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Navigating Medicare Advantage: Strategies for Hospitals to Tackle Growing Challenges

EvidenceCare

In this blog, we’ll explore the key takeaways from their conversation and offer actionable strategies hospitals can implement to address these challenges. Every day, in every note, say why this patient can’t go home yet. Say what you’re looking for and what the risk of discharge is in every single progress note.

Hospital 130
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Patients Allegedly Sleeping in Tents Due to Overcrowding

Scrubs

The union alleges that management is keeping patients in hallways and other areas that aren’t meant for patient beds. And the nurses said they “are deeply concerned about eroding patient care conditions and the lack of patient privacy and dignity.” This makes it difficult to navigate the facility.

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Rehumanizing the Patient Experience

Minority Nurse

We wait to be discharged. ” If you’re waiting to be discharged from the hospital, what time you’ll be able to leave is anyone’s guess since one hand often doesn’t know what the other hand is doing. Being in patient limbo is a terrible experience. We wait to see the provider.

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How BPCI Enhances Patient Experience and Lowers Costs: A Comprehensive Guide

Guideway Care

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. It enhances coordination between providers while motivating them toward comprehensive management strategies focused on complete patient care.

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Meet Infusion Nurse Danielle Jenkins

Minority Nurse

This commitment to staying informed has not only led to successful patient outcomes but also motivated me to contribute by applying for a role on the INS board, emphasizing the importance of knowing and implementing best practices for excellent patient care. What has surprised you about being an infusion nurse?

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5 Steps to a Stronger Nursing Resume

Minority Nurse

Deeply committed to providing evidence-based, high-quality, compassionate, cost-effective patient care through constructive multidisciplinary collaboration and quality improvement. Extensive history as a travel nurse lends itself to readily and seamlessly adapting to novel environments, EMRs, teams, and clinical systems.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Elodia Mercier

Minority Nurse

For almost 40 years as the Director of Nursing for Throughput Operations at Montefiore Health System in New York, Elodia Mercier, RNC, MS, has been advancing patient care and creating and defining new roles for fellow nurses and other providers. Over 27 months, Montefiore’s Discharge Lounge received more than 678 patients per month.