Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

There are 1,844 rural hospitals operating in the U.S. That number is down by 19 in the 2019 calendar year, the worst year of rural hospital closings seen in the past decade. That hockey-stick growth of closures is shown in the first chart, where 34 rural hospitals shut down in the past 2 years.

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Hospital Diagnostics Documentation Collaboration 109

Minority Nurse

MAY 11, 2023

Angela Purcell, a nurse making a difference, has helped save patients’ sight and taught others how as part of the Flying Eye Hospital. Purcell, now an RN with an Ophthalmic Nurse diploma and the Associate Director of Nursing for Orbis International’s Flying Eye Hospital , began her career as a legal secretary.

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Hospital Collaboration Communication Medication 98

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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Discharges Admissions Hospital Collaboration 276

We Care Online

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Whether you’re just starting your journey or looking to make a change, it’s important to understand the differences between working in hospitals, clinics, and long-term care facilities. Working in a Hospital Hospitals are fast-paced environments that provide a wide range of medical services.

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Long Term Care Hospital Outpatient Care Teamwork 95

Sensible Medicine

JUNE 19, 2023

JAMA-IM published this month a meta-analysis of 15 randomized clinical trials of oseltamivir vs placebo for the prevention of hospitalization due to influenza infection. Their primary efficacy outcome was the first all-cause hospitalization. Another question I hope pops into your mind is the absolute risk of hospitalization.

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Medical History Hospital Admissions Medication 246

Scrubs

MARCH 31, 2023

Terri Tanner, an emergency department nurse at Northwest Hospital in Maryland, remembers trying to talk to a patient who was suffering from an unknown condition during the eleventh hour of their stay. That’s when Rachel Venable, the hospital operations coordinator, stepped in to lend her assistance.

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Tests Diagnostics Collaboration Hospital 237

Scrubs

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Paul collaborates with organizations like RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit specializing in medical debt relief. Medical debt is often seen as unavoidable or inescapable, with the costs of treatments, emergency care, and hospital stays piling up unexpectedly. In this groundbreaking model, St.

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Medication Billing Collaboration Hospital 252

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Consider the following market developments and collaborations that are addressing health access, bolstering value-based models, streamlining and re-imagining service delivery. Walmart launched a ten-year collaboration with Optum in late 2022. These trends began to take hold in the U.S. Expanding value-based care, nationally.

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Collaboration Insurance Medication Billing 90

Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Hospital administrators across the nation advocate the merits of Magnet designation. The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), an affiliate of the American Nurses Association, awards Magnet status to hospitals that satisfy designated criteria that measure the strength and quality of the institution’s nursing care.

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Hospital Patient Safety Discharges Patient Care 97

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

“Within the first week, the virtual and bedside nursing teams collaborated on new use cases for the model. ” Trepanier and his colleagues said other hospitals and health systems should consider adopting this technology to improve retention rates and the nurse/patient experience.

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Patient Experience Communication Collaboration Patient Care 261

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. This highlights the necessity for hospitals to implement clear and robust compliance documentation practices.

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Documentation Admissions Hospital Discharges 130

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

She said remote learning made it difficult to collaborate with other students. I work 12-hour shifts at the hospital and when that’s over, I go home and work on being an influencer and my business,” said Beggs. And there were no hands-on learning opportunities for her to put her knowledge to use.

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Follow-Up Scheduling Documentation Collaboration 278

Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 25, 2023

MM was a 63-year-old woman admitted to the hospital to participate in a phase 1 clinical trial. When I admitted MM, I was an intern rotating at the cancer hospital affiliated with my primary hospital. Her decision to choose bad hospital food over terrible hospital food was not a bad decision.

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Diagnostics Tests Hospital Follow-Up 246

Sensible Medicine

JULY 28, 2023

Owing to a collaboration with the Wuhan University Medical School, I had visited Wuhan in 2008 and 2017. I’d been in the hospitals that were being overwhelmed and worked with the doctors who were first on the front line. Only he, and one other of my patients, had even been hospitalized.

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Hospital Diagnostics Admissions Huddles/Rounds 244

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. Hospitals should develop a plan for care beyond their walls, but few invest in skilled nursing facilities.

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Admissions Documentation Outpatient Care Hospital 130

Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

  I usually see people who die alone in the hospital. Some of these patients die alone in the hospital, with nobody at their bedside. .  They say that there is nothing worse than dying alone. ii Whoever “they” are also say that we all die alone. Others are transferred to inpatient hospice centers.

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Hospice Bookkeeping Follow-Up Appointments 296

Northwest Suburban College

MARCH 15, 2024

Interprofessional collaboration has become increasingly important in today’s complex healthcare landscape, as teams of healthcare professionals working together can achieve greater efficiency, improved patient outcomes, and enhanced satisfaction for both staff and patients.

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Medical Assistant Collaboration Teamwork Medication 52

Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Hospitals designated through the Magnet Recognition Program® live up to their name—they attract and keep nurses thanks to the nursing-focused strategies at the organization ’ s operations ’ foundation. And it ’ s not a one-and-done approach—Magnet hospitals only hold the designation for four years, after which they need to reapply.

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Hospital Unit Organization and Environment Continuing Education Certification 59

Performance Health

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This case study showcases how West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital revolutionized its clinical peer review and incident reporting processes by implementing Performance Health Partners’ software, leading to dramatic improvements in efficiency, patient safety, and administrative agility.

