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Understanding FWA Compliance in Healthcare

American Medical Compliance

It requires careful structuring of financial relationships between physicians and healthcare entities. HIPAA Finally, HIPAA, or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, is a federal law that sets standards for the protection of sensitive patient health information.

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Community Health Nurses: Advocates for Underserved Populations

Every Nurse

They work in various settings, including public health agencies, clinics, community centers, and schools, to provide essential healthcare services and promote health education. Providing Essential Healthcare Services Community health nurses deliver a wide range of healthcare services to individuals and communities.

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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.

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Whole Person Care: What It Means, How To Use It, and Why It’s Important

Relias

This means that separate organs do not operate in a vacuum, and our psychological health cannot be completely separated from our physiological health. Whole person care is the practice of promoting health by understanding how a medical condition impacts the entire body and what social and environmental factors are at play.

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Home health nursing

American Nurse

Patient-centered care focused on self-sufficiency The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uses the term “home health” to describe a federal health insurance program that provides intermittent short-term care to help patients recover from illness and become as self-sufficient as possible at home.

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The Powerful Constraints on Medical Care in Catholic Hospitals Across America

Health Leaders | Nursing

Chin says it's not realistic that the onus be put on patients to avoid Catholic hospitals' care restrictions. Their health insurance may not include other hospitals, "or that's where the ambulance is taking them and they don't really have a say."(Dan During that time, she said, the patient developed an infection.