Delirium, Dementia, or Depression? Recognizing the Difference in Home Health
Why the Three D's Look Alike — and How Therapists and Social Workers Can Spot the Change That Needs Urgent Attention A confused older patient is one of the most…
Clinician Safety and Ergonomics in Home Health Practice: Protecting the Therapists Who Protect Our Patients
Why a Therapist-Owned Company Takes Clinician Musculoskeletal Health and Occupational Safety as Seriously as Patient Outcomes Home health practice imposes physical demands on clinicians that differ substantially from institutional practice…
Malnutrition Screening and Nutritional Rehabilitation in Home Health: A Clinical Priority Every Discipline Should Own
How OT, SLP, and MSW Identify and Address the Malnutrition That Undermines Wound Healing, Immune Function, and Functional Recovery Malnutrition affects a substantial proportion of the home health patient population…
Hip Fracture in Frail Older Adults: A Distinct Home Health Population Requiring Its Own Clinical Approach
Why Post-Fracture Home Health Differs From Elective Joint Replacement — and What OT, PT, and MSW Must Address in This High-Mortality-Risk Population Hip fracture in frail older adults is a…
The Home Health Career Journey: From New Graduate to Clinical Expert. What Growth Looks Like in This Field
A Reflection From a Therapist-Owned Company on the Arc of Professional Development That Home Health Practice Uniquely Offers Seventy posts into this series, it is worth pausing to reflect on…
Therapy Billing Compliance in Home Health: What Every Clinician Should Understand About the Codes Behind Their Visit Notes
A Practical Guide to the CPT Codes, Time-Based Billing Rules, and Documentation-Billing Alignment That Home Health Therapists Need to Understand Home health therapy billing operates under rules that most therapy…
Polypharmacy in Home Health: The OT, PT, and MSW Role in Identifying and Addressing Medication Risk
How Therapy Disciplines Contribute to Medication Safety in a Population Where the Average Patient Takes Multiple Prescriptions Daily Polypharmacy — commonly defined as the concurrent use of five or more…
Low Vision and Blindness in Home Health: The OT Contribution to a Frequently Overlooked Functional Domain
How Occupational Therapy Addresses Vision Loss as a Distinct Functional Impairment Requiring Its Own Assessment and Intervention Approach Vision impairment is one of the most functionally consequential and most clinically…
The Community of Home Health Practice: On the Shared Professional Identity That Connects Everyone Who Does This Work
A Reflection on What OT, PT, SLP, MSW, and Home Health Agency Leaders Share Across the Disciplines and Roles That Home Health Requires Home health practice creates a professional identity…
Language Access and Immigrant Communities in Home Health: Serving Houston’s Diverse Patient Population Equitably
How Home Health Agencies Can Build the Language Access Infrastructure and Cultural Competency That Houston's Diversity Requires Houston is one of the most linguistically diverse cities in the United States…