Accountability, Nursing and Performance improvement

Accountable Care Organizations Are Diving Head First Into Home-Based Care

Home Health Care

MAY 15, 2022

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have considerably increased their home-based care arsenals over recent years. That’s according to the Institute for Accountable Care (IAC), which conducted a wide-ranging study on ACOs and home-based care that was released Thursday. Source: Institute for Accountable Care.

Accountable Care

Accountable Care Accountability Primary Care Medicare

State Oversight and Innovations in Medicaid-Managed Long-Term Services and Supports (MLTSS) Serving Older Adults and People with Disabilities

NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

In fall 2023, NASHP partnered with Arnold Ventures to design a two-year cross-state learning and technical assistance collaborative to support states in strengthening accountability and oversight in their MLTSS programs. www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/Documents/MCQMD/Cal%20MediConnect/DualEligible-Special-Needs-Plan-Dashboard-Dec2023.pdf

Medicaid

Medicaid Nursing Medicare Integration

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

Readiness Rounds

AUGUST 14, 2023

Through meaningful interactions, these rounds encourage open communication, empathy, and accountability, leading to improved staff satisfaction and retention along with a clear and objective understanding of staff improvement priorities. Anecdotes cannot fuel enduring performance enhancement. Make it digitally automated.

Performance improvement

Performance improvement Patient Experience Accountability Hospitals

States Build Capacity to Address Maternal Mortality through Policy Innovations

NASHP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

After discussion with IDPH, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) also established a prenatal and postpartum care HEDIS (Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set) measure performance improvement project for Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) to identify and close a health disparity gap.

Medicaid

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Retaining Home Health Clinicians: 3 Steps to a Culture of Productivity

Home Health Care

MAY 25, 2023

Without a clear definition of productivity, home-based care leadership may struggle to hold staff accountable to their productivity goals and expectations. All field clinicians including nurses, therapists, social workers, and home health aides — all have productivity expectations. “The

Accountability

Accountability Performance improvement Home Care Nursing

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

Briggs Healthcare

JULY 1, 2022

CMS has proposed standards for REHs that closely align with the current CAH CoPs in most cases, while taking into account the uniqueness of REHs and statutory requirements. For more information on Rural Emergency Hospital and Critical Access Hospital Conditions of Participation, visit: [link].

Performance improvement

Performance improvement Hospitals Nursing Prevention

Improving Patient Experience: 8 Overlooked Fundamentals

Readiness Rounds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

While you can't skyrocket one element by 1000%, you can gradually improve 1,000 things by 1%--the popular sentiment from Jan Carlzon. To truly succeed, you need a comprehensive approach that takes into account various aspects of your organization. It's a team effort that involves every department within a hospital.

Patient Experience

Patient Experience Nursing Hospitals Accountability

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

Vie Healthcare

AUGUST 23, 2023

I’m sure you know from a nurse’s standpoint, how important that is. Actually, the number one occupational injury for nurses is moving patients in the country, ergonomics. You got to take that into account.’’ So they have to adhere to these nurse to patient ratios in all New York ICUs now.

Nursing

Nursing Hospitals Healthcare Accountability

First Do No Harm

Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 20, 2023

For example, we survey hospitals to ensure that, among other things, the facility and the doctors, nurses, and other staff have adequate qualifications, training, and experience to keep patients safe. And we hold facilities accountable when they fail to meet those standards.

Patient Safety

Patient Safety Medicaid Medicare Quality of Care

Expanding the Perinatal Workforce through Medicaid Coverage of Doula and Midwifery Services

NASHP

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Doulas must also be trained in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA) and adult and infant CPR. Most states require CNMs to follow the same licensure requirements as advanced practice nurses (APRNs). States determine licensure requirements for all types of midwives (e.g.,

Medicaid

Medicaid Nursing Regulations Hospitals

Good is the Enemy of Growth with Sue Tetzlaff | E. 89

Vie Healthcare

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I became a registered nurse. I got my first VP job in quality and then as a nursing officer and then as an operating officer.‘’ Lisa and her team has generated over $1 billion in financial improvements for VIE’s clients since 1999. I became a registered nurse. You see, I’m checking all the boxes, right?

Patient Experience

Patient Experience Hospitals Nursing Healthcare

Healthcare’s Leadership Gap with Ronnie Kinsey | E. 72

Vie Healthcare

MAY 31, 2023

What if now they’re not prepared to hold somebody accountable. Then there’s the accountability and the disciplining that takes place. We have to set expectations and we have to hold people accountable. Lisa and her team has generated over $1 billion in financial improvements for VIE’s clients since 1999.

