Tag: OT

Occupational Therapy Month

April is Occupational Therapy Month and The American Occupational Therapy Association’s 2024 theme is Occupational Therapy: Advancing Health, Wellbeing and Quality of Life.  What is Occupational Therapy?  Simply put, occupational therapy enables people of all ages to participate in daily living.  Our lives are made up of occupations-meaningful everyday activities.  These occupations can include many…

Occupational Therapist CoP Changes

Year 2022 is almost here and those of us in home health care must consider the Final Rule and changes which become effective on January 1, 2022.  One alteration to the Conditions of Participation is the allowance of an occupational therapist to perform the initial visit and comprehensive assessment.  This is a bit of a…