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Protecting Seniors and People with Disabilities by Improving Safety and Quality of Care in the Nation’s Nursing Homes

Briggs Healthcare

Despite the tens of billions of federal taxpayer dollars flowing to nursing homes each year, too many continue to provide poor, sub-standard care that leads to avoidable resident harm. more likely to have a preventable emergency department visit and 8.7% Nursing homes will be held accountable if they fail to meet this standard.

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5 Ways Federated Computing Can Reshape Public Health

HIT Consultant

Unlocking data silos using Federated Computing (FC) has the potential to achieve a positive impact across the healthcare industry, ranging from clinical care quality improvement and accreditation to population health management, precision public health and equitable drug development.

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Administration Strengthens Oversight of Nation’s Poorest-Performing Nursing Homes

Briggs Healthcare

Today’s announcement is part of a series of new actions the Biden-Harris Administration is taking to increase accountability of bad actors in the nursing home industry, improve the quality of nursing homes and make them safer. and face increasingly severe enforcement actions if improvement is not demonstrated.

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First Do No Harm

Briggs Healthcare

What’s worse, a considerable portion of this is preventable. Prior to COVID-19, progress was being made to improve patient safety. It’s time for all of us to focus our attention on patient safety and push for continued and significant improvements. And we hold facilities accountable when they fail to meet those standards.

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Public Health Modernization Toolkit: Key Commitments, Priorities, and Strategies to Advance Collaboration between Public Health and Health Systems

NASHP

State leaders play a critical role in convening key internal and external partners, implementing engagement and input processes that foster shared ownership and accountability toward goals at the state and community levels. A precondition of sustaining these partnerships is sustained investment in state and local public health capacity.

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Connecticut and Pennsylvania’s Approaches to Maternity-Focused Value-Based Payment Models

NASHP

having one of the most advanced health care systems in the world, U.S. 3] Most maternal deaths are considered preventable, with the majority due to cardiovascular conditions, infection or sepsis, hemorrhage, and suicide or overdose. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” 2014. Despite the U.S.

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Center: Equity and Vision

Sheppard Health Law

The five strategic objectives for advancing this systemwide transformation include (1) Drive Accountable Care, (2) Advance Health Equity, (3) Support Innovation, (4) Address Affordability, and (5) Partner to Achieve System Transformation. Strategic Objective 3: Support Care Innovations.