Volunteer at CSM 2025 in Houston!
It is almost that time of year again! The annual APTA Combined Sections Meeting is back in Houston, TX, February 13-15, 2025.
In an effort to get to know more of our members and create more opportunities for our members to get involved with the Academy, we are asking for volunteers to help run the APTA Home Health Academy booth in the exhibit hall at CSM.
For members that will be attending CSM 2025 and are interested in volunteering at the booth for a minimum of TWO HOURS, we are offering a FREE printed copy of the Home Health Toolbox II Tests & Measures For Use in the Home OR the brand new Fourth Edition Providing Physical Therapy in the Home OR a $50 credit towards a course in the Learning Center!
Please make sure that if you sign up to volunteer at the booth, you make sure to mark it in your calendar so you don't forget, and that you are able to stay at the booth for the whole time slot. At least one member of our board will also be at the booth at all times with our volunteers. Please click the button below to view available time slots and sign-up to volunteer!
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP
If you have questions about volunteering, please email us at [email protected]. We look forward to seeing you at CSM at booth #2131!
Thank you,
APTA Home Health Board & Staff |
From Immortality to Ugly People: 100-Year-Old Predictions About 2025
Akron Beacon Journal | By Mark J. Price
Nearly 100 years ago, a group of deep thinkers dared to imagine what life would be like in 2025. Some of their prophecies were completely off target, while others proved to be weirdly accurate. [Including:]
- The future looked ugly to Albert E. Wiggam, an American psychologist. According to his calculations, homely, dull people were having more children than beautiful, intelligent people. “If we keep progressing in the wrong direction, as we have been doing, American beauty is bound to decline and there won’t be a good-looking girl to be found 100 years from now,” he told an audience in Brooklyn, New York. Looking around the auditorium, he added: “However, this lack is not apparent yet, especially here in Brooklyn.”
- Thanks to science, people would live to be 150 years old... The advances of medicine and surgery will have been such that most of the ailments and limitations of old age will have been eliminated. Life will be prolonged at its maximum of efficiency until death comes like sunset, and is met without pain and without reluctance. There will be no death from disease, and almost any sort of injury will be curable.
- In a hundred years, there will not be numerous nations, but only three great masses of people — the United States of America, the United States of Europe and China.
- The earth will be under one government, and one language will be written and understood, or even spoken, all over the globe.
- People would use a pocket-sized apparatus for communications to see and hear each other without being in the same room.
- Horse-drawn vehicles are fast disappearing from our streets, but jackass-driven automobiles will still be with us 100 years from now.
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Thinking of our Members, Colleagues, Patients, Loved Ones, and First Responders Affected by the SoCal Fires
Coalition for Compassionate Care of California | By Moore Ballentine
The staff of CCCC are watching as the Palisades, Eaton, Hurst, and other fires ravage Southern California. Our hearts and thoughts are with all affected. Here are a few tangible ways you can help, even at this early stage.
Donate to:
As always, in the early stages of a disaster, cash donations are more helpful than supplies or efforts to volunteer. That said, Pasadena Humane is asking for both donations (give at pasadenahumane.org/wildfirerelief) and specific supplies to help shelter animals displaced by the fire: pet food and water bowls, extra large crates, and blankets. Drop off supplies at 361 S. Raymond Avenue, Pasadena.
For information and updates, here are some helpful links, courtesy of the California Department of Aging:
Editor's note: Thank you, Coalition for Compassionate Care of California for equipping so many with this crucial information! Readers of our newsletter, please distribute and encourage your networks to support these relief efforts. Ongoing, our newsletter will be posting ways you can specifically help hospice and palliative care in these tragically impacted service areas. Please email relevant stories with URL links to [email protected]. We send support to all persons affected! |
Home Health OASIS Submission Requirements for All Patients, HHQRP Resources
Alliance Daily | Jan. 9, 2025
Effective January 1, 2025, home health agencies could voluntarily begin submitting OASIS data for all patients regardless of payer. The collection and submission of the OASIS for all patients becomes mandatory July 1, 2025.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) removed the temporary suspension of the OASIS data collection on non-Medicare/non-Medicaid home health agency patients through the CY2023 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update final rule and updated the removal in the CY2025 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update final rule. With these changes, patients who have received home care services of more than one visit in a quality episode provided by all Medicare-certified home health agencies and Medicaid home health providers in states where those agencies are required to meet the Medicare Home Health Conditions of Participation, are eligible for OASIS data collection and submission.
There are no changes to patients excluded which are those under the age of 18, those receiving only maternity services, and those receiving only chore, housekeeping or personal care services. As stated above, there is a voluntary period prior to the mandatory implementation date of July 1, 2025.
There are many questions about the revised requirement which CMS has addressed in a Q&A document. CMS has also released a Fact Sheet and provided guidance on the provision of the OASIS privacy notice. Specifically, effective January 1, 2025 HHAs should only provide patients with the CMS Privacy Act Statement and Attachment A – Statement of Patient Privacy Rights. Attachment C – Notice About Privacy for Patients Who Don’t Have Medicare or Medicaid should not be provided to patients. These forms are available on the Home Health Agency Center webpage in the OASIS section. Both documents are available in English and Spanish.
In addition to these OASIS resources, CMS has also posted updated introductory courses to the Home Health Quality Reporting Program (HHQRP). This series of courses is helpful for those new to the HHQRP as well as those interested in a refresher. |
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