Hansun Ho

Raising the standard of home health.
Education × Purpose × Growth.

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Our 5-year goal: help 10,000 healthcare clinicians build six-figure careers.

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@CaregiveWarrior Clinic hallways flatter everybody, and the balance trouble usually surfaces the moment someone is back in their own space reaching for a light switch. Hearing PT credited by someone who actually went through the surgery carries further than any stat.

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@365CareTips Hard to overstate how much easier the home side of this gets once a diagnosis is actually on the chart, since caregiver training and safety changes largely hinge on it. The fear makes sense, but waiting usually means setting all of that up in the middle of a crisis instead.

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@JOSPT A new rollator can quietly turn into hours of weight bearing through an extended wrist, and that carpal tunnel aggravator tends to get missed once someone is discharged home. Condensed guideline summaries are what get opened between visits when there is no time for the full text.

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@DailyCaring On the home health side that's the non-coverage notice, which lands at the end of a certification period and reads like a final decision rather than the opening of a fast-track appeal. Plenty of families never file because nothing in that letter suggests filing is an option.

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You are not a grief counselor. You do not need to process their grief with them.
But you do need to recognize when grief is affecting their participation in therapy, their motivation, their safety, and their overall wellbeing.

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@Info4Practice Referral habits matter as much here as the payment side, since home health still gets pictured as strictly postacute and rarely comes up for a chronic or cognitively impaired patient. The MA visit gap is one clinicians feel long before it shows up in a brief.

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Your actions are a product of your thoughts.
Make sure you have deep, positive, productive thoughts.

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@AdamNMayer @joepohlen On the home health side, we usually get into the house after the fall, when the fix is a rushed grab bar wherever the stud happens to be. Building curbless showers and wider doorways in while someone is still independent is a completely different outcome.

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@BuckeyeHomehc Practically speaking, the split shows up fastest around the bathroom: PT gets someone there safely, OT handles what happens once they're in there. Families usually stop asking why both got ordered after that first week at home.

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WHO ACTUALLY DOES THE RECERT
Often the nurse on case does the recert at the 60-day mark, and as the PT you just do a reassessment the same week. You only complete the recert yourself when there is no nurse on the case.

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@Dansgaming It's the few weeks right after discharge where people quietly drift, so deciding now to keep the home program going is what protects the mobility you just earned. In home health that carryover is pretty much the whole job.

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@Dansgaming Keep it up Dan! You are doing fucking great! All the respect!

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@DrAndyGalpin @drjohnrusin Same pattern shows up in recliners, not just desks. Homebound patients lose that thoracic extension and glute drive first, and sit-to-stand goes right after it, so step 7 is the one that really carries over on our side.

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Persistence.
Persistence.
Persistence.

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@ACLgov What a hazard checklist misses is the 2am trip from bed to bathroom, which is where the poor lighting and the missing railing actually catch people. Doing that walk at night with the lights they really turn on turns up more than a daytime sweep does.

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@ASHAWeb Speech is the hardest discipline to staff on rural home health cases, so head and neck cancer patients out there often wait on swallow management. The mentoring piece matters for the same reason: a solo rural clinician has nobody down the hall to sanity check a hard call.

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THE ABSENT FAMILY: CLINICAL IMPACT
No safety net between visits means your clinical approach has to compensate.
Plan conservatively. Over-analyze the home environment. Flag isolation as a risk factor.

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@NA4Caregiving By the time we get out for a home health eval, the spouse or adult kid has usually been doing transfers and meds for a week off a discharge packet and a phone number. Training them up is half of what moves the recovery, and none of it gets counted anywhere.

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@phystherapycom Between visits is where post-stroke recovery actually gets decided, so the sedentary time drop reads as the bigger finding here than the step gain. Pairing the watch with real coaching is probably what made it stick, since a device on its own tends to fade once the novelty does.