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

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.

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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.

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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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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.

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Sequence Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Effective communication during care transitions, along with proper medication reconciliation, is vital for preventing readmissions and improving overall patient outcomes. Preventing Complications and Infections Preventing complications and infections is essential to reducing hospital readmissions.

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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.

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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. 41% of all U.S.

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Vie Healthcare

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Do I envision me going in the ICU bed with a nurse putting lines at me….how You know, we promise to do no harm in medicine in nursing as well. ….There’s I’ve had many managers who their description of their job was to really serve the team, serve other nurses, so that they can better provide care for their patients.

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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?”

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

.” Or conversely, “Hey, based on this, we saved you a trip to the cath lab, but let’s talk about your lipid management to prevent further issues down the road.” For hospitals, it’s probably a little different as far as what ultimately persuades them. Two, fun fact, I drove a 1985 Chevette in 2005.

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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.

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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.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 20, 2023

Le is excited about the PACE model’s ability to improve health outcomes and lower costs through preventative care. Now, it’s very robust, and obviously, an expensive model with fully employed docs, nurse practitioners, psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, pharmacists, dieticians and navigators. I thought, what the heck?

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Patient Safety Movement

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Each year, WHO highlights a theme to bring awareness to a specific area where urgent action is necessary to reduce preventable harm. This year’s theme is Medication Safety to underscore the need to implement measures that promote safe medication distribution to prevent medication errors and medication-related harm.

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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. It’s initiated, not as a preventative or proactive planned thing. It is not among upon discharge from the hospital.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 14, 2025

Knowing that patients may wait a year-plus for a specialist appointment, I cant emphasize enough the importance of two things: preventative care and telemedicine. 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.

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Patient Safety Movement

AUGUST 29, 2023

Our founder, Joe Kiani, demanded that we call people in office at the local, state, and federal levels to hardwire patient safety; and align incentives so that every hospital puts in place actionable evidence-based incentives. No one should have to endure the loss of a loved one or a catastrophic condition due to a preventable situation.

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