Connect Care Bytes Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Each session will cover the same content, including Admission to Long-Term Care/Continuing Care, Offsite Dialysis Appointments, and Leave of Absence to Acute Care with Return. The week of March 11 –15 includes 1-hour Patient Movement Fundamentals readiness sessions, offered on three separate days.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Support Cutover Activities Key for attending physicians, nurse practitioners and trainees anticipating Launch 9 inpatient and/or outpatient launch is work to make sure that essential information is ready for loading or linking into the Connect Care clinical information system before launch.

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Acute Care Long Term Care Documentation Transfers 40

Connect Care Bytes Blog

MAY 10, 2024

Launch 8 Hot Topics Day 1 and 2 (CPOE and verbal/telephone orders; Launch 8 workflow updates; prescriber support) Day 3 (find/identify patients with Medical Record Number) Day 4 (IFTs, IFT from ED to IT bed; external vs. internal lab and DI orders; Goals of Care and Green Sleeve) Day 5 (Public Health immunizations in acute care; Continuing Care admission (..)

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Acute Care Admissions Scheduling Communication 40

Connect Care Bytes Blog

APRIL 26, 2024

Support Cutover Activities Key for attending physicians, nurse practitioners and trainees anticipating Launch 8 inpatient and/or outpatient launch is work to make sure that essential information is ready for loading or linking into the Connect Care clinical information system before launch.

Acute Care 40

Acute Care Long Term Care Documentation Transfers 40

Relias

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Under the new CoPs, if therapy services establish home health eligibility, OT is included in the care plan, and no skilled nursing care is designated, the start of care visit can be done by an OT instead of having to wait for a nurse, PT, or SLP to be available.

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Mildred Elley

AUGUST 8, 2022

There are many opportunities for LPNs to work in acute care facilities; long term care facilities ,clinics, medical offices, schools and group homes dependent upon which state and neighborhood you reside in. This varies per school, but you will always need a high school diploma or a GED to attend.

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Vital Signs Medical Terminology Admissions Follow-Up 52

Mildred Elley

AUGUST 8, 2022

There are many opportunities for LPNs to work in acute care facilities; long term care facilities ,clinics, medical offices, schools and group homes dependent upon which state and neighborhood you reside in. This varies per school, but you will always need a high school diploma or a GED to attend.

Vital Signs 52

Vital Signs Medical Terminology Admissions Follow-Up 52

Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Undercoded Complex Hospital Admissions. Coders are challenged to select the codes that best convey the reason for admission. With the shift to value-based care and risk adjustment models, there’s a need for coding that gives a complete clinical picture of the patient.

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Documentation Medical Coding Admissions Follow-Up 52

Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Undercoded Complex Hospital Admissions. Coders are challenged to select the codes that best convey the reason for admission. With the shift to value-based care and risk adjustment models, there’s a need for coding that gives a complete clinical picture of the patient.

Documentation 52

Documentation Medical Coding Admissions Follow-Up 52

Relias

JUNE 1, 2023

7 – Streamline payer notifications of admission Banner Health’s revenue cycle staff sent faxes 20 to 100 times a day to notify health plans about a patient’s admission. “A small amount of education on these important points can make all the difference,” said Budri. About 30% of payers require these notifications.

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Documentation Admissions Follow-Up Scheduling 52

Relias

JUNE 1, 2023

7 – Streamline payer notifications of admission Banner Health’s revenue cycle staff sent faxes 20 to 100 times a day to notify health plans about a patient’s admission. “A small amount of education on these important points can make all the difference,” said Budri. About 30% of payers require these notifications.

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Documentation Admissions Follow-Up Scheduling 52

Relias

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Pay attention to your record on patients having urgent, unplanned emergency room visits or hospital readmissions within the first 60 days of care by your agency. It is important that patients released from your agency’s care are positioned to avoid hospital admissions for potentially preventable conditions within the first 30 days of release.

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Follow-Up Discharges Hospital Admissions 52

Relias

APRIL 18, 2022

Knowing how to correctly document wound care assessments and actions taken will protect the clinician and the organization. Therefore, accurate assessment on admission is crucial. Gaps in assessment, prevention, and care of wounds can put your organization at risk of unnecessary expenses and lawsuits.

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Documentation Certification Hospital Admissions 52

Relias

JANUARY 30, 2024

The authors also cited the overprescription of drugs, unnecessary hospital admissions, and unnecessary testing as examples of healthcare professionals’ attempts to keep patients happy and avoid conflict. While this behavior may boost satisfaction ratings, it can also jeopardize quality of care.

