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Executive Leadership Rounds: 9 Steps to Improve HCAHPS + Staff Engagement & Retention

Readiness Rounds

In hospitals, where patient experience is important and quality of care is non-negotiable, a subtle yet profound practice has emerged as a catalyst for positive change: Executive Leadership Rounds. Unpacking Leadership Rounds: Leadership Rounds is a dynamic practice in hospitals that brings leaders, staff, and together.

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States Build Capacity to Address Maternal Mortality through Policy Innovations

NASHP

from maternal-related causes , with more than 80 percent of these deaths being preventable. Iowa is also developing a conceptual model for how alternative payment models can be used to improve maternal health outcomes using quality measures, accountable care organizations, and other methods.

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CMS Action to Expand Access to Emergency Care Services in Rural Communities  

Briggs Healthcare

Rural Emergency Hospitals (REHs) are a new provider type established by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 to address the growing concern over closures of rural hospitals. Critical Access Hospitals. For more information on Rural Emergency Hospital and Critical Access Hospital Conditions of Participation, visit: [link].

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First Do No Harm

Briggs Healthcare

A recent study found that when a patient is admitted to the hospital, harm occurs nearly 24 percent of the time. Another report revealed that nearly 1 in 4 Medicare patients have experienced harm in the hospital. What’s worse, a considerable portion of this is preventable.

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Improving Patient Experience: 8 Overlooked Fundamentals

Readiness Rounds

Based on our extensive experience working with various hospitals, we wanted to share the important but often overlooked factors that have a big impact on both patient satisfaction and the overall experience. While you can't skyrocket one element by 1000%, you can gradually improve 1,000 things by 1%--the popular sentiment from Jan Carlzon.

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States Advancing Equitable Maternal Health Policy Highlighted at #NASHPCONF22

NASHP

Last month the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report analyzing pregnancy-related deaths from 36 state maternal mortality review committees from 2017-2019. The report found over 84 percent of pregnancy-related deaths to be preventable, with the majority (53 percent) occurring 7-365 days postpartum.

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How Tech Transforms Echo & Medical Devices with Clifford Thornton | E. 82

Vie Healthcare

20:39 Choosing the right medical device for your patients Clifford explained the key elements hospital leaders should consider in choosing the right medical device. You got to take that into account.’’ So managers, they need to work around all these kinds of things and take it into account.’’ You’re right there.

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