HIT Consultant

MARCH 20, 2024

– In honor of Certified Nurses Day, the survey conducted Propeller Insights in January/February 2024 among 500 healthcare workers, reveals that staff shortages and burnout are taking a significant toll on the industry. The results also reveal confidence that technology such as AI can help.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 1, 2022

Extended care: EMS providers or nursing home staff can use integrated telemedicine systems to obtain physician consultations and complete treatment onsite for patients in the extended care facility, potentially reducing the number of costly, unnecessary transports to the emergency department (ED).

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Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Even before Covid-19, clinicians often worked under conditions that ran counter to their professional standards of care and caring. They often worked in unsafe environments, being responsible for more patients than they could safely care for. Patient safety is directly linked to nurse burnout. Creating Change from Crisis.

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Cloud Blogs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Figure 5: See all the care teams for a patient in one view. Enhance health team coordination and collaboration Care coordination is a complex process involving multiple stakeholders, including primary care physicians, specialists, nurses, and allied healthcare professionals.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2021

While COVID-19 has exacerbated the shortage of nurses in the US, the shortage precedes the pandemic by decades. Yet, entry-level nursing programs are insufficient to meet the schooling demands for new nurses, especially as they continue losing experienced faculty. The Nursing Shortage “Cognitive Dissonance”.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The value-based care model is gaining momentum in the healthcare industry, and it is not hard to see why. After all, value-based care – which rewards healthcare providers with incentives based on the quality of care they provide to patients – has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and reduces costs for patients.

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Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 17, 2022

The National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes is committed to improving the quality of care for individuals with dementia living in nursing homes. of long-stay nursing home residents were receiving an antipsychotic medication. In 2011Q4, 23.9% to a national prevalence of 14.4%

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2021

Specifically, the study found that although nursing home residents only represent 2% of the Medicare population, they accounted for 22% of all COVID-19 cases among Medicare members. Among dual-eligible patients, those in nursing homes were 10 times more likely than those in the community to be diagnosed with COVID-19.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2024

OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to home care. THE PROBLEM This issue stemmed largely from gaps in continuous care during transitions between these settings.

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p3care

MARCH 23, 2021

Especially after the pandemic, the healthcare industry needs to be more careful with technology use and resource consumption. Doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals do not want to indulge in manual paperwork. We can also observe reduced care expenses, which is great for QPP MIPS reporting.

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p3care

MAY 31, 2024

Performance Improvement ACOs do not restrict themselves to certain defined goals instead, they take a holistic approach focusing on overall patient outcomes, cost efficiency, and quality of care. This becomes a specific reason for comprehensible improvements in patient care.

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Quality of Care Doctors Medicare Patient Experience 130

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 16, 2024

RJ Frasca, VP at Shield Screening The nursing profession is facing an unprecedented crisis, with burnout reaching critical levels due to a severe shortage of nurses. million nurses. Nurses are increasingly advocating for more manageable nurse-to-patient ratios as understaffing continues to strain hospital systems.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 13, 2023

Parkway Shenton, which operates over 50 GP clinics across the country, taps into Speedoc's capabilities in home healthcare to offer the option to deliver care within the comfort of their patients' homes.

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Healthcare Primary Care Quality of Care Doctors 158

Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 2, 2022

“The purpose of this primer is to provide updated information to the patient safety community about the challenges of ensuring the safe care of older adults in Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes (NHs) associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, and the federal and state efforts taken to mitigate these challenges.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 4, 2022

Care coordination is becoming increasingly important in U.S. healthcare for a variety of reasons, including the increased use of value-based care models, the behavioral care shortage and a boom in home healthcare. Medicare spends nearly $60 billion on post-acute care annually. That is changing.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

"Before each visit, nurses or medical assistants initiate the session, talking with patients to gather the information needed to inform the session. "We integrated the Amwell platform with our Epic EHR to provide a more seamless experience for patients and our provider teams," Fu noted.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 1, 2024

Effective regulation of AI in healthcare requires appropriate authority and a thorough understanding of AI’s impact on patient care, with regulatory frameworks aimed at encouraging innovation, ensuring equitable access and addressing disparities in quality of care.

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Baird Group

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Nurses are the backbone of healthcare delivery and the current nursing shortage has given nurses everywhere a unique gift. Now, more than ever, nurses have the freedom to choose when, where, and how much they want to work. A few months ago, I spoke with a new graduate who made it clear that she could get a job anywhere.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Doctors and nurses are happy. We didn't want to spend an incredible amount of time searching for patient histories and past results so we could ensure the quality of care we were providing was at the top of the spectrum. It's not just the doctors, nurses, caregivers. It has succeeded. Patients are happy.

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Hospitals Patient Experience Nursing Doctors 192

Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 7, 2022

Nursing homes play a unique dual role in the long-term care continuum, serving as a place where people receive needed health care and a place they call home. The 1986 Institute of Medicine report Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes identified a range of challenges to the quality of care in nursing homes.

