Homecare Update
(From the November 2024 Issue of MedStat)
Celebrating Home Care, Hospice and Palliative Care Month
Homecare and Hospice is celebrating growth and best outcomes during the month of November. The Fall Quality Improvement (QI) Report highlights the home medical equipment (HME) QI study and enhanced performance delivery. Additionally, Homecare’s clinical staff worked with a multidisciplinary team to implement QI initiatives aimed at reducing incidence of tracheitis, beginning in 2016. This resulted in a 70% improvement in tracheitis rates, which has decreased and remained stable through the second quarter of 2024.
Homecare’s services continue to serve more patients in more counties throughout Ohio. HME services are available in all 88 counties, except for phototherapy. Territory expansion in 2024 and 2025 includes:
Skilled Therapies
- 2024: Fairfield County
- 2025: Licking County
Intermittent Skilled Nursing
- 2024: Knox, Muskingum
- 2025: Perry, Hocking
Skilled therapies and intermittent skilled nursing are also now available in the Toledo area (Wood, Lucas and Hancock counties).
Homecare’s Hospice and Palliative Care team continues to recognize the month with NovemBeard activities. Learn more and join in the fun by participating in the events listed on the NovemBeard webpage.
Click here for the most current service area map and information, or email Carolyn Figi.