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Posting of Nursing Home Ownership/Operatorship Affiliation Data on Nursing Home Care Compare Website and data.cms.gov

Briggs Healthcare

CMS will publish the Nursing Home Affiliated Entity Performance Measures dataset on data.cms.com. These data combine inspection, staffing, quality, and other performance metrics across affiliated entities.

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CMS Study Shows Astonishing Disparity Between COVID-19 Cases in Nursing Homes and the Community

Home Health Care

Specifically, the study found that although nursing home residents only represent 2% of the Medicare population, they accounted for 22% of all COVID-19 cases among Medicare members. 31, 2020, accounting for the majority of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. The study period was between March 1, 2020, and Dec.

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Managed Care Contracts Fueling Growth For Continuous Home Care

Home Health Care

About a dozen years ago when Will Putman took over the business development side of Continuous Home Care, his dad — the co-founder of the company — had an unofficial benchmark nicknamed “blackjack.” Continuous Home Care is a Pennsylvania-based home health provider with about 350 employees.

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The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality

Briggs Healthcare

Nursing homes play a unique dual role in the long-term care continuum, serving as a place where people receive needed health care and a place they call home. The 1986 Institute of Medicine report Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes identified a range of challenges to the quality of care in nursing homes.

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Taking a patient-centric approach to value-based care

Healthcare It News

The value-based care model is gaining momentum in the healthcare industry, and it is not hard to see why. After all, value-based care – which rewards healthcare providers with incentives based on the quality of care they provide to patients – has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and reduces costs for patients.

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Study: Caseload, Telehealth Focus Drives Quality for Home Health Agencies

Home Health Care

With over 400,000 data points, a new study from LeadingAge could give home-based care providers a new roadmap on how to optimize performance. It also focused on technology, palliative care, staffing and future care delivery models. It also focused on technology, palliative care, staffing and future care delivery models.

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States Will Continue to Focus on Older Adults and People with Disabilities in 2024 

NASHP

Direct care workers — such as personal care and home care aides as well as certified nursing assistants — provide care services to individuals and older adults with complex needs. Acknowledgements NASHP would like to express our gratitude to The John A. Hartford Foundation, the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr.