This is a feature to collect Hospice caregiver information for CAHPS export. This screen will only appear when a Hospice patient is selected.
Pull up the Hospice patient from the Select Patient screen then click on the Background/Envnmt screen > Environment tab > Hospice CAHPS Caregiver Details tab.
From here you have two options: select why the decedent/caregiver will be disqualified from the survey OR enter the caregiver information for the survey.
Patients/Caregivers NOT being sent on the survey:
As needed, select the reason why the decedent/caregiver will be disqualified for the survey and click the Save CAHPS Data button.. After you select a reason the bottom portion for caregiver information will disappear. If you did select a reason by mistake you can right-click it to deselect and the caregiver questions at the bottom to appear again.
Patients/Caregivers that WILL be sent on the survey:
The items with yellow boxes are required before saving. Select pieces of information will be copied forward from the patient's referral. The caregiver fields from the referral will not copy forward due to irrgeular use of these fields. We did supply the caregiver and emergency contact text at the bottom of the page so that you can copy and paste select information as needed.
- The patient's last name is copied to the caregivers last name
- The patient's address will be blank, with an option to "Copy the Patient's Address"
- The language is default to English
- The facility name of your agency will automatically be filled in
- Patient is a US Military Veteran will default to No
- If the discharge reason is 09 Expired at Home then the Last Care Location is set to Home
Click the Save CAHPS Data button when finished. If any required fields are blank then you will need to answer them before information will be saved.