HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Between 2019 and 2022 alone, overall hospital expenses surged by 17.5%, while hospital labor costs grew by 20.8%, according to a recent report from the American Hospital Association.

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Readiness Rounds

JANUARY 20, 2025

Did you know that unaddressed environmental hazards are a leading cause of preventable incidents in hospitals? Data-Driven Improvements : Implement performance improvement (PI) platforms to identify patterns in deficiencies, align improvement initiatives, and track KPIs.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Jason Harber, Vice President of Client Services, iQueue for Inpatient Flow, LeanTaaS Every day, hospital teams are facing inpatient flow challenges like excessive emergency department surgical admit boarders. Those who will reap the most rewards will be the early adopters of these systems — and the ones who pair AI with change management.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare On March 9, 2023, CMS posted QSO-23-09-Hospital. The initial 4-pages of this document are the Memorandum with the remaining 17 pages are the CMS Condition of Participation, Hospital Appendix A – QAPI Guidance Updates.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 17, 2025

Most recently, as President of Vizient, a healthcare performance improvement company partnering with over 3,000 hospitals, Sundaram expanded the companys capabilities in services, technology, and data. He brings a strong track record of driving transformational growth.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

As health care organizations adopt new care models that respond to patient preferences, improve patient access and create efficiencies in service delivery, ACHC’s program supports this transformation by establishing guidelines and best practices for providers delivering hospital-level care at home.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 13, 2021

News & World Report Best Hospitals, and Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades. For the organization, measurement-based care is the opportunity to assess the effectiveness of programming and interventions as a key component of ongoing performance improvement initiatives, he said. THE PROBLEM. " RESULTS.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 13, 2025

What You Should Know: – Augmedix , a leader in ambient AI medical documentation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Commure has secured a contract with Vizient , the nation’s largest provider-driven healthcare performance improvement company.

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Readiness Rounds

DECEMBER 4, 2024

How Will CMS 2025 Affect My Hospital? How Can We Improve Quality and Patient Outcomes? What Are the Steps for Integration into Quality Improvement? How Can We Improve Data Management and Staff Training? How Can We Improve Mobility for Older Adults? What’s the Next Step for My Hospital?

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p3care

MAY 31, 2024

Consider it as a group that combines hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare specialists for the sake of providing healthcare and is a team in care decisions. They aim to improve your health by ensuring that you get custom care according to your needs while cutting costs.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 24, 2023

What You Should Know: – Hospitals and health systems are seeing some signs of stabilization and margin improvement, but challenges around workforce, expenses and patient access persist according to Kaufman Hall’s 2023 State of Healthcare Performance Improvement report.

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Readiness Rounds

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The Hidden Key to Higher HCAHPS Scores: Better Use of Communication Boards The Power of Clear, Consistent Communication in Healthcare Patient communication boards are a simple yet highly effective tool in improving patient safety, satisfaction, and hospital performance.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Performance Improvement: Identifying areas for improvement in care delivery and patient outcomes. Key Areas of Focus in VBC Consulting The survey identified eight key areas where VBC consulting firms assist healthcare organizations: Strategy Development: Creating a roadmap for transitioning to VBC and achieving desired outcomes.

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Readiness Rounds

APRIL 26, 2018

White Plains Hospital First in the Country To Adopt Innovative System-Wide Platform To Enhance Patient Safety, Experience, and Quality of Care. New Program Takes the Hospital’s Exceptional Care to the Next Level. About White Plains Hospital. High Reliability” Initiative Ensures Consistency Across the Board. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.

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Readiness Rounds

APRIL 26, 2018

White Plains Hospital First in the Country To Adopt Innovative System-Wide Platform To Enhance Patient Safety, Experience, and Quality of Care. New Program Takes the Hospital’s Exceptional Care to the Next Level. About White Plains Hospital. High Reliability” Initiative Ensures Consistency Across the Board. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.

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Readiness Rounds

JANUARY 13, 2025

Win-Win: Proactive Nurse Leader Rounding = Improved Patient Satisfaction, But How? Nurse leader rounding is a well-established and proven strategy for enhancing patient satisfaction and improving outcomes in hospitals. Lets explore how hospitals can maximize the impact of nurse leader rounding and achieve sustained success.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Since CMS standardized it in 2018, Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement program, or QAPI, has served as a guiding light for home-based care providers. If a provider knows they need to focus on reducing acute-care hospitalizations, for instance, QAPI can help them do so. This makes it a highly effective approach.

