Home Health Care

APRIL 17, 2023

Nearly 100,000 registered nurses left the field during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an analysis conducted by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN). Worse yet, the analysis suggested that nearly 800,000 more nurses could leave the field by 2027. nursing workforce moving forward.”

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HIT Consultant

JULY 27, 2023

This includes nurse and clinician shortages, which persist across hospitals and health systems nationwide. About 100,000 nurses left the workforce during the pandemic, with over 600,000 reporting their intention to leave by 2027, citing stress and burnout as primary reasons. Engage your clinical workforce Ask nurses for their input.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JANUARY 4, 2022

Recent news articles have spilled much ink about the current nurse shortage. According to Pew , due to nursing shortages “Hospitals nationwide are canceling nonemergency surgeries, struggling to quickly find beds for patients and failing to meet the minimum nurse-patient ratios experts recommend.”

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 24, 2022

CMS has posted the COVID-19 Nursing Home data for the week ending June 12, 2022. 5 together accounted for an estimated 6% to 7% of new infections in the US in late May. Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Residents with booster doses increased 0.4% Staff vaccination rate decreased 0.1%

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 3, 2022

As a Board-Certified Internist and Geriatrician with over 35 years of providing care in nursing facilities, this sentiment has guided me throughout my career. Our nursing facility industry is about to crumble. The nursing industry is being torn apart by the convergence of several major currents: 1. million to 1.35 million to 1.35

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Home Health Care

JUNE 20, 2023

Visiting Nurse Association Health Group (VNAHG) has found its next leader. VNAHG has also worked hard on becoming a leader in value-based care , whether in the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) model or through innovative arrangements with other entities, such as accountable care organizations (ACOs). “We’ll

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 28, 2023

CMS will publish the Nursing Home Affiliated Entity Performance Measures dataset on data.cms.com. Both the changes to Nursing Home Care Compare and the publishing of the Nursing Home Affiliated Entity Performance Measures dataset on data.cms.gov will take place on June 28, 2023.

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Health Populi

JULY 17, 2023

Most patients, nurses and doctors believe that health insurance plans reduce access to health care which contributes to clinician burnout and increases costs, based on three surveys conducted by Morning Consult for the American Hospital Association (AHA).

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

AUGUST 23, 2022

Fortune Magazine had 3 articles providing an overview of the labor market for nurses. Here’s what nurse salaries look like in 2022 Is a master’s degree in nursing (MSN) worth it? They’re making big money’: How to earn $139,000 as a nurse. In each article, I am quoted.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2021

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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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 3, 2021

I just don’t have the time,” Dorothy Davis, the president and CEO of Visiting Nurse Health System (VNHS), said Thursday at the Home Health Care News FUTURE conference. Claims-based measures would account for 35% of a home health agency’s overall score in most instances, with OASIS-based measures also accounting for 35%.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 6, 2023

These individuals are then assigned a personal health nurse (PHN) who acts as a partner in the employee’s health journey. PHNs are registered nurses who take a holistic approach to improving an individual’s health challenges. This connection fosters accountability and support for the employee’s everyday needs.

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 28, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Examination of Staffing Shortages at US Nursing Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic was published in JAMA Network Open on July 27, 2023. Meaning : Findings from this study suggest that staffing shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic placed strain on nursing homes.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 23, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The title of this blog is the title of the August 19, 2023 New York Times article with these opening paragraphs: “The first terrifying wave of Covid-19 caused 60,000 deaths among residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities within five months.

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 10, 2022

CMS has posted the nursing home COVID-19 data for the week ending May 29, 2022. 5 together accounted for an estimated 6% to 7% of new infections in the US in late May. Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. for the first time in 4 weeks Residents with booster doses increased by 0.2%

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2020

While home health has typically focused on post-acute nursing, therapy, hospice and personal care, payment models have expanded the concept of home as one’s health hub, to address social determinants of health: food, transportation, loneliness and social connection, among other touch points of social care. The post U.S.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2022

LTCCC (Long Term Care Community Coalition) posted this alert on March 3, 2022: “Federal requirements mandate that nursing homes have sufficient staff, with the appropriate competencies to meet the clinical, emotional, and psychosocial needs of every resident. Total Nurse Staff HPRD, incl. million nursing home residents.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 5, 2024

They can also view the COVID-19 results and some NHI details of their children whose accounts are linked to theirs. "[T]his shift has not only reduced the administrative burden but has also paved the way for substantial time savings in nursing and administrative tasks," administration manager Kelly Carpenter attested.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 7, 2022

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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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 25, 2021

The Impact of COVID-19 on Medicare Beneficiaries in Nursing Homes Analysis presents preliminary information on the impact of COVID-19 on Medicare beneficiaries in a nursing home. nursing home versus community), as well as other demographic and clinical characteristics between March 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

However, further investigation revealed that email accounts for two of its employees, hacked into on November 5, 2021, did contain St. The outlet was also told by one nurse, who wished to remain anonymous, that some of St. Initially, the third-party consultant's investigation determined that St.

