Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Broadly, HHVBP has many supporters among the home health industry due to its ability to boost quality scores and Medicare savings. HHVBP is a Medicare demonstration that links reimbursement to quality of care. If you’re striving toward quality, that should also translate well into your financial results.

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Readiness Rounds

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Well Screen , the entrance management technology used to screen 10 million staff and visitors per year by hospitals and healthcare systems on-site is now available via a mobile application. When healthcare facilities protect people entering their buildings, they also improve their quality of care and patient experience.

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Quality of Care Patient Safety Performance improvement Patient Experience 52

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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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2022

Samsung Advances Smart Hospital Experience with New Connected TV and Mobile Digital Health Solutions. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of hospitalization in the VA health care system. Adobe Experience Cloud for Healthcare Launches. FDB Launches FDB Vela.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2022

. – Together, utilizing the cloud, Dedalus and AWS will offer customers around the world cost-optimization and agility via smart provisioning and need-based elasticity, built-in disaster recovery, as well as improved clinical system performance, reliability, availability, and security and compliance posture.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

That not only costs us a lot of money, but it also impacts the quality of care we can provide to patients, residents, and people in their homes.” ” That’s why we built Arena originally in the health care space, and we’ve had great success there.

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Quality of Care Performance improvement Hospitals 19

Briggs Healthcare

JULY 1, 2022

Rural Emergency Hospitals (REHs) are a new provider type established by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 to address the growing concern over closures of rural hospitals. Critical Access Hospitals. For more information on Rural Emergency Hospital and Critical Access Hospital Conditions of Participation, visit: [link].

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NASHP

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Value-Added Services Services that are not covered under the state plan but that a managed care plan opts to spend a portion of its administrative funding from its capitation to improve quality of care and/or reduce costs. State Example Virginia Medallion 4.0

Medicaid 72

Medicaid Performance improvement Nursing Integration 72

Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 20, 2023

A recent study found that when a patient is admitted to the hospital, harm occurs nearly 24 percent of the time. Another report revealed that nearly 1 in 4 Medicare patients have experienced harm in the hospital. Prior to COVID-19, progress was being made to improve patient safety.

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Readiness Rounds

JULY 31, 2023

Patient communication boards play a pivotal role in enhancing both patient satisfaction and a hospital's HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) score and star rating. Do you ever question the effectiveness of your hospital's communication boards?

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NASHP

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Pennsylvania is developing a statewide maternal health strategic plan that will involve roundtable discussions and events with pregnant and postpartum people to provide the departments of Human Services, Health, and Drug and Alcohol programs with qualitative data on maternal health needs to advance health equity and improve services.

Medicaid 80

Medicaid Performance improvement Prevention Health Data 80

NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

Illinois described using two dashboards to monitor performance: a population-specific dashboard that includes data on metrics such as care plan completion and care transitions and an internal-performance dashboard to examine differences in care and utilization by race, ethnicity, and region.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Serious illness is “a health condition that carries a high risk of mortality and either negatively impacts a person’s daily function or quality of life or excessively strains the caregiver.”. As part of contract and systems oversight, states engage in a range of quality assessment and improvement strategies.

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Medicaid Hospice Care Regulations Integration 102

NASHP

AUGUST 24, 2023

State health reform efforts increasingly focus on providing comprehensive and well-coordinated care to people with serious illness to improve quality of care and drive down costs. Reach out to state professional and hospital associations. Use the state’s palliative care task force as a resource.

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Medicaid Quality Assurance Hospitals Quality of Care 52

Vie Healthcare

JUNE 10, 2022

In Episode 48 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience, Lisa is joined by Jim Cagliostro, a Registered Nurse and VIE’s Clinical Operations Performance Improvement Expert. 02:13 Patient care assistance enables nursing staff to focus on their strengths. Lisa shared a personal experience of her daughter’s stay in hospital. ‘‘My

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Nursing Hospitals Healthcare Quality of Care 52

Vie Healthcare

APRIL 12, 2023

So every code stroke in the hospital, which sometimes there’s two, three, four a day, those are patients that I have to do data abstraction on. Then I also have to understand how the data determines opportunities for improvement, and that was something I was so completely unaware of as a regular nurse. that’s something ….

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Nursing Hospitals Healthcare Patient Experience 52

Vie Healthcare

APRIL 12, 2023

So every code stroke in the hospital, which sometimes there’s two, three, four a day, those are patients that I have to do data abstraction on. Then I also have to understand how the data determines opportunities for improvement, and that was something I was so completely unaware of as a regular nurse. that’s something ….

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Nursing Hospitals Healthcare Patient Experience 52

Vie Healthcare

JUNE 3, 2022

In Episode 47 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience, Lisa is joined by Jim Cagliostro, a Registered Nurse and VIE’s Clinical Operations Performance Improvement Expert. 06:47 Specialized nursing roles lead to better and safer patient care. Episode Introduction. And that’s even before COVID.’’.