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Nursing Quality of Care Quality Assurance Home Care 52

Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Government Accountability Office has posted this January 2022 Health Care Capsule to “summarize past GAO reports on concerns about nursing home quality of care, consumer information, and COVID-19. Nursing homes have experienced a disproportionately high number of COVID-19 deaths when compared to the general U.S.

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Nursing Quality of Care Prevention Accountability 52

Health Populi

JULY 17, 2023

Most patients, nurses and doctors believe that health insurance plans reduce access to health care which contributes to clinician burnout and increases costs, based on three surveys conducted by Morning Consult for the American Hospital Association (AHA).

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Doctors Nursing Quality of Care Population Health 62

Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Medicare-certified home health agencies are increasingly facing ownership changes, raising concerns about health care spending, workforce and quality of care. According to Hou, the most concerning finding was the reduction in staffing levels, down 17% for nurses and 26% for home health aides.

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Physical Therapy Quality of Care Medicare Nursing 83

Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 27, 2022

On October 21, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced changes to its Special Focus Facility (SFF) program, including new steps to address nursing home facilities that fail to graduate from the SFF program in a timely manner, or “yo-yo” back into non-compliance after graduating from the SFF program. FOOTNOTES. [1]

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The data, when combined with census information, can then be used to report on the level of staff in each nursing home, as well as employee turnover and tenure, which can impact the quality of care delivered. Another website is Payroll Based Journal Daily Nurse and Non-Nurse Staffing.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Because of the distance barrier to care and recognizing that the value telemedicine can provide to achieve the Triple Aim goals of improving specialist access, quality of care and affordability, Children's Mercy Kansas City began to identify telemedicine and technology options to help treat patients across the regions served.

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Telemedicine Nursing Quality of Care Healthcare 201

Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It was not our intention to debate the financial impact of our recommendations or where nursing staff will come from, given the current huge workforce shortage issues. We stand for quality care in nursing homes. The impact of disparities in nursing homes was also evident before the pandemic.

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Nursing Quality of Care Home Care Medicare 52

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2024

10, Thomas Doyle, general counsel for the Oregon Nurses Association, a labor union, wrote to the director of OHA. One comment from Paul Goldberg, a retired director of the Oregon Nurses Association, expressed concern about Providences motivation for pursuing the deal. Nearly all of the submitted comments are opposed to the transaction.

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Hospice Care Nursing Regulations Home Care 80

Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2022

LTCCC (Long Term Care Community Coalition) posted this alert on March 3, 2022: “Federal requirements mandate that nursing homes have sufficient staff, with the appropriate competencies to meet the clinical, emotional, and psychosocial needs of every resident. Total Nurse Staff HPRD, incl. million nursing home residents.

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Nursing Quality of Care Accountability Regulations 52

Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 28, 2023

CMS will publish the Nursing Home Affiliated Entity Performance Measures dataset on data.cms.com. These data combine inspection, staffing, quality, and other performance metrics across affiliated entities. Affiliated entity names and ID numbers will be published in the ownership sections for each facility on Nursing Home Care Compare.

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Nursing Home Care Measurable Quality Medicare 52

Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

It is well-established that longer patient wait times negatively impact patient satisfaction , specifically regarding patient confidence (in the provider) and perceived quality of care. Integrate virtual care services like telehealth/telemedicine. Offer hassle-free online appointment scheduling and rescheduling.

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Private Practices Patient Experience Urgent Care Telemedicine 246

Home Health Care

JUNE 13, 2022

With over 400,000 data points, a new study from LeadingAge could give home-based care providers a new roadmap on how to optimize performance. LeadingAge also found there’s a correlation between an increase in telehealth usage and an increase of quality of care ratings. Driving home health referrals. Source: LeadingAge.

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Quality of Care Population Health Nursing Accountability 114

Briggs Healthcare

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

CMS provides oversight of the nation’s over 15,000 nursing homes that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. This includes ensuring that homes have met certain quality standards. Several studies have shown that the quality of care provided at a nursing home can be related to its ownership.

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Nursing Quality of Care Medicaid Medicare 52

Home Health Care

JULY 5, 2022

Hospital readmissions are regularly viewed as an indicator of the quality of care patients receive. On average, a hospital’s surrounding area in the study contained over 620 SNF beds, about 25 primary care physicians, 49 nurse practitioners, 19 licensed nursing home beds and about four home health agencies per 100,000 residents.

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Hospitals Primary Care Nursing Quality of Care 98

Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 29, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Nursing Home Staffing Study Comprehensive Report – June 2023 was posted this afternoon. The study also explores potential implications for feasibility of increased staffing and costs to nursing homes. million nursing home residents nationwide.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 3, 2022

“CMS is proud to be leading the President’s new initiative to improve the safety and quality of care at the nation’s nursing homes. For months, my team and I have met with industry experts, nursing home workers, resident advocates, and – most importantly – nursing home residents and their family members.

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Quality of Care Nursing Medicaid Healthcare 75

HIT Consultant

MARCH 4, 2024

Ali Morin, MSN, RN-BC, VP of Nursing Informatics at symplr In the ever-changing landscape of healthcare, where tomorrow’s challenges are unpredictable, the need for strategically staffed and crisis-ready hospitals has never been more crucial.

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