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Caring for Medically Complex Children Takes a Village

Nurse.com

These children account for one-third of total healthcare spending and 40% of Medicaid’s total spending on kids,” according to a Children’s Hospital Association news release. Another nurse and I were the daytime care coordinators,” Whitfield said. Children’s hospitals in the U.S. This accounted for a 2.6%

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The Exec: Advanced Practice Providers Key to Managing Physician Shortages

Health Leaders | Nursing

We’re going to have to find a way to take care of people. My focus is advanced practice providers, which are nurse practitioners (NPs), and physician assistants (PAs). It makes sense that if our absolute top goal is to take care of lives, then we have to optimize our clinical workforce.

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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. Home health care.