Healthcare It News

JUNE 3, 2022

The emergency room is a stressful and unplanned way to begin a patient journey, and the Ruth and Harry Roman Emergency Department at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles is one of the nation's busiest. THE PROBLEM. Staff wanted their patients to feel supported and heard, so instead of relying solely on post-discharge/post-transfer insights, they committed to collecting real-time feedback to better understand patient needs and quickly implement changes to improve the patient experience.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 3, 2022

The data provides a snapshot of early 2022 when COVID-19 infections dropped and patients seemed more willing to return to the doctor's office.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 3, 2022

Since California expanded health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, a large number of people have been mistakenly bounced between Covered California, the state’s marketplace for those who buy their own insurance, and Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program for low-income residents. Small income changes can cause people’s eligibility to shift, but when bad information is typed into a computer system shared by the two programs — or accurate information is deleted from i

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 3, 2022

The amount reflects the third-straight year of massive insurer rebates as payers experienced high profits from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 3, 2022

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 3, 2022

The agency said the separate deals in Utah and New Jersey would reduce competition and raise prices.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 3, 2022

Stronger-than-expected economic recovery from COVID-19 pushed back Medicare's go-broke date by two years, though budget hawks are warning the sunnier outlook might rely on outdated assumptions.

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Healthcare Associates

JUNE 3, 2022

Beat the Heat for Older Adults. Seniors are often at higher risk for heat-related illnesses like sunstroke due to how their bodies regulate temperature less efficiently than younger adults. If you are over the age of 65, follow these six effective ways to “beat the heat for seniors” to stay safe and feel more comfortable in the sweltering Texas summer heat. 1.

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 3, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted the Nursing Home COVID-19 data for the week ending May 22, 2022. Comparing the May 22 nd data to the previous May 15 th data shows these changes: Resident vaccination rate again remained the same as the 4 previous weeks Residents with booster doses increased by 0.2% this past week Staff vaccination rate increased by 0.1% this past week Staff with booster doses increased by 0.5% this past week An additional 9,7

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 3, 2022

What You Should Know: – A new PwC report offers insights into how pharma companies can translate game-changing science into greater returns. – Despite many major therapeutic advancements within the last decade, returns from pharma companies lagged the S&P 500 by about one-third and biotech underperformed by 60 percent. The stock performance divide between the front and back of the pack has been widening.

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The Rand Blog

JUNE 3, 2022

This weekly recap focuses what the scientific evidence says about gun laws, a potential pathway toward peace in Ukraine, helping incarcerated parents, and more.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 3, 2022

This article is sponsored by Element5. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Eric Gordon, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Element5, to learn why post-acute care organizations are turning increasingly to automation tools to make staff and patients happier. He shares the easiest workflows to automate, and offers why he believes 2022 in home-based care will be the year when the industry changes how business gets done.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JUNE 3, 2022

That is part due to the squeeze on generic drug pricing from group purchasing organizations and others. This 60 Minutes report is interesting.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 3, 2022

Staffing still might be the biggest challenge for Briggs Home Care, but the company is taking a unique approach in order to recruit new talent. Instead of going down the traditional path to find new caregivers, the Iowa-based home care provider has started to cast a wide net for workers by reaching out to church groups and similar community organizations.

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CDC

JUNE 3, 2022

Denise Cardo, MD Director, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The past two years have been an extraordinary time for the U.S. healthcare system and public health. Many healthcare facilities and healthcare workers were pushed to the brink—facing incredible hurdles during the COVID-19 pandemic, including increased patient caseload, staffing challenges, and other operational changes

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 3, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. NAHCA is excited to announce the launch of a new seminar focused on ?emergency preparedness! Created in partnership with the Arizona Health Care Association, All Hands on Deck: A Frontline Focus on Emergency Preparedness in Long Term Care is a three-hour event that examines the following components of essential emergency preparedness: Nursing Home Incident Command System The Steps of Emergency Management Emotional Resilience

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JUNE 3, 2022

Accelerated Approval Drugs are not driving Medicaid spending. Monkeypox outbreak? 3D-printed ear. E-commerce ’s impact on retail. The safety net and violence. Why Aren’t People Leaving Janesville ? California: Eligibility determination and computer errors for Medi-Cal vs. Covered California.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 3, 2022

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), increasing the financial and health burden affecting these vulnerable populations. To reverse this trend will require not only resources, but also new business models for LMICs that can overcome the barriers patients face to receiving care, such as unaffordable, unavailable, or inaccessible healthcare services and treatments, and limited awareness of disease and preventative care.

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Vie Healthcare

JUNE 3, 2022

In Episode 47 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience, Lisa is joined by Jim Cagliostro, a Registered Nurse and VIE’s Clinical Operations Performance Improvement Expert. Together they discuss the evolving role of nursing in today’s healthcare organizations and its inherent challenges. Episode Introduction. The role of nursing has undergone a transformation in recent years, accelerated by COVID.

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NASHP

JUNE 3, 2022

Utah’s Crisis Worker Certification: Successes and Lessons Learned June 3, 2022/by Eliza Mette and Jodi Manz. Recent federal investments have placed mental health crisis services under a national spotlight and incentivized states to support the delivery of these services. States are under increasing pressure to prepare and develop their workforce across the crisis continuum as demand for these services surges and the behavioral health workforce shortage persists.

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 3, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The FDA has identified this as a Class I recall, the most serious type of recall. Use of these devices may cause serious injuries or death. Recalled Product. Product Name: ArjoHuntleigh Polska Sara Plus floor lift Product Serial Numbers: See recall database entry Manufactured Dates: October 13, 2016, to January 13, 2022; Other units that received spare parts (printed circuit board) through March 4, 2022 Devices Recalled in th

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Home Health Care

JUNE 3, 2022

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – through the U.S Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) – announced that states would have an additional year to use funding from the American Rescue Plan to both enhance and expand home- and community-based services (HCBS). The news is major for home-based care providers, as the federal government is committing to further and prolonged support for HCBS in general.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 3, 2022

Medicare funds – which are the largest payer of home health care services – are not running out quite as fast as previously predicted. After a stronger economic recovery from the height of the COVID-19 pandemic than previously expected, the year in which Medicare will no longer have the funds to fully pay out what it needs to has been moved back by two years, according to a government report.

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