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Creating a Culture of Quality: Strategies for Hospital Leaders

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Creating a Culture of Quality: Strategies for Hospital Leaders Quality improvement in hospitals is more than a goalits a commitment that requires an organization-wide cultural shift. A culture of quality doesnt emerge overnight, nor is it the result of a single initiative. Their firsthand experience is invaluable.

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A Practical Approach to CMS 2025 Age-Friendly Measures

Readiness Rounds

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? This integration ensures that all aspects of patient care are aligned with the latest standards. What is the 4Ms Framework?

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Overcoming the Challenges of Nurse Leader Proactive Rounding: Strategies for Success

Readiness Rounds

Significant investments in time and resources yield little or no improvement in key metrics such as HCAHPS scores and patient outcomes. Without an integrated system to structure the rounding process and ensure every patient is consistently visited, even the most dedicated efforts can collapse under administrative burdens.

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Strengthening Oral Health in the U.S. Through Integration and Workforce Development: Lessons from State and Federal Health Officials

NASHP

Through Integration and Workforce Development: Lessons from State and Federal Health Officials September 27, 2022 / by Allie Atkeson and Megan D’Alessandro. Topics included integrating oral health across physical and behavioral health sectors, workforce innovations, and opportunities for federal-state collaboration.

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State Oversight and Innovations in Medicaid-Managed Long-Term Services and Supports (MLTSS) Serving Older Adults and People with Disabilities 

NASHP

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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Improving Oral Health Access through Managed Care Quality Initiatives in Pennsylvania

NASHP

Recently, Pennsylvania shared their work with managed care organizations (MCO)s to improve access to oral health care services through quality improvement projects, measures, and incentives. Medicaid Managed Care Dental Performance. PH-MCO Initiatives to Promote Oral Health.

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Behavioral Health System Modernization along the Continuum

NASHP

It includes examples from various states organized by the framework buckets: integrated primary and behavioral health care, crisis continuum of care, in-home and in-community based, and out-of-home and community. States have a range of tools and policy levers at their disposal to build capacity for integrated behavioral health approaches.