KHN

APRIL 29, 2022

More than four years ago, Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught typed two letters into a hospital’s computerized medication cabinet, selected the wrong drug from the search results, and gave a patient a fatal dose. Nurses will need to correctly spell perplexing drug names, sometimes in chaotic medical emergencies.

Hospitals 119

Hospitals Nursing Accountability Patient Safety 119

Home Health Care

JULY 18, 2022

Tampa General Hospital has thrown its hat into the home-based care ring. To pull this off, the hospital has formed a partnership with the Visiting Nurse Association of Florida (VNA), a home health agency. Tampa General Hospital is a nonprofit academic medical center and one of the largest hospitals in the U.S.

Nursing 98

Nursing Home Care Rehabilitation Hospitals 98

HIT Consultant

JUNE 5, 2024

Hospitals that have a higher rate of Medicare patients readmitted within 30 days of discharge than the government deems appropriate will have their Medicare payments reduced. Starting in fiscal year 2024, the VBP model extended to skilled nursing facilities.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 2, 2022

Since students were not classified as critical employees of hospitals, it became difficult for them to gain clinical hours with patients. The National Nursing Board has recognized the value of simulation by allowing nursing students to earn up to 50% of their clinical time on simulation. Journal of Nursing Regulation.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 13, 2023

As time went on, having the opportunity to work with my mother in nursing homes without walls, very different from what we see today in home care. My mom was a retired nurse and she was taking care of my dad at home. My mom was losing a lot of weight, and we had to put them into a skilled nursing facility.

Home Care 105

Home Care Nursing Urgent Care Hospitals 105

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Multiple studies, from The Nurse Practitioner and the Annals of Medicine and Surgery , identify POCUS as a convenient tool that reduces the number of imaging tests required to achieve a diagnosis and is able to circumvent barriers that have prevented certain populations from being able to access medical imaging in the past.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 14, 2022

based Georgetown Home Care (GHC) has yet again lowered readmission rates for a major hospital. Its readmission success ostensibly began in 2019 when the home care agency first worked with spinal surgery patients at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital. The Washington D.C.-based In a pilot program, it reduced readmissions by 44%.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 27, 2024

For about 10 years, I was running a group practice, doing that, caring for people in nursing homes, in the home etc. The big difference, probably, in the last maybe 10 to 15 years is that Medicaid, state agencies, have actually started paying for it, as part of an effort to keep people out of nursing homes and in the home.

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Primary Care Medicare Nursing Medicaid 111

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 14, 2025

Patients may also be unaware of how broadly telemedicine has been adopted over the past few years in order to expand access to care, including at their local hospital. This is where nursing leaders must step inbridging the gap between clinical excellence and strategic integration. Doing so will reduce the need to see specialists.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

We really believe, as a value organization, that by moving to the home, we identify so many factors that drive health that you cannot see in a clinic or a hospital. The skilled nursing facility market has changed so dramatically,” Keefe said. That’s what Keefe calls “committing to the whole patient.”

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Home Health Care

JUNE 15, 2023

Another study published in 2022 likewise documented challenges with hospital-to-home transitions, with University of Michigan researchers noting that patients were more likely to suffer a setback requiring another hospitalization when post-acute care handoffs weren’t as comprehensive as they should be.

Hospitals 98

Hospitals Care Transition Medicaid Medicare 98

Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Jim Ferch ( 09:36 ): So you know, when a case is completed, a circulating nurse takes those stickers who runs over to the computer and in the OR, that was… The case was just completed, and documents the charting information for those implants for that patient account.

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Process improvement Nursing Hospitals Accountability 97

p3care

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It is the information given by the patients during their visit to a clinic or a hospital. But none of us are 100% foolproof, and we can’t guarantee that a patient won’t catch a peek of a form or overhear the details when a doctor is talking to a nurse. It includes details such as: Addresses. Provision of healthcare.

