Book Description

Ensure Compliance Through Up-to-date Policies. Wherever you turn in today's homecare environment, someone is evaluating your agency's compliance through your policies. Those policies must show your compliance with certification requirements. For many agencies, the pressures of achieving and maintaining accreditation compound this challenge. Now you can ensure that your agency has all the important policies, properly written, to meet compliance and accreditation requirements. Using the guidance that comes with this manual and its companion CD, you can easily customize these policies to meet your needs. Highlighted text shows you guidelines that may need to be modified. The resulting policy manual will be tailored to meet your agency's exact requirements. Whether you are starting a new agency or remaking your current policies, Beacon Health's Policy Manual will make it far easier and more cost-effective than any other approach. This manual includes: Policies that cover administration, operations, service delivery, and personnel issues References to wording in the Conditions of Participation Guidance to help you meet state laws and address specific situations within your agency A G-tag index for quick identification of policies supporting compliance with the Conditions of Participation The Homecare Policy Manual for Certification and Accreditation also comes with: Guidelines to help you produce your custom manual A PC-compatible CD-ROM formatted in Microsoft ® Word ® that provides your agency with unlimited flexibility to add or change procedures, practices, and other supportive materials applicable to your agency.