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

Briggs Healthcare

The overall policy goal of this proposed rule is to establish Conditions of Participation (CoPs) to ensure the health and safety of patients who will receive REH services in the most efficient manner possible, while taking into consideration the access and quality of care needs of an REH’s patient population.

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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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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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Sustainability and Value: State Palliative Care Reimbursement Strategies

NASHP

State health reform efforts increasingly focus on providing comprehensive and well-coordinated care to people with serious illness to improve quality of care and drive down costs. Read the full patient stories on the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) website. advance care screening) were performed.

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Recognizing the Role of Caregiver with Melissa Fisher | E. 79

Vie Healthcare

Episode Introduction Melissa shares the four challenges faced by caregivers today, calls on doctors to recognize family and patients as a ‘’unit’’, and highlights the ‘’unpaid, untrained, overwhelmed, burned-out’’ reality of caregiving. It’s initiated, not as a preventative or proactive planned thing. Really, they’re not.

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HIMSS22 Day 2 Roundup: Google Partners with MEDITECH, Microsoft’s Health Cloud Strategy Expansions

HIT Consultant

Patients will use an AI search engine with natural language processing (NLP) to find doctors, specialties, conditions and more, and then directly in the search results be able to book an appointment through Stericycle’s digital scheduling platform. Venture Capital Funding. FDB Launches FDB Vela.