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Vie Healthcare

JUNE 24, 2022

In this episode, Jim Cagliostro, VIE’s Clinical Operations Performance Improvement Expert, interviewed Joe Cagliostro to discuss the benefits technology offers healthcare. A little while ago, one of our last hospitals in our system to go live with lab specimen barcode scanning. Healthcare informatics can help to bridge that gap.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Nursing Hospitals Patient Safety 52

Vie Healthcare

MAY 8, 2024

And even though we may make patient-centered care sound easy and obvious, transitioning to that type of care is a big paradigm shift when you consider that historical context. They’re investments in quality and efficiency, that over time lead to cost savings, right?

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Patient Experience Healthcare Hospitals Life Sciences 52

Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

He also explains why delays to access in care can cost hospitals up to $1 million every month, how one community college turned away over 13,600 qualified students from a program, and why every healthcare leader should become a mentor. Obviously, these things impact patient care, so we understand that. Geoffrey (11:42): Yeah.

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Healthcare Nursing Hospitals Performance improvement 52

NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

North Carolina’s InCK program , led by Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, brings together partners from Medicaid, behavioral health, child welfare, juvenile justice, education, Title V, mobile crisis, and more to coordinate care and address the health and social needs of children in five counties.

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Medicaid Integration Primary Care Nursing 52

Vie Healthcare

AUGUST 2, 2023

In talking to the people that are actually delivering the care, I would talk about what’s important to them. I would say, “Okay, we’re going to be looking at improving the quality of care, improving safety, taking the stress out of the job, reducing burnout, reducing turnover, addressing shortages.”

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Nursing Total Quality Management Hospitals 52

Vie Healthcare

JULY 12, 2023

He also explains why patient engagement is not a marketing issue, why its highest purpose is outcomes, and the need for hospitals to ‘’care for the people who care for their patients.’’ They don’t trust a hospital or a system. So in your opinion, why do hospitals miss the mark? No relationship, no trust.

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Healthcare Nursing Patient Experience Hospitals 52

NASHP

AUGUST 23, 2021

Perhaps the most important is to identify specific goals and objectives early on to guide the details of design, such as the choice of quality metrics for incentive payments. In addition, it is important to build in measurement at the start and to think of state efforts as iterative — moving to tackle new priorities as performance improves.

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Primary Care Medicaid Accountability Quality Improvement 64

Vie Healthcare

OCTOBER 26, 2023

So in order for the call to be successful, the emergency to go well, to have the outcomes that’s desired to save someone’s life, if they need to get to a hospital alive. Lots of leaders whether it’s payers, hospital systems, frankly, or people that are in the health care space. It will go sour. It will go sour.

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Nursing Doctors Hospitals Healthcare 52

Vie Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2023

And I love that you mentioned that about the marketing because hospitals, health systems, I mean, marketing is a reality. It simplifies things and it makes caring for my own health needs much better as a patient. Jim (11:41): Justin, you and I have talked previously about quality in terms of quality of care.

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Doctors Patient Experience Nursing Primary Care 52

NASHP

MAY 17, 2022

13] , [14] Moreover, few CYFC with behavioral health needs receive treatment in home or community-based settings, with many accessing care in more restrictive, residential settings (e.g., residential congregate settings or inpatient psychiatric hospitals). [15] Types of Medicaid Service Delivery Models.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2022

There has been frequent reporting about the problem of provider workforce shortages within hospitals and health systems and the related burnout experienced when working in high-stress situations during the Covid-19 pandemic. Conversely, a hospital with a burnout-reduction program would spend only $11,592 per nurse per year employed.

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Tertiary Care Nursing Patient Experience Patient Safety 98

HIT Consultant

JUNE 2, 2022

There has been frequent reporting about the problem of provider workforce shortages within hospitals and health systems and the related burnout experienced when working in high-stress situations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Conversely, a hospital with a burnout-reduction program would spend only $11,592 per nurse per year employed.

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Tertiary Care Nursing Patient Experience Patient Safety 52

NASHP

MARCH 29, 2024

5 Compared to white, non-Hispanic CYSHCN, CYSHCN who are Black or Latinx are at particular risk of receiving infrequent, low-quality care, 6 while American Indian and Alaska Native CYSHCN are less likely to be able to access specialty treatment or receive culturally sensitive services. 27] Children’s Hospital Association.

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Vie Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The show is sponsored by VIE Healthcare Consulting, a SpendMend company which provides leading edge financial and operational consulting for hospitals, healthcare institutions, and other providers of patient care. And so I think that’s another aspect is you really can’t have quality of care.

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Telemedicine Healthcare Prevention Quality Assurance 52

Vie Healthcare

JULY 26, 2023

27:11 What we don’t measure doesn’t matter Melissa said healthcare can’t improve unless hospitals ask caregivers about their experience. ‘’I I find that interesting because my mom in the hospital can’t clearly even remember that she broke her hip and/or femur, and yet you’re now sending her an after-patient survey.

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Hospitals Nursing Doctors Healthcare 52

NASHP

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This law creates the Licensed Certified Professional Midwife Practice Act, which licenses CPMs who perform out-of-hospital births. Washington: The Midwifery Advisory Committee in Washington serves to protect the public health and safety of the state by regulating the competency and quality of midwives.

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Medicaid Nursing Hospitals Regulations 59