In honor of Healthy Aging Month, consider taking HCCI’s online course Patient Assessment in Home-Based Primary Care, which lets you follow a provider’s simulated house call with an 81-year-old patient and his caregiver. Whether you are brand new to house calls, or you simply want to compare your own patient assessment practices with our expert’s, you will find this self-paced activity useful.

Sign up for this 90-minute, on-demand course to earn up to 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and learn how to do the following:

• Communicate effectively with the patient and/or caregiver regarding diagnoses, recommended treatments, patient preferences, and care goals.
• Describe some house call best practices, including steps before, during, and after each home visit.
• Recognize caregivers experiencing burnout and provide coping strategies and resources.
• Identify risks in the patient's environment, nutrition, medication, mobility, and decision-making capacity.

Upcoming HCCIntelligence™ Free Webinar 

Objectives:

• Describe how to use branding and communication to establish your practice as an employer of choice.
• Identify tools and resources that attract the right talent for your practice.
• Discuss the importance of documenting and implementing an effective onboarding process.

Presenters:

• Dana Crosby, Senior Director, Engagement and Practice Development, Home Centered Care Institute
• Paul Chiang, MD, Senior Medical and Practice Advisor, Home Centered Care Institute, Medical Director, Northwestern Medicine HomeCare Physicians 

HCCI’s Home Visits E/M Guide Resource helps home-based providers review Evaluation and Management (E/M) documentation and coding guidelines on the criteria needed to support billing for different service levels for home visits.

“This resource will assist with maximizing payment, decrease administrative burden, and allow for more focus to be placed on delivering valuable care to patients,” said Dana Crosby, HCCI’s Senior Director, Engagement and Practice Development.

Find more free home-based primary care resources here.

HCCIntelligence™ is funded in part by a grant from The John A. Hartford Foundation.

Help Make More House Calls Possible

HCCI relies on the support of individuals, corporations, and foundations to sustain our programs. Would you like to join our generous partners below in helping us ensure those in need of house calls get them? If so, please click here to make an individual donation. For organization-level opportunities, please contact James Warda, Vice President of External Affairs and Business Development.