How to Use This Site
What this site is for, how it is organised, and how to find an answer in under thirty seconds.
This site is the reference you reach for between visits — sitting in the car outside a house, working out whether what you just saw counts as a surgical wound, or whether the patient you are about to discharge is still homebound.
It is not a policy manual and it does not replace your judgment. Where it and your agency's current policy disagree, policy wins — tell an owner so the page gets fixed.
Finding things fast
Search first. The search box is in the header on every page. It looks inside the full text of every page, not just titles, so searching eschar finds the staging page even though the word is not in its name.
Browse by section if you would rather work through a topic properly. The sidebar lists all fourteen sections; each one expands to show its pages.
Colour is a shortcut. Every section has its own colour — OASIS is amber, Documentation is red, Eligibility is purple. After a week you will find yourself looking for the colour before you read the name.
How the site is organised
| Sections | What they cover |
|---|---|
| 1–2 | Getting started, and how home health works |
| 3–6 | The rules: eligibility, OASIS, visit types, the plan of care |
| 7 | Documentation — the section you will use most |
| 8–9 | Clinical skills, split into nursing and therapy |
| 10–11 | Common diagnoses and safety |
| 12–14 | Working with the team, field logistics, quick reference |
Only sections 8 and 9 are discipline-specific. Everything else applies to nursing and therapy alike — a therapist needs to understand homebound status and skilled language exactly as much as a nurse does.
Labels you will see
- Nursing or Therapy on a page means it is written for that discipline. No label means it is for everyone.
- Draft means an editor is still working on it. Readers do not see drafts.
- Internal means the page requires a sign-in. Most of the site is open; agency-specific material may not be.
On your phone
The site is built for a phone first. Tap the menu button at the top left for the section list. Longer pages have an On this page box near the top — use it to jump straight to the part you need instead of scrolling.
Something wrong or missing?
Tell one of the site editors. Pages are updated in place, so a correction goes live for everyone at once — there is no "latest version" to hunt for, and nothing to re-print. If you find something that contradicts current policy or CMS guidance, say so; that is the most useful feedback there is.