Project Coordinator serves as journal’s guest editor
Quality Insights of Pennsylvania Project Coordinator Donna Anderson served as the guest editor of the February issue of the peer-reviewed journal Home Health Care Management & Practice.
Anderson worked with editor Barbara Stover Gingerish to prepare a series of articles to go along with the Home Health Quality Improvement Campaign, a yearlong national campaign to help home health agencies improve care.
Quality Insights of Pennsylvania orchestrated the home health campaign as part of a contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to serve as the Pittsburgh-based Home Health Quality Improvement Support Center. Quality Insights began serving as the HHQI support center in January 2007, the same month Gingerich invited Anderson to edit the issue.
Anderson and the other home health experts, including Communications Specialist Bethany Knowles, contributed 13 articles to the edition entitled Home Health: Validation and the Future of Best Practice Interventions.
The articles explained the 12 best practice interventions to reduce avoidable acute care hospitalizations, the central focus of the HHQI campaign. The best practices included Hospitalization Risk Assessment, Emergency Care Planning, Medication Management, Phone Monitoring and Frontloading Visits, Teletriage, Telemonitoring, Immunizations, Physician Relationships, Fall Prevention, Patient Self-Management, Disease Management, and Transitional Care Coordination.
As the issue editor, Anderson contributed a piece about how the collaboration came about, and she was the subject of the “Professional Profiles” feature. Anderson also wrote one of the articles.
“It was an honor to have been published in such a well respected journal,” Anderson said. “This has opened doors for other opportunities to publish work that came about as part of the national campaign.”
Sage Publications of Thousand Oaks, Calif., publishes the journal six times a year. The home health campaign began March 2007 and concluded in February.