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Creating a Culture of Quality: Strategies for Hospital Leaders

Readiness Rounds

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? Mentation: Preventing, identifying, treating, and managing cognitive impairments, including dementia, depression, and delirium.

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How to Improve Your VBP Scores and Boost Medicare Payments

Home Health Care

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. The program is the process by which a home-based care provider measures its quality metrics. This makes it a highly effective approach. So it could be dyspnea.

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Demystifying VBC Contracting: Key Considerations for Quality & Data Success

HIT Consultant

Elissa Toder, MBA, VP of Quality Improvement Strategy & Solutions at Reveleer In the ongoing transition to value-based care (VBC), provider contracting poses challenges for health plans and providers. If the provider successfully delivers care and prevents complications or errors, they keep a portion of the savings.

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States Build Capacity to Address Maternal Mortality through Policy Innovations

NASHP

from maternal-related causes , with more than 80 percent of these deaths being preventable. HFS has named maternal and child health as one of its five quality strategy pillars and requires its Medicaid MCOs to report results by race, ethnicity, and geography. Over 800 women die each year in the U.S.

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

Readiness Rounds

Early Identification of Issues: Proactive rounding facilitates the early detection of potential problems, enabling timely interventions that prevent immediate issues from escalating into major complications. Without such a system, these concerns may go unnoticed or unresolved, leading to ongoing dissatisfaction and compromised care quality.

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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. CMS 416 preventative services. Fluoride varnish. Tobacco cessation counseling.