Home Health Care

JANUARY 27, 2023

Curating a specific plan based on a home health provider’s needs, deficiencies and vulnerabilities is key to having successful Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) programs. Broadly, QAPI refers to any kind of auditing or quality metric standards a home health agency hopes to abide by.

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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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NCQA

JULY 31, 2024

Network adequacy standards vary from state to state, as do the systems state regulators use to ensure compliance with those standards. We are hopeful that developing and deploying multiple measures of behavioral health network adequacy can improve access and quality of care,” says Seibert.

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NCQA

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Goal 4: Ensure adequate resources to enforce existing laws and build systems of accountability that explicitly focus on eliminating health care inequities and advancing health equity. Many health equity laws and regulations are underused, and enforcement agencies lack the resources to address complaints.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 30, 2024

The right partner can also be an asset going forward, offering access to capital markets or advising in areas such as IT, recruiting, or quality assurance to capture growth or implement necessary investments. These organizations often have similar objectives regarding employees, quality of care and access to care.

Home Care 57

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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. HHSC Uniform Managed Care Manual.” [30]

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NASHP

MAY 8, 2023

29 State health policy leaders may consider regulation a barrier to collecting race and ethnicity data in their health equity program development. 31 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) also prohibits discrimination against protected persons in health care. Source: Cara James et al.,

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