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Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Government Accountability Office has posted this January 2022 Health Care Capsule to “summarize past GAO reports on concerns about nursing home quality of care, consumer information, and COVID-19. We also recommended ways to make it easier for consumers to compare the quality of care in nursing homes across the nation.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 2, 2022

“The purpose of this primer is to provide updated information to the patient safety community about the challenges of ensuring the safe care of older adults in Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes (NHs) associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, and the federal and state efforts taken to mitigate these challenges.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare A recent study , published March 23, 2023 in the New England Journal of Medicine , found that nursing facilities who tested their staff frequently for COVID-19 had substantially fewer deaths from the disease among their vulnerable residents.

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 16, 2022

CMS has posted the COVID-19 data for nursing homes for the week ending June 5, 2022. 5 together accounted for an estimated 6% to 7% of new infections in the US in late May. Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Additionally, there are more variants out there and the variants are on the rise – BA.4

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Organizations can think about things like privacy and security, very bread-and-butter technology aspects, and think about transparency and accountability. Because when we think about transparency and accountability, it's what is the technology doing? And what have the doctors and nurses had to say about the drafts?

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 28, 2024

At the University of California Irvine Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing, faculty members are developing ways for artificial intelligence to help deliver better patient care and improved outcomes. How are you accounting for this in openCHA's LLM-powered framework?

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Home Health Care

MARCH 18, 2024

That includes everyone from health system executives, to nurses, to patients. We have nurse practitioners that come from totally different backgrounds that have embraced palliative care,” Hughes said. As difficult as it is and as radical of a concept as accountability and ownership of the patient. “As Binder said. “As

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 19, 2022

Five individuals and two for-profit skilled nursing facilities in Southwestern Pennsylvania have been indicted by federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and related health care fraud charges, United States Attorney Cindy K. This is a news release you need to read. as co-defendants.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 9, 2022

In today’s complex and fast-paced healthcare landscape, the benefits of rules-based nurse scheduling software are undeniable. First, consider the challenges nurses face: they comprise the largest percentage of healthcare professionals, and their role is one of the most demanding. Configurability and flexibility.

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Briggs Healthcare

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Recommendations to Enhance Telemedicine in Nursing Homes in the Age of COVID-19 is set to appear in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association [1]. Nursing homes (NHs) have been at the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic. population, NH residents account for nearly 33% of all COVID-19 deaths.

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NASHP

DECEMBER 7, 2022

State Strategies to Support the Future of the Primary Care Physician and Nursing Workforce December 7, 2022 / by Elaine Chhean , Anita Cardwell , Lauren Block (Aurrera Health Group), and Sarah Tocher (Aurrera Health Group). High-quality primary care is foundational to a healthy society and well-functioning health care systems.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In 2021, the [COVID-related] supplemental federal spending for nursing homes and home health care declined to a much lower level, bringing down the overall growth rate for both sectors, with nursing home spending declining in 2021,” continued Hartman, one of the lead authors of the CMS analysis. billion to $181.3 to reach $4.3

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The share of the economy accounted for by the health sector was 17.3% Price growth for home health providers checked in at 2.5%, a relatively low rate that was comparable to the 3% growth nursing care facilities and continuing care retirement communities saw and the 2.8% Medicare accounted for $944.3 during 2016–19.”

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2022

By comparison, in the fourth quarter of 2020, there were 4,634 in-person psychiatry visits and 5,221 telepsychiatry visits, accounting for 52.98% of visits. In the fourth quarter of 2021, there were 4,024 in-person visits and 6,726 telehealth visits, accounting for 62.57% of visits. FCC funds for telehealth.

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Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2022

CMS oversees how State survey agencies (States) conduct surveys of nursing homes to assess the homes’ compliance with Federal requirements.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Jussi Reijonen, Account Manager at Medixine While contemporary healthcare is slowly but surely embracing novel technologies, front-line nurses are still a much under-used resource in bridging the gap between innovation and patient well-being. Embracing the voice of nurses in tech development requires a shift in mindset.

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