Home Health Therapy: Using OASIS, Update Edition

Course overview

The purpose of this course is to provide home healthcare physical and occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists with the information they need to understand the significance and importance of effectively using the OASIS instrument in order to deliver comprehensive, compassionate, patient-focused, and cost-sensitive skilled services in the home environment. The home health therapist will be able to use the OASIS information provided in this course to create a basis for the plan of care, to measure the patient's progress in meeting the established home healthcare goals, and to meet the regulatory requirements for quality reporting and reimbursement. Completion of this course will provide the inexperienced home health therapist with knowledge needed to begin working with the OASIS tool as part of an orientation in delivering certified home health therapy and overall care. Experienced home health therapists will find opportunities to review, reinforce, revise, and refine or expand their working knowledge of OASIS requirements and to grow in understanding the professional implications of practicing in this complex and challenging healthcare setting. This course focuses on OASIS-D1, the most recent update to OASIS, which went into effect on January 1, 2019.