Correction: Webcast is today, July 8th.
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Obviously dovetailing with Today's HHS PlanFirst Webcast on Home Health Care issues, we have a new online report available on Pandemicflu.gov.
It is entitled Home Health Care During an Influenza Pandemic: Issues and Resources
Knebel A, Phillips SJ, eds. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Home Health Care During an Influenza Pandemic: Issues and Resources. �AHRQ Publication No. 08-0018. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; July 2008.
The Webcast airs live at 2pm EDT, today and may be heard here.
- Key topics:
- Assumptions that need to be considered when assigning a care-giving role to home care agencies during a pandemic
- Operational, ethical and legal challenges pandemic planners will face
- Strategies home health care agencies can employ to overcome these challenges
- Speakers
- Alexis Silver, Senior Director, Policy and Development, Home Care Association of New York State
- Geraldine A. Coyle, Deputy Chief Consultant, Administration and Logistics, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- James G. Hodge, Jr., Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Outline for the Webcast: HTML | PPT
- Resources
Previous Webcasts
A Webcast on preparing the workplace aired on June 4, 2008.
Webcasts, on the State planning and assessment process, aired on March 13, April 2 and April 30, 2008.
I've not had time to examine this new document, although at first glance it appears to have a lot of good information.
There is a section on the willingness of healthcare workers to report to work during a pandemic, and I am interested to see how they address those concerns.
I expect, over the next couple of days, I'll have more to say on this document.