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Medical Practitioners Healthcare Providers Doctors Healthcare 130

p3care

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It is the information given by the patients during their visit to a clinic or a hospital. But none of us are 100% foolproof, and we can’t guarantee that a patient won’t catch a peek of a form or overhear the details when a doctor is talking to a nurse. It includes details such as: Addresses. Provision of healthcare.

Medical Practitioners 130

Medical Practitioners Healthcare Providers Doctors Healthcare 130

HIT Consultant

JULY 5, 2022

Existing hospital IT systems and the stand-alone medical devices they operate lack a collective clinical intelligence that aggregates all patient data into one source. This is especially important now more than ever because of healthcare professionals leaving the industry each day, and over fifty percent of nurses are considering retirement.

Healthcare 91

Healthcare Hospitals Nursing Hospital IT 91

KHN

APRIL 29, 2022

More than four years ago, Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught typed two letters into a hospital’s computerized medication cabinet, selected the wrong drug from the search results, and gave a patient a fatal dose. Nurses will need to correctly spell perplexing drug names, sometimes in chaotic medical emergencies.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Nursing Accountability Patient Safety 52

Readiness Rounds

JANUARY 27, 2025

For hospitals, its the foundation of patient safety, trust, and reputation. Hospitals that embed quality practices into their daily operations are better equipped to adapt to evolving challenges, whether they are regulatory, financial, or operational.

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Hospitals Performance improvement Quality Improvement Patient Safety 52

Home Health Care

JUNE 7, 2024

Our top priorities right now are around post-acute care and ensuring that patients have a smooth journey when they leave the hospital. And more importantly, making sure that they don’t end up back in the hospital. Again, if we push the envelope too hard on the right side, we absolutely have trouble finding nurses out there.

Nursing 69

Nursing Medicare Medicaid Hospitals 69

Patient Safety Movement

JULY 31, 2023

The human cost of this failure to implement evidence-based practices into our hospitals was shown by a study published earlier this year in the New England Journal of Medicine. Assessing 11 Massachusetts hospitals, it found that nearly one in four patients admitted experienced an adverse event.

Prevention 52

Prevention Patient Safety Healthcare Hospitals 52

Patient Safety Movement

JULY 31, 2023

The human cost of this failure to implement evidence-based practices into our hospitals was shown by a study published earlier this year in the New England Journal of Medicine. Assessing 11 Massachusetts hospitals, it found that nearly one in four patients admitted experienced an adverse event.

Prevention 52

Prevention Patient Safety Healthcare Hospitals 52

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2022

nursing turnover in a period of 12 months, in addition to an average increase of 4 to 5 percentage points in vacancy rates during the same period. It is critical for providers to not only understand how their patients’ health is progressing but also how those patients manage their own health beyond the hospital walls.

Integration 52

Integration Hospitals Nursing Healthcare 52

Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 7, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare On June 6, 2023, CMS posted QSO-23-16-Hospitals. diagnoses and medications) in order to protect and improve the patient’s health and safety.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Regulations Nursing Hospital IT 52

HIT Consultant

APRIL 7, 2023

These demands include: Data Availability: Hospitals need to have access to complete, accurate, and up-to-date patient data in order to provide effective care. This includes both structured data (such as lab results and medications) and unstructured data (such as notes from doctors and nurses).

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Life Sciences Accountability Integration 52

Home Health Care

JUNE 7, 2022

In addition to the hospital-at-home waiver, Messina also addressed the growing demand for home-based palliative care and models that bring skilled-nursing-facility (SNF) care into the home. HHCN recently caught up with Messina for an update on Contessa following that major milestone. This interview was edited for length and clarity.