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Patient Safety Collaboration Hospital 87

Sensible Medicine

MAY 31, 2024

For me, what makes medicine a wonderful job is that our priority is to work collaboratively for someone else's benefit. percent of ER visits and 6% of hospital admissions in the US. Sometimes, when collaboration is necessary, a team reaches consensus, avoiding the impact of greed, sloth, ignorance, and fear. So why is it done?

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Diagnostics Collaboration Appointments Tests 192

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

“The odds are against hospitals collecting patient balances greater than $7,500,” the report analyzing Hospital collection rates for self-pay patient accounts from Crowe concludes. Crowe benchmarked data from 1,600 hospitals and over 100,00 physicians in the U.S.

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Hospital Insurance Billing Huddles/Rounds 71

EvidenceCare

APRIL 16, 2024

This comprehensive guide provides hospital and revenue cycle leadership with vital insights on preparing for CERT audits and establishing processes for compliant documentation. Hospitals need to be aware of these state-specific rules as well. Think of your documentation as the ironclad defense for your hospital admissions.

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Documentation Admissions Discharges Billing 130

Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

By actively listening to feedback, encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration, and prioritizing patient satisfaction initiatives, she establishes and maintains a patient-first mindset within Sheppard Pratt’s nursing staff. Garnett truly has a heart for the patient, frequently interacting with them directly on units.

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Unit Organization and Environment Patient Centered Care Collaboration Hospital 105

Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Be kind to your local health care providers; support their community initiatives (see previous bullet point), and ask your local hospital(s) what you or your organization can do to help the impending provider shortage (nurses, doctors). rare disease communities, or other gaps in health justice.

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Care Plan Follow-Up Collaboration Hospital 166

The Healthcare Blog

JUNE 5, 2024

By KIM BELLARD Imagine my excitement when I saw the headline: “ Robot doctors at world’s first AI hospital can treat 3,000 a day.” The paper describes what they did: “we introduce a simulacrum of hospital called Agent Hospital that simulates the entire process of treating illness. But, still.

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Hospital Triage Medication Patient Risk 116

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Three in four nurses working in hospitals care about the success of their institution — “they show up and gown up…yet only 57% feel a sense of ownership in their hospitals, leaving leaders to expect 100% quality to be delivered by about half of the nursing workforce.” health system.

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Follow-Up Hospital Admissions Best Practices 149

Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

” Digital health touchpoints are proliferating across the growing health/data ecosystem, from hospital-moving-to-home to virtual health enabled through contactless sensors, recently unveiled by G oogle’s Nest Hub with sleep sensing. states (among them California, Florida and New York).

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Tests Collaboration Hospital Patient Experience 174

Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2022

That report spoke to the importance of connecting the disconnected health care landscape, including primary care, pharmacy, diagnostics, secondary care/hospitals, health technology providers, insurers, and information stewards, among other stakeholders in the fragmented health/care ecosystem.

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Insurance Collaboration Hospital Diagnostics 117

Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

We demonstrated in the pandemic that we could be agile, reconfiguring hospitals quickly, moving patients and staff because we had to. “We will not be success [in overcoming the coronavirus] unless we deal with other countries in a collaborative way.” ” The hospital of the future is not the hospital of 2019.

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Hospital Outpatient Care Collaboration 114

Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

Some of these will join/collaborate with and complement legacy health systems, hospitals, and community-based providers. They will be joined and complemented by grocery stores and other retailers who are making investments in health and wellness in the post-COVID environment. That’s on the supply side.

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Unit Organization and Environment Collaboration Customer Service Hospital 117

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Collaboration is a top priority for doctors. Philips discovered this in a previous Future Health Index study, which revealed that the portability of healthcare data between providers in hospitals and practices was a factor that would improve doctors’ work satisfaction.

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Collaboration Hospital Patient Care Medication 127

Health Populi

MAY 16, 2019

In each of these scenarios, financial services, hospitality, and petroleum operators have bent their industry cost-curves while engaging consumers in self-service. Why does this make sense? The supply side @retail for health and consumer-facing tech is maturing and penetrating our homes, held in hands, stored in pockets, and worn on wrists.

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Collaboration Hospital Medication Patient Care 123

Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

That re-shaping happened through experiences of the hospital’s clinical functions, caring behaviors, operations, and overall culture. If these four experience-flows were positive, the patient would be discharged from hospital more likely to recommend the provider to friends, family, and social networks…generating trust.

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Hospital Discharges Patient Experience Collaboration 124

Health Populi

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Note that 8 in 10 consumers rate nurses excellent/good compared with 7 in 10 people ranking physicians this way, 6 in 10 for hospitals, 5 in 10 for telemedicine/virtual visits, and just under 5 in 10 for hospital emergency departments. health system among Americans earlier this year in a July study. health system.

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Insurance Hospital Collaboration Patient Experience 143

EvidenceCare

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Hancock explains Sentara’s forward-thinking model for innovation and cross-functional collaboration, offering actionable strategies that can help you improve innovation at your own facility. In this blog, we will be highlighting this model and what Sentara Health is doing to make it successful.

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Unit Organization and Environment Collaboration Follow-Up Tests 130

Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Foster a positive and collaborative work environment that promotes teamwork, respect, and professional development. Collaborate with unit managers to monitor and maintain appropriate staffing levels based on acuity and workload demands. I volunteered at a local hospital because it was close to my school.

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Unit Organization and Environment Collaboration Teamwork Patient Care 116

Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Collaboration is at the heart of successes over history — in Darwin’s words, “those who learn to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Anish Sebastian, CEO and oc-founder, Babyscripts.

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Collaboration Hospital 102