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Importance of Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare + Tips to Improve 

Medical Advantage

Ask any leader in a health care organization if they value patient satisfaction, and the answer will be an immediate yes. As the discussion continues, you are sure to hear terms such as “patient engagement,” “patient delight,” or “partnership” to describe the relationship between the provider group and the patient.

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Maximizing Healthcare Reimbursement Through Higher Patient Satisfaction Scores

Relias

One effective way is to earn high patient satisfaction scores that demonstrate value to customers seeking a trusted healthcare partner. But gaining patient trust isn’t the only benefit of high patient satisfaction scores. According to the program, hospitals with higher HCAHPS scores earn higher reimbursements.

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Simplifying Medical Documentation: The Role of Healthcare Document Scanners

Scrubs

Tackling the Mountain of Paperwork: The Plight of Healthcare Professionals Imagine a day in the life of a nurse: between patient care, administrative duties and the ongoing demands of documentation, there’s hardly a moment to breathe.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Stacey Garnett

Minority Nurse

In the fast-paced and ever-evolving behavioral healthcare field, nursing leaders are crucial in ensuring efficient operations, a supportive work environment for nurses, and providing quality patient care. She understands that high-quality care begins with a personal commitment to perseverance in adversity.

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Distinguishing HCAHPS From the Overall Customer Experience

Guideway Care

While the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey is a significant tool in measuring patient satisfaction, it represents a single aspect of the overall patient experience. This is possible by integrating HCAHPS findings with broader patient experience information.

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A Vision of Diversity, Equity, and Nursing Education 

Minority Nurse

We must also remove financial and other barriers to access to nursing education , whether in the form of standardized tests or ensuring that we keep all pathways into nursing available, including CNA, LPN, ADN, and beyond.” Patients and Quality of Care A diverse nursing workforce benefits both patients and healthcare workers alike.

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Preparing for CERT Audits and Practicing Compliant Documentation

EvidenceCare

Regulatory Standards CERT (comprehensive error rate testing) is a program administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that utilizes Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) to review medical records and identify potential billing errors. Breakdowns in tracking downgrades and denials can cause substantial financial losses.