{"id":7577,"date":"2022-04-01T14:58:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T20:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.amityhealthcaregroup.com\/?p=7577"},"modified":"2025-07-05T10:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T16:10:11","slug":"issue-date-april-1st-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.amityhealthcaregroup.com\/?p=7577","title":{"rendered":"Issue date: April 1st, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hello, Everyone!<\/p>\n

Here are some home health related updates for this week:<\/p>\n

AMITY<\/span>\u2019S NEWS<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

Webinar: Burnout and Compassion Fatigue: New Perspectives for Care Providers, Teams, and Healthcare Organizations<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Join Lourdes Wiley, Home Health Consultant and Clinical Educator at Amity<\/span> Healthcare Group<\/u>, and ACHCU<\/u> for a free<\/strong><\/em><\/u> webinar Burnout and Compassion Fatigue: New Perspectives for Care Providers, Teams, and Healthcare Organizations<\/strong><\/em><\/u> presented at 12 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 12, 2022.<\/p>\n

Burnout and compassion fatigue affect the entire organization as well as the patients served. This presentation is intended to give clinicians and non-clinicians alike a new perspective on how to care for themselves, each other, and take ownership of creating a welcoming and healthier workplace for all.<\/p>\n

Learning objective:<\/u><\/p>\n

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  1. Understand definitions and implications of burnout and compassion fatigue on direct care providers in the healthcare industry.<\/li>\n
  2. Identify the role of the team and organization in cultivating a culture that helps create a \u201cshield\u201d against burnout and compassion fatigue.<\/li>\n
  3. Brainstorm ways to increase care satisfaction within yourself, your team, and your organization to improve staff retention and quality of care for the patients you serve.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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    iQIES Alert: Home Health Agencies Urged to Establish Access to iQIES | SDAHOImportant iQIES Update for Home Health Providers<\/strong><\/div>\n
    There were multiple communications from CMS in the past two weeks as related to an issue identified in the iQIES system that may have affected Services Provided values that are displayed on the Home Health Agency Provider Preview reports that were distributed in iQIES on 02\/23\/2022<\/div>\n
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    The providers were asked to review the Services Provided information on the HHA Provider Preview Reports for the April 2022 refresh and contact their OASIS Education Coordinator (OEC) or OASIS Automation Coordinator with reports of any inaccuracies.<\/p>\n

    Meanwhile, on Monday, March 28, 2022, CMS stated that to allow time to complete the identified discrepancies, CMS have decided for the April 2022 refresh, to publish the same Services Provided data for each Home Health Agency that was posted on Care Compare for the January 2022 refresh as the way to publish the most accurate Services Provided data at this time.<\/p>\n

    Furthermore, CMS provided recommendations for the providers experiencing issues locating agency\u2019s HHA Provider Preview Report as follows:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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    New Users<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Only active users with login credentials to iQIES as of the distribution date of the HHA Provider Preview reports for the April 2022 refresh will have the report in their HHA Provider Preview Report folder.<\/p>\n

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    1. If you are a new user of iQIES and received your iQIES login credentials after the February 23, 2022, distribution of the HHA Provider Preview reports, please contact the iQIES Help Desk for assistance (see iQIES Help Desk contact information below).<\/li>\n
    2. Inform the help desk staff that you are a new user of iQIES since the HHA Provider Preview reports for the April 2022 refresh were made available. The iQIES help desk team will gather the necessary information from you including such things as your agency\u2019s CMS Certification Number (CCN) and will then make the report for your agency available to you in the HHA Provider Preview Reports folder in iQIES.<\/li>\n
    3. Follow the steps below to locate your agency\u2019s report in the HHA Provider Preview Report folder.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Existing Users<\/strong><\/p>\n

      If you were an active user prior to the February 23, 2022, distribution of the HHA Provider Preview Reports but you cannot locate your report, please follow the steps below:<\/p>\n

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      1. Log into iQIES at https:\/\/iqies.cms.gov<\/a><\/li>\n
      2. Select the My Reports option from the Reports menu<\/li>\n
      3. From the My Reports page, locate the HHA Provider Preview Reports folder.<\/li>\n
      4. NOTE:<\/strong> The folders and reports on the My Reports page are listed in alphabetic order so users may need to utilize the page forward functionality at the bottom of the webpage to advance to the page where the folder is located. Alternatively, users may change the default number of rows that display on the webpage from 10 to a larger number to view the larger list of items.<\/li>\n
      5. Select the HHA Provider Preview Reports<\/u> link to open the folder.<\/li>\n
      6. To locate the latest HHA Provider Preview report, select the down arrow adjacent to the Created Date label at the top of the table. This will order the reports in the folder from newest to oldest.<\/li>\n
      7. Select the report file with the following label: Preview of Home Health Agency Quality Measure Scores To Be Posted on Care Compare (April 2022)_Updated [provider\u2019s CCN will display after the word Updated]<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n
      8. Once the report is open, users will notice the Services Provided information displayed beneath their agency\u2019s demographic information at the top of the report.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        With additional questions, please contact the iQIES Help Desk by phone at (800) 339-9313 or by email at iQIES@cms.hhs.gov<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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        Home health agencies have experienced several issues with the Notice of Admission (NOA) submissions since the NOA was implemented in January 2022. Although most of the errors have been resolved, the issue with reason code U537F<\/strong> (i.e., the Common Working File (CWF) does not correctly recognize a discharge- \u201cpatient status other than 30 on the last HH period\u201d)<\/em> assigning incorrectly on some NOAs still continues to impact home health agencies.
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        CMS has recently indicated that the system fix to correct this issue is being created, and NAHC has learned from CMS that it anticipates April 4<\/strong> as the implementation date of the fix.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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        OSHA Seeks Additional Comments on the COVID-19 Healthcare ETS<\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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        The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a Federal Register notice<\/a> to allow for additional public comments (comments are due April 22, 2022)<\/strong> and scheduled an informal public hearing related to the development of a final standard to protect healthcare and healthcare support service workers from workplace exposure to the COVID-19 virus.
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        As you may remember, on June 21, 2021, OSHA issued an emergency temporary standard (ETS) with the goal to protect workers in healthcare settings from occupational exposure to COVID-19. Since then, all but the recordkeeping and reporting requirements, expired on December 27, 2021.<\/p>\n

        At this time, OSHA is requesting stakeholder comments on changes to the ETS. As per the Federal Register issued on March 23, 2022, potential changes from the ETS include:<\/p>\n