Hospitals 111

Hospitals Home Care Hospice Care Prevention 111

Vie Healthcare

OCTOBER 28, 2022

So this is just money that the hospital gets to keep. And I can tell you as a bedside nurse, there was a huge reliance on the vendor rep and just asking them, “Hey, do we need to send this back for warranty?”, Al said that the software solution allows hospitals to see revenue received and fines avoided. Absolutely.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Nursing Accountability Medicare 52

Vie Healthcare

OCTOBER 18, 2023

On the revenue side, if you end up increasing revenue by let’s say a few million, only about 2% to 4% of that ends up going to the bottom line, because that’s usually the margin of a hospital. Again, this is an area that VIE has been involved with, but personally as a bedside nurse, it’s something we never thought about.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Hospitals Nursing Hospital IT 52

Sequence Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

For impactful intervention strategies addressing those likely facing repeat admissions into hospitals, its crucial that calculation tools determining possible readmission scores become available promptly while still hospitalizedempowering medical teams to perform necessary actions pre-discharge aimed at diminishing chances of return stays.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Care Transition Primary Care Prevention 52

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

But if you look at a hospital, it's the place with the best resources for clinical care in our country, for example, the staff, providers, equipment and technology. In a hospital, you hit the "nurse call button" if you're not feeling well or something isn't right. Healthcare is hard.

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Hospitals Primary Care Nursing Home Care 333

Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2023

And we’ve done that with hospitals, taken away the heavy lift part of it because it is a bit of a heavy lift and really it’s just been remarkable how much we take out by taking that approach.’’ It may be very beneficial to outsource dietary or, for your hospital, it may be really beneficial to insource.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Healthcare Doctors Accountability 52

Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 6, 2024

Since 2007, Jim has been a registered nurse working in critical care, perioperative services and outpatient settings at nationally recognized medical facilities across three states. Because it speaks to process throughout a hospital. Lisa is the founder of VIE Healthcare Consulting and now Managing Director at SpendMend.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Healthcare Accountability Process improvement 52

Vie Healthcare

APRIL 26, 2023

Episode Introduction Preston explains that the principal issue with US healthcare is its profit-driven approach, why healthcare must be a forward-thinking Netflix, rather than an obsolete Blockbuster, and why the nursing shortage is the result of a broken system. Today, we’re 300,000 nurses short. What goes into all that?”

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Nursing Hospitals Doctors 52

Briggs Healthcare

JULY 27, 2022

Instead, many hospitals often skip teeth brushing to prioritize other tasks and provide only cheap, ineffective toothbrushes, often unaware of the consequences, said Dian Baker, a Sacramento State nursing professor who has spent more than a decade studying NVHAP. Pneumonia occurs when germs trigger an infection in the lungs.

Hospitals 75

Hospitals Prevention Accountability Nursing 75

Vie Healthcare

MAY 4, 2023

Since 2007, Jim has been a registered nurse working in critical care, perioperative services, and outpatient settings at nationally recognized medical facilities across three states. I mean, you can put good people… It’s what we see with all the nursing shortages right now. Today, we’re 300,000 nurses short.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Nursing Hospitals Doctors 52

Vie Healthcare

MARCH 7, 2022

The clear parallels between the impact of Hurricane Katrina and the pandemic on wellbeing and mental health. ‘ ’ If that’s the nurses and physicians in a hospital, it’s going to affect their productivity and judgement. For more resources download our Research Report Hospital Resource Guide to Post-Pandemic Recovery.

Nursing 52

Nursing Hospitals Healthcare Doctors 52

Vie Healthcare

MARCH 7, 2022

The clear parallels between the impact of Hurricane Katrina and the pandemic on wellbeing and mental health. ‘ ’ If that’s the nurses and physicians in a hospital, it’s going to affect their productivity and judgement. For more resources download our Research Report Hospital Resource Guide to Post-Pandemic Recovery.

Nursing 52

Nursing Hospitals Healthcare Doctors 52

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. When I was in that experience in that hospital, it was fantastic. It is not among upon discharge from the hospital.

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Hospitals Nursing Doctors Healthcare 52

Vie Healthcare

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Just getting nurses in their travel. So, uh, and just to give you an example, and I wrote this down, was a med-surg nurse two years ago, hourly rate would be $65 an hour. They’re right now at $142 an hour. But what happens is it gets embedded in the contract. I think their stock is like double. There’s strategies to deploy.

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