Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Today’s final rule includes definitions of private equity and real estate investment trusts, setting the stage for identifying whether a nursing home belongs to one of these types of owners. HHS continues to take action to improve the safety, quality, and accountability of nursing homes,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. “HHS

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 1, 2022

CMS emailed this statement approximately 1 hour ago (afternoon of Tuesday, March 1, 2022): “At tonight’s State of the Union address, the Biden-Harris administration is announcing a vision to improve quality of care and quality of life for nursing home residents.

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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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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 22, 2022

In February 2022, President Biden announced a comprehensive set of reforms to improve the safety and quality of nursing home care, hold nursing homes accountable for the care they provide, and make the quality of care and facility ownership more transparent so that potential residents and their loved ones can make informed care choices. [1]

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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 29, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Nursing Home Staffing Study Comprehensive Report – June 2023 was posted this afternoon. The study also explores potential implications for feasibility of increased staffing and costs to nursing homes. million nursing home residents nationwide.

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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. Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. population. population.

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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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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), doubled down on its work to protect nursing home residents and their caregivers from illegal methods of guaranteeing payment for care. We expect nursing homes to act responsibly and comply with the law.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2023

January 18, 2023 … As part of the continuing efforts under President Biden’s initiative to improve nursing home transparency, safety and quality, and accountability, today the U.S. No nursing home resident should be improperly diagnosed with schizophrenia or given an inappropriate antipsychotic.

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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.”.

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Sheppard Health Law

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

On February 15, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule that would require nursing homes enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid to disclose new information about their ownership and management structures.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 20, 2022

Just a few minutes ago (Wednesday, April 20, 2022) HHS posted this Press Release: New Data and Report on Hospital and Nursing Home Ownership. The subtitle reads New data supports President Biden’s plan to protect seniors by improving safety and quality of care. There is also wide ownership variation by state.

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Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 7, 2021

On October 4, 2021, the California Senate Bill 650 (“SB 650”), also known as the Corporate Transparency in Elder Care Act of 2021, was signed by Governor Gavin Newsom. As described below, SB 650 is designed to provide the public with greater transparency as to skilled nursing facility (‘SNF”) ownership and finances.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Today, in another effort to improve nursing home transparency, safety and quality, and accountability, the U.S. This information can be linked to other data sources to identify the performance of facilities under common ownership, such as owners affiliated with multiple nursing homes with a record of poor performance.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

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Home Health Care

JULY 5, 2022

Hospital readmissions are regularly viewed as an indicator of the quality of care patients receive. However, CMS does not take into account whether a patient’s risk for readmission is influenced by the availability of follow-up care after a patient is discharged in their geographical area. “If

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p3care

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Accountability. Option of Care Coordinator.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Accountability. Option of Care Coordinator.

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NASHP

JANUARY 12, 2024

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.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 13, 2022

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. Driving home health referrals. Source: LeadingAge.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

States are hoping to achieve a number of goals with their MLTSS programs, including increasing access to home and community-based services, promoting care coordination, enhancing quality and beneficiary satisfaction, and mitigating cost growth. and Commonwealth Coordinated Care Plus (CCC Plus) into Cardinal Care Managed Care.

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 30, 2022

This will help better identify potential noncompliance with CMS’s nurse staffing requirements, such as lack of a registered nurse for eight hours each day, or lack of licensed nursing for 24 hours a day. This guidance will help to uncover instances of insufficient staffing and yield higher quality care.

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Sheppard Health Law

MARCH 6, 2024

For instance, FTC Chair Lina Khan stated that “[a] common theme across these comments is that growing financialization in the health care industry can force medical professionals to subordinate their medical judgment to corporate decision-makers’ profit motives at the expense of patient health.” 1] Health care market participants (i.e.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 1, 2023

“Home health has a very important value,” Palak Shah, Luna’s co-founder and head of clinical services, told Home Health Care News. They have lots of different services: physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech, nursing, etc. Whereas Luna primarily delivers physical therapy. of the total episode cost for the health network.

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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.

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Center for Health Progress

AUGUST 8, 2023

I unfairly started to blame the doctors, nurses, and other hospital staff. While we wait in the emergency room, there is a nurse going without lunch because they’re treating six patients by themself in an intentionally understaffed hospital. My frustrations increased as the time passed…Why can’t I just see a doctor?

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 6, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Better infection surveillance and trained surveyors are also necessary to keep nursing homes safe and accountable. Arlington, Va.,

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It really dovetails with our Capital City Nurses brand that is in Northern Virginia, D.C., Richmond, Virginia-based Care Advantage has 38 locations throughout Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Washington, D.C. They really hone in on just the overall, quality service delivery. Maryland and Delaware.”. and North Carolina.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

It is well-established that longer patient wait times negatively impact patient satisfaction , specifically regarding patient confidence (in the provider) and perceived quality of care. Integrate virtual care services like telehealth/telemedicine. Offer hassle-free online appointment scheduling and rescheduling.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

“The odds are against hospitals collecting patient balances greater than $7,500,” the report analyzing Hospital collection rates for self-pay patient accounts from Crowe concludes. to reveal trends on health care providers’ ability to collect patient service revenue.

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Patient Safety Movement

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

NEW FEDERAL EFFORTS TO IMPROVE NURSING HOME SAFETY The White House has just announced a plan to improve the safety and quality of care in the nation’s nursing homes, aimed to protect seniors from an industry known for its lack of accountability.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In fact, patients have generally become more amenable to being treated remotely , further supporting the move to add telehealth tools to the patient care arsenal. Increasing The Quality of Care at Home Without Adding to The Burden. You could be excused for thinking this would just replace one problem with another.

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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.

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Sheppard Health Law

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The debate is centered on what services advanced practice providers (“APPs”) who hold Master’s Degrees ( e.g. , Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists, Dental Hygienists, etc.) These organizations argue that allowing for independent practice of APPs could lead to a siloed approach, with less collaboration and accountability.

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