Home Health Care Management & Practice is a comprehensive resource for clinicians, case managers, administrators, and educators providing health care in the home and other community-based venues, such as hospices, adult day centers, correctional facilities, wellness centers, durable medical equipment suppliers, primary care outreach clinics and other settings. It is a valuable resource for faculty and collegiate nursing programs.
The journal addresses a broad range of issues, from individual patient care and case management to staff guidance, development and supervision to licensing to accreditation and regulations impacting the administration of home and community based care agencies. Articles foster expert clinical practice and describe successful management solutions implemented by organizations relative to regulations and licensing, corporate compliance, strategic management, and operations. These articles often include checklists, guidelines, and other practical self-check tools that help clinical personnel serve their patients’ physiologic, psychological, and sociological needs more effectively. Tools designed for organizational management and operations are also provided for ease in implementation within the provider organization.
Regular columnists contribute to the journal on a diverse range of focus, including research, legal issues, psychosocial perspectives, accreditation and licensing, compliance, management and cultural diversity. In addition the journal regularly features a resource review of recently released publications focused on the community based care setting. Specific topics covered in recent issues include: occupational therapy’s role in home care, pay for performance and quality, policy approaches to disease management, productivity, long distance caregiving, workplace accommodations and ethical issues and concerns.
Several issues of Home Health Care Management & Practice each year focus on a single topical theme; recent issue topical themes include:
· Clinical and Management Innovations
· Management and Business Aspects of Community Health Private Duty Care and Services
· Disease State Management
· International and Cross-Cultural Dimensions of Practice, Education, and Research
· Global Clinical Practice and Specialties
· The Many Disciplines of Home Health Care
· Challenges and Changes in Home Care Delivery
· Technology and Rural Health Care
· End of Life Care Across the Continuum
· Pain Management and Complementary Modalities
Home Health Care Management & Practice carries a wide array of advertising, including health care equipment/instrumentation, health-related furnishings, health service and patient care consulting services, continuing education offerings, and human resource recruitment.
