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When Facing Language Barriers, Having the Same Home Care Nurse Improves Outcomes

Daily Nurse

After a hospitalization, home healthcare enables patients to recover where they feel most comfortable: in their homes. Nurses visit patients to provide care to keep them at home, given that hospital readmissions cost the U.S. healthcare system more than $41 billion each year. Same Nurse or the Same Language?

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How Transformational Leadership Improves Patient Safety

Relias

Communication Transformational leaders use effective communication skills to build trust and establish a shared vision around a culture of safety where everyone understands their role in working to protect patients. It is probably rare for anyone to achieve self-transcendence during a regular day at work.

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Medicare Care Compare: Publicly reported performance measures

American Nurse

Outcome measures may include the incidence of repeat hospitalizations, surgical mortality rates, or the ability of the patient to remain in the community after discharge from home healthcare. CMS defines “value” as improvement in health outcomes for the cost of achieving that improvement.