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Creating a Culture of Quality: Strategies for Hospital Leaders

Readiness Rounds

Creating a Culture of Quality: Strategies for Hospital Leaders Quality improvement in hospitals is more than a goalits a commitment that requires an organization-wide cultural shift. A culture of quality doesnt emerge overnight, nor is it the result of a single initiative. Their firsthand experience is invaluable.

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ACO Reporting- A Patient-Centered Approach

p3care

An ACO (Accountable Care Organization) works for the better care of patients. They aim to improve your health by ensuring that you get custom care according to your needs while cutting costs. Enhancing Quality By examining doctors’ performance, ACOs identify strengths and weaknesses in the service of healthcare delivery.

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Overcoming the Challenges of Nurse Leader Proactive Rounding: Strategies for Success

Readiness Rounds

Without such a system, these concerns may go unnoticed or unresolved, leading to ongoing dissatisfaction and compromised care quality. Lack of Accountability and Follow-Up Accountability is crucial for the success of any quality improvement initiative.

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States Build Capacity to Address Maternal Mortality through Policy Innovations

NASHP

After discussion with IDPH, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) also established a prenatal and postpartum care HEDIS (Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set) measure performance improvement project for Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) to identify and close a health disparity gap.

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Voices: Beth Ann Longo, Associate Director, Department of Research, The Joint Commission

Home Health Care

We believe that seeking and maintaining accreditation — i.e. voluntarily committing to meet quality and safety standards and opening your doors to a rigorous inspection by The Joint Commission — can help home health agencies hold themselves accountable, and that this leads to more consistent high quality care.

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State Oversight and Innovations in Medicaid-Managed Long-Term Services and Supports (MLTSS) Serving Older Adults and People with Disabilities 

NASHP

States are hoping to achieve a number of goals with their MLTSS programs, including increasing access to home and community-based services, promoting care coordination, enhancing quality and beneficiary satisfaction, and mitigating cost growth.

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First Do No Harm

Briggs Healthcare

And we hold facilities accountable when they fail to meet those standards. CMS deploys a range of quality measures to encourage transparency in public reporting of the quality of care in facilities and to increase accountability.