Connect Care Bytes Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Expanded Access to Improved 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. Designed to facilitate multidisciplinary collaboration, the Transition Planning Package improves communications within and across encounters.

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Discharges Huddles/Rounds Transfers Communication 40

Minority Nurse

APRIL 15, 2024

Ensuring CPR certification means you are on hand with the knowledge to help save a life in or out of the hospital. Hospitals Have the Latest Equipment–We Don’t Need CPR According to The Joint Commission, crash carts with missing or expired items make up the top three list of hospital problems.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Conclusion Mr. Salzo, transferred to an oncology unit, begins cancer treatment. Alert and anxious, use of accessory muscles of respiration, respiratory distress RR- 32 breaths per minute and labored, BP- 143/88 mm Hg, T- 100.3 and HgB- 7.2 The bedside nurse leader provides him with education about his new diagnosis.

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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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Admissions Discharges Collaboration Transfers 59

Relias

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Claims-based measures make up 35% of the TPS and are based on acute-care hospitalizations in the first 60 days of care and emergency department use without hospitalization in the first 60 days of care. Discharged to community. Toilet transferring. Bed transferring. Management of oral medications. TNC Mobility.

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Transfers Acute Care Follow-Up Discharges 52

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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Documentation Follow-Up Discharges Transfers 52

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 !”

Admissions 52

Admissions Follow-Up Hospital Huddles/Rounds 52

Relias

APRIL 6, 2022

In March, an OSHA memo announced a focused, short-term initiative involving inspections of skilled nursing facilities and hospitals that have prior citations or complaints and treat COVID-19 patients. Failures to follow transfer or discharge requirements. Are special-focus facilities. Infection control issues.

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Acute Care Follow-Up Long Term Care Discharges 52

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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