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Why Care Coordination Is Important for Home Health and Hospice Agencies

Relias

A well-designed care coordination process benefits patients, providers, and payer organizations. Improved care quality and patient safety, reduced readmissions and ER visits, and lower healthcare costs are just some of the positive outcomes of effective care coordination. Care coordination under HHVBP.

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Virtual Nursing Shifts its Focus to the Patient Experience

Health Leaders | Nursing

"To us the future is for all different types of virtual care, and we know that other smart programs will be deployed via the electronic health record system, and we haven't really launched them to their fullest extent," Stone says. All of those things are business cases that we need to take one at a time," she adds. "We

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Beyond EHRs: What Is “Meaningful Use” and How Can It Help Your Facility?

Scrubs

To prove “meaningful use”, providers must show that their EHR system is improving the quality of care their patients receive. They must also use this technology in meaningful ways, such as for electronic prescriptions, improving care coordination between providers, and improving the overall health of the public.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Temitope (Temi) Oseromi

Minority Nurse

As a nurse manager, I am responsible for the unit’s overall operational needs, which include, but are not limited to, interviewing, hiring, performance management, patient safety/patient care initiatives, overall team engagement, patient experience initiatives, process improvement projects, and all other business-related needs.

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Selecting Staffing Models: How CNOs Can Nurture Patients and Nurses

Health Leaders | Nursing

"Care continuity models aim to maintain consistent nurse-patient relationships across care transitions and settings," Tilton said. These models may involve assigning care coordinators or a primary nurse to patients throughout their healthcare journey." The last innovative staffing model is telehealth nursing.

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Nurses Month: A Time to Reflect on Your Career

Nurses Advocates

I was responsible for care coordination, care transitions, and empowering the patient to regain the control they lost after a catastrophic event. Seeing the transformation and resilience of the people I was called on to care for was amazing. In 2006 I moved into another area of healthcare, accreditation.

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Understanding FWA Compliance in Healthcare

American Medical Compliance

Violations of the FCA can result in significant financial penalties and legal consequences for healthcare providers. Anti-Kickback Statute Secondly, the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) prohibits the exchange of anything of value in return for patient referrals or business generated by referrals.

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