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Navigating Medicare Advantage: Strategies for Hospitals to Tackle Growing Challenges

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Written by Carol Howard, VP of Clinical Strategy As Medicare Advantage (MA) continues to grow, hospitals have faced growing challenges in navigating complex policies, payer friction, and financial pressures. These changes will impact how hospitals approach their contracts and denial strategies.

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Congress Introduces Safe Staffing Bill for Hospitals to Protect Nurses

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Nurses have been organizing to get federal lawmakers to pass a bill that would set minimum nurse-patient ratios for every department in every hospital in the country. The bill, known as The Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act, was authored by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) in the Senate and Rep.

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Hospital Could Lose Federal Funding for Burning Sacred Candle

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Department of Health and Human Services for burning a sacred candle in one of its hospital chapels. HHS threatened to take away the system’s Medicaid/Medicare funding if the hospital doesn’t extinguish the flame, and now Saint Francis is suing to keep the candle lit.

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How U.S. Hospitals are Combating Workplace Violence

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However, some hospitals and nurses’ unions are trying to put a stop to the violence. hospitals are trying to change the narrative. The California Nurses Association is lobbying for a law that would give OSHA more authority when it comes to enforcing hospital workplace safety. Sources: [link] [link] [link] The post How U.S.

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Service Dog Stays with His Owner in the Hospital in Adorable Video

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Benson recently spent several days in the hospital after being diagnosed with cardiomyopathy. Benson uploaded images and videos of his unique hospital stay to his Instagram page, @magnusthetherapydog , where it quickly won over the internet. Users commented on how nice it would be to have a dog keep them company in the hospital.

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Nursing Students Create Clothes Drive for Discharged Hospital Patients

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Lots of hospital patients do not have anything to wear when they finally get the all-clear to go home. That’s what happened to a man experiencing homelessness when he went to a hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with a gunshot wound. All these hospitals have graciously taken students into their hospitals for training.

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Hospital Turns to Externs to Fight the Staffing Shortage

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Northwell Health, New York’s largest healthcare provider and private employer, is using students to ease the ongoing worker shortage at all but three of its hospitals. The health system says it’s also a great way to recruit and retain nurses when many hospitals are running low on staff. Casler said. <sic>

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