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Navigating the Complexities of Social Admissions in Healthcare

EvidenceCare

JANUARY 12, 2024

Social Admission vs. Medical Necessity In healthcare, the term “social admission” signifies instances where patients find themselves admitted to a hospital primarily for non-medical reasons. These can range from the need for custodial care to a desire to avoid personal challenges.

Admissions

Admissions Documentation Outpatient Care Hospital

Prediction explainer: what should clinicians consider when considering a new clinical prediction model?

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The Vox headline was “Mind-reading technology has arrived”, although the study had just seven participants and the error rate in the three test participants was 0.92 Clinician preferences for clinical prediction model design in acute care settings: A case study of early warning score implementation.

Admissions

Admissions Diagnostics Vital Signs Acute Care

Getting Into Med School Isn’t Easy…But This Applicant Did It! [Episode 583]

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]

Admissions

Admissions Follow-Up Medication Tests

Prediction explainer: what should clinicians consider when considering a new clinical prediction model?

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The Vox headline was “Mind-reading technology has arrived”, although the study had just seven participants and the error rate in the three test participants was 0.92 Clinician preferences for clinical prediction model design in acute care settings: A case study of early warning score implementation.

Admissions

Admissions Diagnostics Vital Signs Acute Care

SWAT RNs: Supporting Bedside Leaders with Clinical Judgment

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.

Triage

Triage Diagnostics Collaboration Vital Signs

What Will You Learn In LPN Classes?

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

Vital Signs Medical Terminology Admissions Follow-Up

What Will You Learn In LPN Classes?

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

Vital Signs Medical Terminology Admissions Follow-Up

Care Coordination: The Key to Improving Patient Outcomes

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

Care Plan Patient Satisfaction Acute Care Collaboration

How to Keep Patients Satisfied — and Raise Your Patient Satisfaction Scores

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.

Patient Satisfaction

Patient Satisfaction Patient Experience Scheduling Hospital

Maximizing Healthcare Reimbursement Through Higher Patient Satisfaction Scores

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.

Patient Satisfaction

Patient Satisfaction Patient Experience Hospital Scheduling

Does the Hospital Price Transparency Rule Increase Your Audit Risk?

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.

Hospital

Hospital Documentation Billing Insurance

“Hospital Mergers Kill”: An Economists’ Exercise in Reality Distortion

The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2025

Failing the Test of Real World Plausibility It is difficult to know where to begin to unravel this complex web of associations. Though this proposition needs empirical testing, I believe that most communities would willingly trade a 1.2% The biggest puzzle is the magnification of impact of a 1.2% beds per thousand.

Hospital

Hospital Insurance Admissions Acute Care

New HIPAA Regulations in 2022-2023

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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Navigating the Complexities of Social Admissions in Healthcare

Prediction explainer: what should clinicians consider when considering a new clinical prediction model?

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Getting Into Med School Isn’t Easy…But This Applicant Did It! [Episode 583]

Prediction explainer: what should clinicians consider when considering a new clinical prediction model?

SWAT RNs: Supporting Bedside Leaders with Clinical Judgment

What Will You Learn In LPN Classes?

What Will You Learn In LPN Classes?

Care Coordination: The Key to Improving Patient Outcomes

How to Keep Patients Satisfied — and Raise Your Patient Satisfaction Scores

Maximizing Healthcare Reimbursement Through Higher Patient Satisfaction Scores

Does the Hospital Price Transparency Rule Increase Your Audit Risk?

“Hospital Mergers Kill”: An Economists’ Exercise in Reality Distortion

New HIPAA Regulations in 2022-2023

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