Home Health & Hospice Week

You can obtain more free help with your quality improvement efforts from the Home Health Quality Initiative, which kicked off its newest phase last month.For five years, the HHQI campaign run by CMS contractors WVMI & Quality Insights has offered free tools, education, data, and other resources on QI to home health agencies. The Best Practice Intervention Packages on deck for coming months address topics ranging from falls prevention to medication management.Tip: Many of the best practices can be used in any setting, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice points out. You can put your logo on the non-copyrighted material and use them as tools for your referral sources.More information and access to the tools, educational materials, and more are on the newly revamped website at www.homehealthquality.org. Access is free but requires registration. The campaign currently has nearly 9,000 participants from more than 5,000 agencies, the website says.