Nursing

Nursing Accountability Healthcare Pharmaceuticals

How Nurse Coaches Can Support Healthcare Professionals & Their Health Systems with Alexcie Sanchez | Episode 57

Vie Healthcare

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In Episode 57 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience, Jim Cagliostro is joined by Board-Certified Nurse Coach Alexcie Sanchez BSN, RN, CEN, NC-BC to discuss the impact of her role on nursing and the community. What is a nurse coach? Exploring available options for nurse coaches. 02:14 What is a nurse coach?

Nursing

Nursing Healthcare Hospitals Private Practices

Supporting the Continuum of Care for Serious Illness in Medicaid Managed Care

NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

People with serious and life-threatening health conditions experience care needs that drive costs, including hospital admissions , emergency department utilization , and nursing home care. Promote choice and control for people with serious illness, while taking into account their unique life circumstances; 2. Goals Principles.

Medicaid

Medicaid Hospice Care Integration Regulations

Data and Research in Healthcare Analytics with Zachary Markham | E. 103

Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Episode Introduction Zach explains why the lack of timely, accurate data can delay recovery of credits, and why most hospitals only have 50% visibility into their spend and accounts payable processes. We’ll search for account numbers for all those, as well as the contact information for vendors.

Healthcare Analytics

Healthcare Analytics Healthcare Hospitals Accountability

Patient Engagement: A Two-Way Relationship with Lonnie Hirsch | E. 77

Vie Healthcare

JULY 12, 2023

Lisa and her team has generated over $1 billion in financial improvements for VIE’s clients since 1999. Since 2007, Jim has been a registered nurse working in critical care, perioperative services, and outpatient settings at nationally recognized medical facilities across three states. Jim (02:57): Sure.

Healthcare

Healthcare Nursing Patient Experience Hospitals

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

Briggs Healthcare

OCTOBER 25, 2022

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. We are demanding better, because our seniors deserve better.”.

Nursing

Nursing Accountability Quality Improvement Quality of Care

Medical Device Warranty Credits With Al Brander| Episode 55

Vie Healthcare

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In this episode, Lisa Miller, founder of VIE Healthcare and CEO of Spendmend, and Jim Cagliostro, VIE’s Clinical Operations Performance Improvement Expert, interviewed Al Brander to explore in detail the challenges and financial risks of managing medical device warranties. The simple shipping label that keeps vendors accountable.

Hospitals

Hospitals Nursing Accountability Medicare

Patient Flow Challenges Contributing to Provider Burnout

HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2022

In February 2022, for example, results from a nurse survey commissioned by a prominent staffing firm showed 56% of nurses reported that their mental health and well-being has suffered due to the pandemic, and 41% are considering leaving the profession for good. How Patient Flow Challenges Contribute to Burnout.

Tertiary Care

Tertiary Care Nursing Patient Experience Patient Safety

Why Your Old Healthcare Marketing Strategy Isn’t Working with Ian Baer | E. 111

Vie Healthcare

MAY 15, 2024

Lisa and her team has generated over $1 billion in financial improvements for VIE’s clients since 1999. Since 2007, Jim has been a registered nurse working in critical care, perioperative services, and outpatient settings at nationally recognized medical facilities across three states. I was very anxious to get to work. (02:52):

Healthcare

Healthcare Regulations Doctors Accountability

Behavioral Health System Modernization along the Continuum

NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

The Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) pairs registered nurses with low-income first-time mothers during pregnancy and continues with regular home visits until the child’s second birthday. State Medicaid authorities can use the Healthy Steps Return on Investment tools to examine the program’s impact on the state budget and outcomes.

Medicaid

Medicaid Integration Primary Care Nursing

4 Patient Flow Challenges Contributing to Provider Burnout

HIT Consultant

JUNE 2, 2022

In February 2022, for example, results from a nurse survey commissioned by a prominent staffing firm showed 56% of nurses reported that their mental health and well-being has suffered due to the pandemic, and 41% are considering leaving the profession for good. How Patient Flow Challenges Contribute to Burnout.

Tertiary Care

Tertiary Care Nursing Patient Experience Patient Safety

Taking Back The Business of Healthcare with Preston Alexander| E. 67

Vie Healthcare

APRIL 26, 2023

Episode Introduction Preston explains that the principal issue with US healthcare is its profit-driven approach, why healthcare must be a forward-thinking Netflix, rather than an obsolete Blockbuster, and why the nursing shortage is the result of a broken system. Today, we’re 300,000 nurses short.

Healthcare

Healthcare Nursing Hospitals Doctors

Optimizing Healthcare for Heart Disease with HeartFlow | E. 62

Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Lisa and her team has generated over $1 billion in financial improvements for VIE’s clients since 1999. I received my bachelor’s of nursing there in, dating myself 2005, and it was a wonderful program, excellent education, and really lifelong friends were established there. Two, fun fact, I drove a 1985 Chevette in 2005.

