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. Being an LPN includes transferring patients and providing direct care which can be physically demanding.

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Relias

AUGUST 9, 2023

Engage your employees A huge part of keeping your organization compliant is making sure your staff is doing the same: completing their annual mandatories, utilizing the most current practices, following policies and procedures, and so on. You assign your staff member an assessment that will test their knowledge of job-specific skills.

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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.

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Care Plan Patient Satisfaction Acute Care Collaboration 52

Healthcare Law Insights blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

A transaction in which the parties meet the size of entity test is subject to reporting if it has one or more of the following characteristics: The proposed fair market value of the transaction exceeds $25 million and concerns the provision of health care services.

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Arkenea

DECEMBER 2, 2024

According to a report published by Chime, 83 percent of acute care organizations stated high use of patient portals by users in 2021, as compared to 74 percent in 2020. Enhanced Patient Care Patients can get annoyed by long waiting hours and freeing up time for appointments.

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Guideway Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative, particularly its Advanced version (BPCI-A), serves as one prominent example among these new payment models with an emphasis on improving Medicares capacity for promoting more efficient resource usage and enhancing collaboration amongst various medical practitioners.

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Relias

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Tactics included providing sterile syringes and pipes, distributing the overdose-reversal medication naloxone, and encouraging the use of test strips to detect potentially lethal fentanyl or xylazine (“tranq”). By focusing foremost on reducing harm rather than just restricting use, it made strides in lowering overdose-related deaths.

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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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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. Professional development opportunities also increase employee engagement.

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Patient Satisfaction Patient Experience Hospital Scheduling 52

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

Step back to consider the patient journey and continuum of care, from lab tests and radiology imaging to the nurse conversation, the physician exam, and follow-up with a specialist or nutritionist for food-as-medicine counsel. That’s just a quick snapshot of a nurse-patient encounter.

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Unit Organization and Environment Collaboration Documentation Acute Care 71

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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