical feedback approach to improving patient outcomes / Kathryn S. Crisler --
Expanding your performance improvement program: using process and other measures to improve care / Angela A. Richard --
Implementing outcome-based quality improvement in the home health agency / Linda H. Krulish ; Deborah L. Chisholm --
Implementing home health standards in clinical practice / Lisa A. Gorski --
Benchmarking and home health care / Christine L. Lang --
Management issues --
Management information systems and information technology / Suzanne B. Sblendorio --
Administrative policy and procedure manual / Marilyn D. Harris --
Strategies to attract and retain quality staff: flextime and clinical ladders / Sharon D. Martin ; Kimberly Clement --
Analysis and management of home health nursing, caseloads and workloads: implications for productivity / Judith Lloyd Storfjell ; Carol Easley Allen ; Cheryl E. Easley --
Human resource management / Christine Tierney --
Transitioning nurses to home care / Paula Milone-Nuzzo ; M. Ellen Hollars --
Staff development in a home health agency / Joan Reynolds Yuan ; Joann K. Erb --
Community-based long-term care: a collaborative approach / Pearl B. Graub ; Emily Amerman --
Beyond Medicare-certified home health services / J. Mark Baiada --
Financial issues --
Understanding the exposures of home health care: an insurance primer / William W. Fonner --
Budgeting for home health agencies / Lynne Hebert ; Michael Morel --
Reimbursement / Annette D. Lee --
ADRs, CERTs, RACs, SMRCs, ZPICs, and other external audits / Patricia Hanks --
How to read, interpret, and understand financial statements / D. Scott Detar --
Legal/ethical/political issues --
Legal issues of concern to home care providers / Ann P. Sherwin --
Understanding the basics of home health compliance / Myla R. Reizen ; Asha M. Natarajan --
The HIPAA standards for privacy of individually indentifiable health information / Todd Brower --
Bioethics: a practical guide for home care / Peggy L. Taylor --
Health care is politics: get involved / Barbara Kovalcin Piskor --
Strategic planning and marketing issues --
Strategic planing / Marilyn D. Harris --
Marketing strategies / Karen L. Carney --
Other types of relationships --
Grantsmanship in home health care: seeking foundation support / Jennifer W. Campbell ; Wendy Yallowitz ; Jane Isaacs Lowe --
Home care volunteeer program / Carol-Rae Green Sodano --
The manager as published author: tips on writing for publication / Suzanne P. Smith --
Student placements in home healthcare agencies: boost or barrier to quality patient care? / Pamela A. Andresen --
The role of the physician in home care / Joseph F. Andrews, Jr. ; Susan Flannigan ; Myra K. Skluth ; James Prota --
Research in home health agencies / Susan Tullai-McGuinness --
Integrating palliative care into home care practice / Kathleen M. Perry ; Carol Ann Parente --
Hospice care: pioneering the ultimate love connection about living, not dying / R. J. Hurzeler ; Ronny Knight ; Wen-Jen Hwu ; Sylvia van Heerden ; Ian Bjorkman ; Warren Godbolt ; Austin Phiri --
Safe Harbor: a bereavement program for children, teens and families / Elissa DellaMonica ; Deborah Teasdale --
Adult day services: home care partners / Katherine Fitzgerald --
Collaborative efforts in the community: faith community nurses as partners in healing / Marilyn D. Harris ; Rachelle Longcoy --
Strategies for success --
Meeting the present challenges and continuing to thrive in the future: tips on how to be successful as an administrator in home health and hospice care / Marilyn D. Harris.