Healthcare

Healthcare Patient Experience Hospitals Nursing

Exposing Healthcare Fraud with Jonathan Tycko| E. 68

Vie Healthcare

MAY 4, 2023

Lisa and her team has generated over $1 billion in financial improvements for VIE’s clients since 1999. Since 2007, Jim has been a registered nurse working in critical care, perioperative services, and outpatient settings at nationally recognized medical facilities across three states. Today, we’re 300,000 nurses short.

Healthcare

Healthcare Nursing Hospitals Doctors

Sustainability and Value: State Palliative Care Reimbursement Strategies

NASHP

AUGUST 24, 2023

Blue Shield offers a range of palliative care services, including: Value-based purchasing: Over the past decade, state Medicaid agencies have designed and implemented a range of initiatives focused on value, using payment to incentivize provider behaviors that can reduce unnecessary care and improve outcomes.

Medicaid

Medicaid Quality Assurance Quality of Care Hospitals

Primary Care Case Management in Medicaid: A Strategy for Supporting Primary Care in Rural Areas

NASHP

AUGUST 23, 2021

In addition, it is important to build in measurement at the start and to think of state efforts as iterative — moving to tackle new priorities as performance improves. Payment to improve capabilities. Payment to incent performance. Regional accountable entities. Non-financial Supports for PCCM providers.

Primary Care

Primary Care Medicaid Accountability Quality Improvement

Innovative Cost Savings Ideas For Hospitals In 2023| E. 60

Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2023

.” And I think that bringing these initiatives all together so you get a complete picture with complete visibility, cohesiveness, understanding what’s going on, and of course that terrible A-word which is accountability, bringing it all together, we’ll have just another level of savings because you just have a complete view.

Hospitals

Hospitals Healthcare Doctors Accountability

Waste in the Hospital Supply Chain with Luká Yancopoulos | E. 105

Vie Healthcare

MARCH 13, 2024

Lisa and her team has generated over $1 billion in financial improvements for VIE’s clients since 1999. Since 2007, Jim has been a registered nurse working in critical care, perioperative services, and outpatient settings at nationally recognized medical facilities across three states. So you see familiar things.

Hospitals

Hospitals Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Doctors

Compassion Fatigue & The Need For Self-Care with Jahmaal Marshall | E. 75

Vie Healthcare

JUNE 28, 2023

Lisa and her team has generated over $1 billion in financial improvements for VIE’s clients since 1999. Since 2007, Jim has been a registered nurse working in critical care, perioperative services and outpatient settings at nationally recognized medical facilities across three states. So much of our identity.

Healthcare

Healthcare Nursing Hospitals Performance improvement

Health Care Quality Digest

Accountable Care Organizations Are Diving Head First Into Home-Based Care

State Oversight and Innovations in Medicaid-Managed Long-Term Services and Supports (MLTSS) Serving Older Adults and People with Disabilities

Trending Sources

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

States Build Capacity to Address Maternal Mortality through Policy Innovations

Retaining Home Health Clinicians: 3 Steps to a Culture of Productivity

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

Improving Patient Experience: 8 Overlooked Fundamentals

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

First Do No Harm

Expanding the Perinatal Workforce through Medicaid Coverage of Doula and Midwifery Services

Good is the Enemy of Growth with Sue Tetzlaff | E. 89

Healthcare’s Leadership Gap with Ronnie Kinsey | E. 72

How Nurse Coaches Can Support Healthcare Professionals & Their Health Systems with Alexcie Sanchez | Episode 57

Supporting the Continuum of Care for Serious Illness in Medicaid Managed Care

Data and Research in Healthcare Analytics with Zachary Markham | E. 103

Patient Engagement: A Two-Way Relationship with Lonnie Hirsch | E. 77

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

Medical Device Warranty Credits With Al Brander| Episode 55

Patient Flow Challenges Contributing to Provider Burnout

Why Your Old Healthcare Marketing Strategy Isn’t Working with Ian Baer | E. 111

Behavioral Health System Modernization along the Continuum

4 Patient Flow Challenges Contributing to Provider Burnout

Taking Back The Business of Healthcare with Preston Alexander| E. 67

Optimizing Healthcare for Heart Disease with HeartFlow | E. 62

Exposing Healthcare Fraud with Jonathan Tycko| E. 68

Sustainability and Value: State Palliative Care Reimbursement Strategies

Primary Care Case Management in Medicaid: A Strategy for Supporting Primary Care in Rural Areas

Innovative Cost Savings Ideas For Hospitals In 2023| E. 60

Waste in the Hospital Supply Chain with Luká Yancopoulos | E. 105

Compassion Fatigue & The Need For Self-Care with Jahmaal Marshall | E. 75

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