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

Readiness Rounds

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.

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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’s Medicaid agency and Bureau of Family Health synthesized their strategic planning goals for improving maternal health outcomes and proposed policies to leadership and partners. Over 800 women die each year in the U.S.

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

Briggs Healthcare

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].

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Improving Patient Experience: 8 Overlooked Fundamentals

Readiness Rounds

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. However, the key is not just in preventing errors but in how you respond when they occur.

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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. However, since the beginning of the pandemic, patient safety performance significantly declined. And we hold facilities accountable when they fail to meet those standards.

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

NASHP

The project is supported by the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant, the Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant, and the Mid-Iowa Health Foundation. Doulas must also be trained in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA) and adult and infant CPR. Support from MCOs.

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

Vie Healthcare

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.

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