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Readiness Rounds

JANUARY 21, 2025

Overcoming the Challenges of Nurse Leader Proactive Rounding: Strategies for Success Hospital are continually seeking effective strategies to elevate patient satisfaction and improve quality outcomes. However, despite their potential, many hospitals find that these initiatives often fall short of expectations.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 10, 2023

At-Home Health Care — Sparta Community Hospital’s home health segment — has made successful care transitions a priority in an effort to lower rehospitalizations and ER visits. Sparta Community Hospital is located in Southern Illinois and is a 25-bed full-service acute care medical facility.

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Nordic

AUGUST 12, 2024

Through a scalable, flexible, and holistic performance improvement approach, Nordic helped a large hospital system in Texas accelerate cash flow, decrease labor costs, train staff, and enhance efficiency.

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Readiness Rounds

AUGUST 28, 2023

How Patient Satisfaction (HCAHPS) is Impacted by the Hospital’s Physical Environment Patient satisfaction and HCAHPS improvements go far beyond medical expertise or outcome. The hospital environment plays a pivotal role in shaping a patient's (and visitors) experience and overall satisfaction.

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Osf Healthcare

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Nationwide, death and re-hospitalization rates remain high among people with heart failure who have transitioned from in-patient to out-patient care. As a result, OSF HealthCare has made it a priority to reduce its own mortality and readmission rates among this population using innovative methods and collaborative thinking. “We

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Osf Healthcare

JULY 13, 2021

After an inpatient hospital stay, many individuals are eager to get home as soon as possible, but the process for discharge is no easy feat. Performance Improvement, with OSF Innovation, partnered with OSF HealthCare Sacred Heart Medical Center to create collaboration within the care team and optimize the process.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2024

The American Hospital Association (AHA) warned that many providers will be unable to meet payroll due to financial strain caused by the attack. February’s cyberattack reminded providers that actions entirely outside their control can negatively impact operations.

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Home Health Care

MAY 15, 2022

The IAC provides research, analytics, health policy analysis and performance improvement collaboratives for the ACO industry. Instead, it’s usually home-based primary care, home-based care coordination, transition to home, social needs care and hospital-level home care.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

a leading healthcare performance improvement company, has released its latest Pharmacy Market Outlook , projecting a 3.8% What You Should Know: – Vizient, Inc., growth in drug price inflation. “Managing pharmacy expenditures and strengthening the supply chain is more important than ever.” ”

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 26, 2023

The only way we are going to enable real performance improvements and address critical issues like clinician shortages and burnout is if we simplify and streamline workflows for clinicians. Many agreed that hospitals are only taking advantage of a small percentage of the multi-million-dollar systems available to them.

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Readiness Rounds

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In today’s blog post we're discussing how Rise & Shine–our latest regulatory compliance solution–can help hospitals deal with the tightened CMS rules on unannounced visits. This approach helps reduce findings, improves patient safety, and supports sustainable performance improvement. Headlines: 1. Key Takeaways 5.

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Nordic

JUNE 26, 2023

KaufmanHall’s Operating Margin Index (Figure 1) highlights the financial crisis hospitals are in today and how these razor thin margins are becoming the new norm in a post-pandemic environment. 1 Figure 1: Kaufman Hall Operating Margin Index YTD by Month

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Peter started his career in health policy but has spent more than 20 years in revenue cycle performance improvement. He has worked with a variety of hospital and physician clients, including prominent academic medical centers and local community hospitals, to deliver measurable financial improvements through operational changes.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

This convergence of negative patient experience scores, employee burnout, and lost revenue is, unsurprisingly, keeping hospital and health system leaders up at night. To date, the majority of patient engagement has been driven by hospital, health system and provider priorities. Now it’s time to ask what the patient wants to do.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Under the model, home health providers are paid based on how well they keep their patients healthy and out of the hospital. It’s tying in the information from the OASIS, the information from the patient-experience surveys and hospital readmissions, which agencies are already focused on managing.”.

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Readiness Rounds

AUGUST 14, 2023

In hospitals, where patient experience is important and quality of care is non-negotiable, a subtle yet profound practice has emerged as a catalyst for positive change: Executive Leadership Rounds. Unpacking Leadership Rounds: Leadership Rounds is a dynamic practice in hospitals that brings leaders, staff, and together.

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Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2023

Episode Introduction As hospitals struggle with spiraling costs, Lisa Miller reveals seven key ways to save money in the next 12 months. So I feel like that’s an innovation for hospitals. But I want to give you one more nuanced thought….Could … my number one advice is to pull those projects together…. Innovative positions.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 14, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Q4FY22 release of the Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) with statistics through September 2022 is now available for download through the PEPPER Resources Portal.

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Readiness Rounds

JANUARY 20, 2025

Nurse Leader Rounds: There is a Disconnect Between Intent and Outcome Nurse Leader Rounding (NLR) has long been heralded as a strategic approach to enhance patient satisfaction and boost Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scores.

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NASHP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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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