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Navigating Medicare Advantage: Strategies for Hospitals to Tackle Growing Challenges

EvidenceCare

billion on bonus payments in 2023 for four- or five-star health plans – a 30% increase from the prior year. Say what you’re looking for and what the risk of discharge is in every single progress note. For Star Ratings specifically, CMS spent $12.8 It’s going to get more difficult to achieve four or five stars in the future.

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Burn Care for Underserved Communities: A Certified Burn Nurse’s Perspective

Minority Nurse

Introduced in the fall of 2023, CBRN certification spans the entire burn care continuum including prehospital care and initial management, acute and critical care, post-acute rehabilitation, outpatient and community care, and aftercare and reintegration, as well as injury prevention, education, and psychosocial patient and family support.

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Home Health Agencies Face Growing Competition as Value-Based Purchasing Expands Nationally

Relias

As nationwide expansion begins in 2023, the program is expected to save $3.376 billion in the next five years (2023-2027). Waiting until 2023 may put your agency at a disadvantage compared to your peers. CMS indicated it will provide agencies with their benchmarks and achievement thresholds prior to 2023.

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Why Care Coordination Is Important for Home Health and Hospice Agencies

Relias

Under the first performance year of VBP in 2023, home health agencies will be scored in part on the patient’s perception of their communication and team discussion.” Assessing communication and collaboration. As part of discharge planning. In broad terms, it’s care management through teamwork.

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National Patient Safety Goals Depend on Good Communication

Relias

For 2023, its list of patient safety goals for hospitals includes the following: Identify patients correctly. Communicating clearly about medication requirements during transitions of care — either from one hospital setting to another or during a hospital discharge — helps prevent errors. Improve staff communication. Use alarms safely.

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SWAT RNs: Supporting Bedside Leaders with Clinical Judgment

Minority Nurse

Having identified an early condition decline, bedside nurse leaders working in various clinical settings collaboratively work with SWAT RNs to promptly stabilize and prevent patient injury and death. Case Presentation Bernard Salzo is a 38-year-old male employed as a carpenter and painter. and HgB- 7.2 and HgB- 7.2

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Alice Benjamin

Minority Nurse

Alice Benjamin is an important nursing leader , and we’re pleased to profile her as part of the Champions of Nursing Diversity Series 2023. Because people go to the hospital, they receive care, get discharged, and then they’re in the community with whatever resources they have. So I did a lot of bridging the gap.