News Release

Mercy Homecare & Hospice Shares Expertise

Mercy Homecare & Hospice in Clinton is helping medical professionals assess breathing difficulties among Medicare patients. The innovative methods created by Mercy Homecare & Hospice are being shared with home health agencies throughout Iowa and North Dakota.

“We are happy to share the tools we created,” Julie Kemp of Mercy Homecare & Hospice said. “By sharing and networking with other home health agencies, we all can learn ways to improve care for our patients.”

Upon reviewing the tools produced by Mercy Homecare & Hospice, the North Dakota Health Care Review asked representatives of Mercy Homecare & Hospice to share their expertise with home health agencies throughout North Dakota.

In cooperation with the Iowa Foundation for Medical Care, Mercy Homecare & Hospice has also shared these tools with Iowa’s home health agencies.

Home health care is care provided to people who have a medical need for skilled care. By providing quality services, home health agencies make it possible for patients to receive health and personal care in their own home.

Mercy Homecare & Hospice is a participant in the Home Health Quality Initiative (HHQI), a federal program to improve the quality of care for Medicare patients using home health care services.

The HHQI was launched in November by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a federal agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Information on Medicare certified home health agencies is available at the Home Health Compare section of Medicare’s consumer Web site, www.medicare.gov or by calling 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227). The web site and toll free telephone number will give consumers information about individual home health agencies in Iowa and across the nation.

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