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June 24, 2008
Marquette General Home Health & Hospice employee earns COS-C certification
Monica Lund, RN, performance improvement/education coordinator for Marquette General Home Health & Hospice, has successfully completed the exam for the Certificate for OASIS Specialist-Clinical and may now use the designation, COS-C.
To achieve COS-C designation, which is sponsored by the OASIS Certificate and Competency Board, an individual must successfully complete a 100 item, two-and-a-half hour exam. Initiated in October of 2004, more than 1,400 home care clinicians from around the country have achieved this status and over 1,800 home car clinicians have taken the exam.
Marquette General Home Health & Hospice provides services in the central and
southern Upper Peninsula and northeastern Wisconsin with offices in Marquette, Escanaba, Kingsford and Menominee.
To learn more about Marquette General Home Health & Hospice call the office nearest to you. Marquette: (906) 225-3985 or (800) 562-9753, ext. 3985;
Escanaba: (906) 789-1305; Kingsford: (906) 779-1844; Menominee (906) 863-7877.
The OASIS Certificate and Competency Board, Inc., is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting greater reliability in OASIS data, through consistent application of guidelines provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. OASIS is a quality measure used by home health agencies across the country to enhance care for patients in the home.
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