Bureau Talk 2008

October 2008

• Staff Changes
• Safe at Home Program
• Show Me Home Care and Rehab
• Nurse Aide Teleconference
• Impact of Nursing Shortage on Hospice
• Mission Priority Statement for FY '09
• Annual Statistical Reports
• OASIS Automation Update
• Solicitation Practices
• Hospice Regulations
• Disaster Planning
• News from the MOO Arena

Attachment 1 – Safe at Home Brochure
Attachment 2 – Safe at Home Poster
Attachment 3 – Show Me Home Care and Rehab
Attachment 4 – OASIS Automation Update
Attachment 5 – Hospice Regulations

July 2008

• New Face/New Name
• Old Face/New Title
• Sharp Containers
• Stamped Signatures
• Supervision of the Social Worker by the MSW for Home Health
• New Hospice Conditions of Participation
• Thank You! Thank You!
• Plan of Correction
• News from the MOO Arena

April 2008

• Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs)
• Most Frequently Cited Deficiencies
• Volunteers
• Stay in the Loop
• Show Me Home Care and Rehab
• Discharge for Cause
• LPN Supervision
• Haldol for SNF Hospice Patients
• OASIS News
• Bereavement
• Standing Orders
• 2008 Annual Reports

Attachment 1 – State Hospice Regulations
Attachment 2 – Additional Regulatory Statements
Attachment 3 – OASIS News
 

January 2008

• New Faces
• Psychiatric Nursing
• Family Care Safety Registry
• Criminal Background Checks
• Annual Statistical Reports
• Stamped Physician Signatures
• Show Me Home Care and Rehab
• News from the MOO Arena