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Care Coordination: The Key to Improving Patient Outcomes

Relias

What is care coordination? Coordination of care is the process of organizing and integrating health care services for patients across care settings and providers. It can involve prenatal care, labor and delivery care, postpartum care, newborn care, family planning, and maternal and infant health services.

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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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Let’s huddle up

American Nurse

A comprehensive ambulatory cancer center’s journey to implementing tiered huddles Takeaways: Tiered huddles are brief conversations that occur throughout levels of an organization or across health systems to improve patient safety, communication, situational awareness, care coordination, resource utilization, patient outcomes, and service.

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Healthcare Technology and Nursing: What You Should Know

Diversity Nursing

One of the many benefits of telehealth is it can enhance access to healthcare for individuals living in remote or rural communities or those with limited mobility. It also significantly reduces travel time and patient expenses, improves care coordination, and allows Nurses to reach a larger patient population.

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6 Ways CNOs are Improving Teamwork for 2024

Health Leaders | Nursing

Her team has also enhanced communication around these benefits, many of which are longstanding, so nurses know the possibilities from the beginning. FitzPatrick and Sievert find the people in their purview—from nursing teams and leaders to the C-suite—expect more transparency and communication on the macro conditions affecting healthcare. “We

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Telephone triage nursing: When patients call

American Nurse

Some triage nurses work with patients, families, and populations to promote wellness, manage acute illness, assist in managing chronic illness or disability, support families in end-of-life care, provide care coordination, or evaluate care outcomes. Document call events and provide a summary for the healthcare provider.

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The Six Domains of Health Care Quality — New Considerations

Relias

By focusing on the six domains as an operational framework, healthcare organizations would have a higher probability of both reducing errors and improving the overall quality of health care that they provide. Patient medical records include documentation of patient histories and care. What’s missing from the Six Domains?