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Protecting Seniors and People with Disabilities by Improving Safety and Quality of Care in the Nation’s Nursing Homes

Briggs Healthcare

Despite the tens of billions of federal taxpayer dollars flowing to nursing homes each year, too many continue to provide poor, sub-standard care that leads to avoidable resident harm. These initiatives will help ensure adequate staffing, dignity and safety in their accommodations, and quality care.

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CMS Unveils “Innovation in Behavioral Health” Model to Tackle Dual Mental and Physical Health Challenges

HIT Consultant

Value-based care: Practices will be compensated based on the quality of care and improved patient outcomes, incentivizing a focus on comprehensive, holistic well-being. Performance-based incentives will further encourage quality improvement throughout the implementation period.

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How We Help Medicaid & Long-Term Services and Supports

NCQA

Service Coordination and Monitoring: “MCOs did not adequately coordinate or monitor beneficiaries’ quality of care.” Measuring and Improving Performance: Organizations perform continuous quality improvement of their LTSS program and identify actionable steps to improve care for their members.

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6 Company Leaders On What The Medicaid Access Rule Means For The Future Of Home Care

Home Health Care

Moreover, the current fee-for-service model does not allow us to adopt innovative approaches such as value-based care, which could benefit our clients and align with the services provided by our home health partners. Cleamon Moorer Jr.,

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The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality

Briggs Healthcare

“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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5 Ways Federated Computing Can Reshape Public Health

HIT Consultant

Unlocking data silos using Federated Computing (FC) has the potential to achieve a positive impact across the healthcare industry, ranging from clinical care quality improvement and accreditation to population health management, precision public health and equitable drug development.

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

Briggs Healthcare

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. and face increasingly severe enforcement actions if improvement is not demonstrated.

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