Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Families with children feel particularly strapped for the 2021 holiday season: while they will be less likely to reduce holiday spending, one-half are concerned about medical expenses compared with one year ago. Their top line is that hospital margins dropped for a second month as expenses climbed year-over-year, 2020-2021.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Case Facts Mr W, the patient, was a veteran who had been honorably discharged after serving 9 years in the Army, working as a mechanic. He was 64 years old and had a host of medical issues, including diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , and deep vein thrombosis. Dr P was Mr W’s pulmonologist at the VA medical center.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

For inspiration and context, I’ll kick off with Roz Chast’s latest New Yorker cartoon from the February 3rd 2020 issue — Strangers in the Night, taking place in a Duane Reade pharmacy. Roz really channels the scene in front of the pharmacy counter, from Q-tips to vitamins and tea.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

History and Assessment Mr. Salzo’s medical history is significant for childhood asthma and hypertension. Mr. Salzo is triaged, assessed by an ED nurse, examined by an ED provider, and admitted to a Medical-Surgical Unit. The patient appears anxious and restless, requiring redirection as the triage nurse processes him. and HgB- 7.2

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Relias

MARCH 1, 2023

Increase patient volume “The reason to be in a preferred network, from an SNF’s perspective, is pure volume [of patients],” said Phyllis Wojtusik, RN, Executive Vice President of Health System Solutions for Real Time Medical Systems, during a Relias webinar. So volume is very important to them.” Patients always have a choice,” she noted.

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 19, 2024

million from March 2020 to February 2021. Today, she is an assistant professor at UMass Chan Medical School and its Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing in Worcester, Massachusetts , and a senior telehealth consultant with Blue Cirrus Consulting, Greenville, South Carolina. Numbers skyrocketed from 2.1

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A recent Relias webinar on HHVBP indicated that the total Medicare spending reduction in the program’s first five years (2016-2020) resulted in a $942.2 When determining improvement scores, the baseline year will be 2019 as opposed to 2020 due to the potential effects of COVID-19 distorting the data. Discharged to community.

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Relias

AUGUST 8, 2023

PAC training directly impacts the lives of the patient PAC services provide an extra level of assistance for people discharged from acute hospitals. Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in March 2020 and has been updated with new content. Support positive relationships between staff and those they serve.

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Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

They tried to convince us, sucked into this bullying blackmail that thankfully, I remained mostly shielded from in that year, mostly due to the concoction of medications I was put on. It was when I was finally diagnosed with a rare disease In November 2020, 10.5 And I know I am not the only one to feel this either.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

Amidst bullish forecasts for the promise of hospital-to-home discharges, the ability for many patients to make this migration would be a difficult bridge to cross. Patients who reported at least one SDoH concern were less likely to complete a physician follow-up visit post-discharge than patients who reported no SDOH concerns.

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Relias

JULY 14, 2022

is more than double the rate of 10 other high-income countries, according to a 2020 report from The Commonwealth Fund. Yet pregnancy-related deaths due to mental health comprised over 10% of maternal deaths in 2020. When both social and mental health issues are present, risks multiply.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2020

“Covid-19 exposes America’s racial health gap,” asserts The Economist , the weekly news magazine based in London, UK, in an advanced essay dated 11 April 2020. hospital emergency rooms with symptoms of COVID-19, a greater number of these patients per capita haven’t been discharged from hospitals.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 13, 2022

At the beginning of the war, rural China had very few hospitals, medical supplies, equipment or trained personnel. The Chinese Army Medical Corps was unprepared to care for hundreds of thousands of ill and injured soldiers, much less help a large civilian population. ” (Trojanowski, 2005). ” (Trojanowski, 2005).

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Relias

JULY 20, 2023

Ensuring that behavioral health and medical documentation are in the same system can help integrate and improve care. This would involve putting resources into place prior to discharging the patient — not just checking a box. Collaborative care models can save lives. What is the Birthing-Friendly designation?

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The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

OCR issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on December 10, 2020, that proposed a slew of changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, and a Final Rule is expected to be issued in 2022; however, no date has yet been provided on when the 2022 HIPAA changes will take effect and become enforceable. 21 st Century Cures Act.

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