Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

The median charge for hospitalizing a patient with COVID-19 ranged from $34,662 for people 23 to 30, and $45,683 for people between 51 and 60 years of age, according to FAIR Health’s research brief, Key Characteristics of COVID-19 Patients published July 14th, 2020. Even if that patient did not survive her hospital stay.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 27, 2023

The National Health Service has been criticized for not paying healthcare workers enough for their time, and now some providers are skipping meals just to make sure they have enough money to feed and clothe their children, according to a survey involving several hospital administrators.

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EvidenceCare

MARCH 11, 2024

These measures play a fundamental role in hospital management, financial planning, and patient care optimization. By understanding and leveraging GMLOS and ALOS, hospital executives can improve operational efficiency and patient outcomes. It is the simplest and most commonly used metric for evaluating patient stays.

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Discharges Admissions Patient Satisfaction Hospital 130

Medical Economics

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Patients hospitalized by physicians with higher admission rates are likelier to be discharged within 24 hours but no less likely to die.

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EvidenceCare

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In case you aren’t familiar, the Two-Midnight Rule mandates that a patient’s hospital stay must span at least two midnights to qualify for inpatient status, directly influencing reimbursement rates and compliance requirements. In the MA Final Rule, however, CMS explicitly states that the two-midnight presumption does not apply to MA plans.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Patients may develop a disease that requires admission to the hospital, mostly because of lung problems, such as the need for oxygen. Indirect organ damage is common in medical conditions that are severe enough to warrant admission to the hospital. The disease might affect other organs—either directly or indirectly.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 19, 2023

Deliberate practice during internship is probably even more important today than it was in the days before duty hour restrictions and admission caps. What led him or her to the hospital or caused another doctor to admit the patient? Ask yourself what you are doing to solve the problem that led to (or have crept up since) admission.

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Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Deliberate practice during internship is probably even more important today than it was in the days before duty hour restrictions and admission caps. What led him or her to the hospital? Remind yourself why the patient is in the hospital every day. However, you can learn more while doing if your practice is deliberate.

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Mobius MD

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By predicting admissions and discharge patterns, AI helps prevent overcrowding and reduces wait times. Optimizing the Supply Chain Like patient flow management, hospitals and clinics rely on a steady flow of medical supplies and medications to provide effective care. Yet supply chain disruptions remain a common challenge.

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Guideway Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

Advancing these efforts, the BPCI Advanced model introduces a consolidated retrospective payment system that addresses services within a 90-day period following discharge or outpatient procedures. Collaborating with community-based resources allows hospitals participating in the BPCI to more adeptly aid those who are most at risk.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In June 2021, Montefiore was evaluating performance improvement initiatives to enhance patient experiences and alleviate flow challenges and decided to open a discharge lounge. The idea of a discharge lounge isn’t new, but being assisted by the clinician with whom patients just bonded is. Why did you become a nurse?

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The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

All QI projects can be divided into three categories: Category 1: Supported by financial incentives Category 2: Neutral to financial incentives Category 3: Opposed by financial incentives Determining which category a potential project will fall into is important for predicting how much support from hospital leadership a QI project will have.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

JANUARY 20, 2025

Improving Access and Outcomes Using Success, Effort, Emotion, and Trust Metrics A nurse enters a hospital room for a routine blood draw. Hospitals with higher patient experience scores report a 161% better net margin than competitors with low scores. [1] She greets the patient, explains why she is there, and begins the task.

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Patient Experience Patient Satisfaction Hospital Follow-Up 52

Connect Care Bytes Blog

MAY 1, 2024

Dictate any pre-launch admission or transfer notes Launch 8 inpatient facilities are supported for dictation of admission histories, transfer notes, consultation reports and discharge summaries. The same applies for Consults performed in the coming week for patients expected to still be in-hospital post-launch.

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Accepted Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

For this section of our Med School Admissions: What You Need to Know To Get Accepted series, I’ll provide a brief rundown of what happens after you graduate from medical school. By your final year, you can admit, treat, and discharge patients on your own and do some procedures without supervision.

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Accepted Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

Having worked in admissions for over two decades, I have read thousands of activity descriptions for medical school and related healthcare fields. Other applicants fill out only a few of their activity descriptions, leaving the admissions committees to wonder what they did with the rest of their time. A nonprofit organization?

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The nurse in the Medical-Surgical Unit suspects worsening respiratory distress, noticing that Mr. Salzo has become increasingly anxious and is moving about restlessly in bed during the admission assessment. Oxygen therapy via nasal cannula 2 L O2 is placed on the patient, and the nurse contacts the SWAT RN, who arrives in less than 5 minutes.