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Patient Satisfaction Patient Experience Scheduling Hospital 52

Relias

JANUARY 8, 2024

The physicians also questioned unnecessary hospital admissions, the over-prescription of drugs, and unnecessary testing as further examples of healthcare professionals’ attempts to keep patients happy while potentially compromising care quality.

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Patient Satisfaction Patient Experience Hospital Scheduling 52

The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

Long-term complications, including dependence, overdose, and addiction, further drive profitability through repeat admissions, extended care, and emergency visits. Policymakers, employers, and healthcare leaders must act now to shift towards opioid-free acute care and long-term solutions.

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Medication Insurance Hospital Acute Care 70

Relias

MAY 1, 2022

Understanding the legal implications of gaps in care can help protect all involved: physicians, nurses, other caregivers, and healthcare administrators and leaders. Carefully assessing on admission. Not correctly identifying or describing wounds present on admission. Keeping accurate documentation. Costly Pressure Injuries.

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Documentation Admissions Acute Care Communication 98

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

A model’s accuracy is ideally assessed by comparing what the model predicted would happen with what actually happened, for example, predicted deaths following admission to hospital compared with actual deaths. We highlight a few important considerations when reading about the latest prediction model in your clinical area.

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Admissions Diagnostics Vital Signs Acute Care 147

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, more hospitals were piloting and planning to move inpatient acute care to certain patients’ home when that made clinical and economic sense. motivating the move of patients from acute care settings to their homes where patients were found to be improving.

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Hospital Acute Care Patient Experience Medication 77

Arkenea

JUNE 27, 2024

Based on Design Settings Types of EMRs based on design settings are of two distinct types – ambulatory and acute care EMRs. Acute Care Acute care EMR software is largely used in hospitals and other inpatient care facilities.

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Acute Care EHR / EMR Documentation Hospital 52

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

A model’s accuracy is ideally assessed by comparing what the model predicted would happen with what actually happened, for example, predicted deaths following admission to hospital compared with actual deaths. We highlight a few important considerations when reading about the latest prediction model in your clinical area.

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Admissions Diagnostics Vital Signs Acute Care 100

Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Hence, the SWAT RN is a nursing role that is instrumental in the promotion of the nursing process and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s 2019 Clinical Judgment Measurement Model within the acute care setting, as they work collaboratively with bedside nurse leaders to facilitate positive patient outcomes.

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Triage Diagnostics Collaboration Vital Signs 105

Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Emergency care Coordination of emergency care helps ensure that patients who come to the emergency department receive timely, appropriate, and high-quality care and are safely and effectively transitioned to the next level of needed care, whether it is inpatient, outpatient, or home-based.

Care Plan 52

Care Plan Patient Satisfaction Acute Care Collaboration 52

Accepted Blog

JULY 2, 2024

Show Summary In this episode of Admissions Straight Talk , host Linda Abraham interviews Yael Bruk, a recent graduate from Binghamton University who was accepted to multiple medical schools. Show Notes Thanks for joining me for this, the 583rd episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Yael, welcome to Admissions Straight Talk. [1:57]

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Admissions Follow-Up Medication Tests 98

Relias

MARCH 13, 2023

Include all data points in a machine-readable file Your hospital must list your standard charges for all procedures — any item or service a patient could receive during an inpatient admission or outpatient visit — in a single machine-readable file that is easily accessible on your public website.

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Hospital Documentation Billing Insurance 52

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

If wed been able to pick this up a week earlier, we could have prevented the acute admission to the hospital. So Congress: this is the real world for patients, now consumers spending more out of pocket for their health care, seeking greater engagement in their medical care, ongoing well-being, and longevity.

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Hospital Acute Care Admissions Medication 71

The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2025

There was also statisticallysignificant decline (-3.9%) in revenue per adjusted admission, which casts doubt upon the ‘mergers lead to higher prices’ hypothesis. Compared to the Health Planning statutes target of 4 acute care beds per thousand, today the US is at 2.3 beds per thousand.

Hospital 83

Hospital Insurance Admissions Acute Care 83

The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) also published an interoperability rule in March 2020 that applies to Medicare- and Medicaid-participating short-term acute care hospitals, long-term care hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, children’s hospitals, cancer hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs).

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HIPAA Business Associate Appointments Transfers 126