Home Health Care

JUNE 25, 2024

A study of SOAR’s results within a pilot program in Pennsylvania was recently published in the Journal for Healthcare Quality. “On The goal of the SOAR program is to provide a high-quality, nurse-led replicable transition of care framework from hospital to home.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 13, 2024

A DNP (Doctor of Nursing) degree is meant to help registered nurses with a BSN or MSN achieve the highest clinical nursing education level. The DNP degree shows that nurses have reached the peak of education. Earning a DNP degree elevates your nursing career while substantially influencing your salary.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 17, 2024

This collaboration is part of our commitment to drive improved healthcare quality while reducing costs and addressing healthcare issues facing entire communities,” said Jodi Pahl, Chief Nursing Officer for workforce experience and nursing outcomes, Bon Secours Mercy Health.

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Medical GPS

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A quick survey of your healthcare peers (or even a Google search) will tell you one thing almost certain about the importance of care team communication with patients: most healthcare quality experts agree that improving communication between patients and healthcare staff is the number one factor in improving patient experience.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

There are also interoperability concerns; as more healthcare systems choose to implement biometric security options for patients, different healthcare systems’ biometrics systems must be able to interact. This has the potential to exacerbate the healthcare quality divide separating minorities and non-minorities.

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Readiness Rounds

JANUARY 27, 2025

Listen to the Conversation Instead The Importance of a Quality-Focused Culture In healthcare, quality is non-negotiable. A culture of quality means that every staff member, from the C-suite to the frontline, is committed to delivering the best possible care.

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NCQA

DECEMBER 6, 2023

She’s been a college professor/mentor for nursing students and director of nursing for multiple home health agencies in the District of Columbia. Hannah is certified in Project Management, is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) and a Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS).

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Etactics

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The main goal for the HIPAA Privacy Rule (December 20, 2000) is to protect health information without infringing upon providing quality healthcare. Doctors and nurses must be able to care for their patient’s after all. In essence, HIPAA balances the confidentiality, integrity and availability of healthcare information.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 3, 2023

This article is sponsored by HealthCare Quality Consulting. to learn about using structured orientation and continued education to drive improvement in quality, reduce turnover and reduce cost in the home health industry. She explains how this need led to the creation of the HOP Into Homecare!

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Readiness Rounds

AUGUST 28, 2023

Private Nursing Conversations: Prohibit audible discussions from nursing stations to hallways. Food: The Connection Between Food Services and Patient Satisfaction The quality of food services significantly impacts patient satisfaction. Cleanliness and maintenance are vital for patient safety and trust in healthcare quality.

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Icanotes

JANUARY 5, 2024

Do therapist AI tools consistently adhere to HIPAA and other healthcare quality and privacy standards? Start Your Free Trial Today October Boyles, MSN, BSN, RN Clinical Director October has been a Registered Nurse for over 15 years. She is board certified in Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing.

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Sequence Health

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

When nurses engage with feedback regularly, they are more likely to remember and utilize what they learnproviding an ongoing betterment of service excellence. This responsiveness significantly enhances patient satisfaction and overall healthcare quality. Why are feedback loops important in healthcare?

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HIT Consultant

JULY 27, 2023

Felicia Sadler, MJ, BSN, RN, CPHQ, LSSBB, VP of Quality at Relias Despite the recent end to the COVID-19 global public health emergency, its effects linger. This includes nurse and clinician shortages, which persist across hospitals and health systems nationwide. Engage your clinical workforce Ask nurses for their input.

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

And in healthcare, quality and safety, obviously we like to say that if you cut the wrong leg off, all the smiles in the world aren’t gonna create a good patient experience, right? So when she said to the nurse, “I can’t F word sleep.” You can learn more about VIE Healthcare at viehealthcare.com.

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Health Dialog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Beyond helping to treat rashes, colds, and migraines, a call with a nurse can mean the difference between a trip to the ER or a trip to the local pharmacy. In this series, we spotlight the hard-working nurses who educate, coach, inform, and reassure our client’s members when they need it most. What work did you do before Health Dialog?

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Vie Healthcare

JULY 26, 2023

I’ve become a bit of a cynic because I see my father in a nursing home, and my mom is paying $12,000 a month for his care, and the person in the bed next to him is on Medicaid and paying nothing. Lisa is the founder of VIE Healthcare Consulting and is now managing director at SpendMend. Mom is now on her way to the ER.

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Patient Safety Movement

JUNE 1, 2023

“Failures to develop world-class infection control facilities put both health workers and patients at risk, but there was also the issue of transitions of care, which greatly affected elderly patients and led to the virus spreading through nursing homes. That should have been part of our thinking from a patient safety perspective.”

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Patient Safety Movement

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Thanks to Elijeko Foundation, lives are being saved in Ghana through preventive health education and free healthcare screenings. Andrews Kwabena Nyantakyi, a US Navy veteran and registered nurse, founded Elijeko Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, in 2016. We are doing this—and healthcare is better because of it. We can do this.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

It will assist healthcare personnel to prevent infections more effectively in healthcare settings, support rapid response to detect and contain infectious organisms, enhance laboratory capacity, and engage in innovation targeted at combating infectious disease threats. Over the next 3 years, CDC will issue $1.25

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Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

On September 11, the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) had its virtual meeting where it reviewed quality and safety of healthcare. On September 21, our Founder, Joe Kiani, was one of the keynote speakers at the 2023 Beta Healthcare Annual Member Symposium.

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Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But many years before it was the nurse Florence Nightingale who taught us the importance of recording and contemporaneous note taking and even more importantly the analysis of outcome data to drive improvement. He tried and failed many times to persuade his colleagues in different hospitals in Boston before finally establishing the process.

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