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 19, 2024

Immediate Access to Clinical Support Virtual nurses regularly assist with tasks that do not require physical proximity to the patient, such as patient-family education, completing admission and discharge tasks, and participating in two-person verification processes.

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Relias

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Utilizing data from the most recent three calendar years, the PEPPER offers providers specific Medicare data statistics for discharges or services that may be vulnerable to improper payments. Long‐term acute care hospitals. Partial hospitalization programs. Short-term acute care hospitals. Critical access hospitals.

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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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CareerStep

MAY 27, 2024

Institutional, or hospital pharmacy, involves less public interaction. Working in a hospital pharmacy may involve going on rounds with the doctor or medical students if the particular hospital does rounds, according to Jesie Davenport , CPhT, pharm tech academic lead, and instructor.

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Health Prime

JANUARY 10, 2024

These descriptors are an essential resource that hospitals, medical practices, health plans, and other CPT users can incorporate into English-language documents, such as insurance forms, price sheets, medical records, patient portals, and more.

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Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

I had collapsed into a heap on the cold, hospital floor, falling unconscious and suffering a seizure. I tried to make out the quivering outline of another hospital bed opposite me. Age 23, I went through another long eight weeks of my life confined to a hospital bed, all hope at loose end. For God’s sake , get UP !”

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Arkenea

JUNE 27, 2024

Large and mid-sized hospitals may easily burden the expenses, but what about the small practices? Acute Care Acute care EMR software is largely used in hospitals and other inpatient care facilities. Additionally, they blend well with large healthcare organizations like hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and critical care facilities.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

PV1 – Patient Visit: Contains information about the patient’s hospital stay, referred physicians, and locations. In addition, medical institutions can efficiently collect and process patient information, such as medical billing, admission, and treatment plans.

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Setting Sights

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Experiencing both sides of the hospital curtain; as a patient, and a medical student. If that isn’t enough to choke back the tears in our tracks, a hard read I found, whilst scrolling from my own hospital bed, then I don’t know what else there is to say. I was thus told by Hospital A to go elsewhere. Nothing else.

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Hospital Follow-Up Admissions Medication 52

Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In emergency care settings, care coordination can involve immediate care, hospital admission, discharge planning, follow-up care, and post-acute care. It can help reduce unnecessary hospitalizations, readmissions, and ED visits and improve patient outcomes, satisfaction, and safety.

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Southern Careers Institute

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Hospitals Hospitals are bustling hubs of healthcare activity, and medical assistants are an essential part of the team. In hospital settings, medical assistants often work in various departments, including emergency rooms, outpatient clinics, and surgical units.

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Ciox

JULY 20, 2023

By identifying patients with complex needs or those at risk for re-admission, healthcare providers can focus their efforts on high-risk patients, improving care coordination and reducing unnecessary hospitalizations. Predictive analytics can also be used to optimize care management and resource allocation.

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Arkenea

JULY 2, 2024

CDA The HL7 CDA (Clinical Document Architecture) is an XML-based standard that offers a structure or format for sharing clinical data such as progress notes, discharge summaries, and consultation notes. HL7 Messages are used to transfer healthcare data between disparate systems, each sending information about events such as patient admission.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

In the wake of the pandemic and growing consumer preferences, the hospital-to-home movement is gaining traction among health systems. 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.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

In the midst of growing inpatient admissions and test results for COVID-19, Congress is working as I write this post to finalize a round of legislation to help Americans with the costs-of-living and (hopefully) health care in a national, mandated, clarifying way. Hospital costs could average over $20,000, the report calculated.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 15, 2025

I was diagnosed with ITP, admitted to the hospital, and started on IVIg. Many weekends I stayed overnight in the hospital for my infusions. By the time I was discharged, I had lost about 15 lbs of muscle. The ITP proved refractory. For each infusion, I sat in the clinic for five to eight hours.

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Follow-Up Hospital Discharges Tests 323

Connect Care Bytes Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

New "Medical Readiness" Button in Transition Planning Tools Connect Care provides a set of integrated supports that can help clinicians anticipate and plan for a patient's discharge from hospital. Connect Care provides discharge planning tools that can facilitate determinations about when a patient is medically ready for discharge.

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We Care Online

JANUARY 15, 2025

Health Unit Coordinators perform crucial administrative functions in hospitals, clinics, and healthcare facilities, freeing up medical staff to spend more time with patients. Managing admissions, transfers and discharges. Common tasks include: Managing patient records. Arranging appointments for tests and procedures.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Dictate any pre-launch admission or transfer notes Launch 9 inpatient facilities are supported for dictation of admission histories, transfer notes, consultation reports and discharge summaries. The same applies for Consults performed in the coming week for patients expected to still be in-hospital post-launch.

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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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