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

Briggs Healthcare

CMS is seeking input from the rural community on specific proposed REH standards, including the ability of an REH to provide low-risk childbirth-related labor and delivery services and whether CMS should require that an REH also provide outpatient surgical services in the event that surgical labor and delivery intervention is necessary.

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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. Another report revealed that nearly 1 in 4 Medicare patients have experienced harm in the hospital.

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End of Life Care with Seung Eli Oh | E. 92

Vie Healthcare

You know, your primary doctor was probably the only doctor in your village who came and came to your home. And it’s all done by doctors, which there really isn’t that much training, to be honest. And it’s all done by doctors, which there really isn’t that much training, to be honest. So it’s much more secular now.

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The Critical Role of Clinical Research in Patient Care with Todd Nicklas | E. 84

Vie Healthcare

And the reason I wanted to lead with that or categorize that is because when I was a research nurse for many years in the hospital, you’re working with sometimes doctors that really love the research that you’re doing and are an investigator with that research. And then the doctor would say, “Well, when would that occur?

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How Effective Patient Communication Boards Improve Safety & HCAHPS Scores

Readiness Rounds

PATIENT SAFETY: Patient communication boards improve patient safety in hospitals in several ways: Enhance Communication Between Patient and Care Team: These boards enhance communication between patients, nurses, doctors and other hospital staff by providing a consistent visual and accessible means of conveying important information.

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

Vie Healthcare

I’m also big into educating and empowering more people on ways they can live healthier lives and avoid preventable disease. I’m also big into educating and empowering more people on ways they can live healthier lives and avoid preventable disease. So those issues are very important to me and increasingly a priority focus.

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Serving Adults With Autism With Nathan Myers RN, BSN, CDDN | Episode 56

Vie Healthcare

In this episode, Jim Cagliostro, VIE Healthcare’s Clinical Operations Performance Improvement Expert, interviewed Nate Myers to discuss his experience serving adults with autism. Nate observed that the prevalence of autism has increased, but individuals are not always getting the routine, preventative care they need. ‘’And

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