Wed.Feb 23, 2022

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Yet another survey shows pandemic's persisting toll on healthcare workforce

Health Care Dive

Over half of the healthcare workers recently surveyed by USA Today and Ipsos Research said they are burned out, and 39% agree with the statement: "The American healthcare system is on the verge of collapse.

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MyMichigan Health joining 80-plus health systems in expanding hospital at home program

Healthcare It News

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Sanofi and GSK, after delays, to seek clearance for COVID-19 vaccine

Health Care Dive

The companies' vaccine provided strong protection against severe illness in a large clinical trial. The long-awaited results could position it as a booster for people who have received other shots.

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HCAOA Highlights 6 Key Policy Priorities for the Home Care Industry

Home Health Care

Policy and regulations for home care haven’t kept pace with the growing demand for services and the overall increased visibility of the sector. For policymakers looking to address industry challenges and ultimately increase access to home care, there are six policy priorities that should be considered, a new report released Wednesday by the Home Care Association of America (HCAOA) suggests.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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Teladoc issues strong outlook as 2021 revenue tops $2B

Health Care Dive

But market uncertainty and expected growth weighted in the back half of 2022 sent the company's stock slumping in aftermarket trading Tuesday.

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Policy Momentum, PE Interest Could Spur Major Growth for PACE

Home Health Care

The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) model performed especially well amid the COVID-19 emergency. Building off of that momentum, it’s likely that the model will continue to make inroads throughout 2022. “What a great world we’re in for PACE expansion — I think it started with COVID,” Jade Gong, founder and principal of consulting firm Jade Gong & Associates, told Home Health Care News.

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Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy’s new website!

Healthcare ECONOMIST

FTI Consulting’s Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy has a new website: FTIchep.com. The website highlights our key staff, services and recent publications. Check it out!

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Medical Distancing Is Bad For Your Health

Health Populi

“Social distancing is great. Medical distancing? Not so much,” I observe in Medical Distancing in America: A Lingering Pandemic Side Effect., my essay published this week in Medecision’s Liberate Health blog. Since we learned to spell “coronavirus,” we also learned the meaning and risk-managing importance of physical distance early in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy

Bill Of Health

By? Ameet Sarpatwari , Alexander Egilman , Beatrice Brown, and? Aaron S. Kesselheim. Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues. Below are the citations for papers identified from the month of January.

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Amedisys Keeps M&A Focus on Home Health, Acquires Additional Assets in Mid-Atlantic

Home Health Care

Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) has entered into an agreement to acquire the home health assets of AssistedCare Home Health and RH Homecare Services, the latter of which conducts business as AssistedCare of the Carolinas. The agreement marks the second acquisitive move that Amedisys has made in the month of February alone, again signaling a jump-start of the company’s home health M&A engine in 2022.

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs

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Laying the Groundwork for Cover All Coloradans

Center for Health Progress

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This famous MLK quote has been on a regular loop in my mind as we head into another election year, another legislative session, and celebrate the struggles and triumphs of Black people in America during Black History Month and beyond. As activists, the struggle for change can sometimes seem so overwhelming and insurmountable until we remember just how far we have come.

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Amy King Joins MEDI Leadership as Executive Coach to Healthcare Leaders

Medi Leadership

St. Louis, MO — MEDI Leadership announces the addition of Amy King as executive coach to healthcare leaders and teams, in response to rising demand for leadership and culture transformation in healthcare. In this role, King helps organizations navigate evolving market conditions to better serve patients, build high-performing teams and thriving careers.

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CMS Updates LTC Survey Process Again (3rd Time in 30 Days)

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The latest update to the LTCSP was posted late in the day Tuesday, February 22, 2022: [Note: If you print the above Revision History document found beneath the hyperlink, you need only print the first 2 pages as page 3 on this version of the history has only the title of the document found on the other 2 pages.

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[Radio] “How GoMo Health is Changing Health Care Delivery” with Bob Gold & James J. Lewis III

GoMoHealth

Watch as James J. Lewis III of The Lance Jay Radio Healthcast interviews GoMo Health CEO Bob Gold, calling him a “Criminal Mastermind of Healthcare Disruption.”. Bob discusses the inspiration behind GoMo Health and what led him to create BehavioralRx® , GoMo Health’s proprietary science of engagement, which works to activate people in their own self-care and change the dynamics of healthcare delivery and outcomes.

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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Inclement Weather Updates for 2/23 and 2/24

Healthcare Associates

Our locations will close early on Wednesday and be closed all of Thursday due to inclement weather. If you have an appointment scheduled for one of these days, no action is needed on your part. Patients with an appointment these days will be contacted to reschedule their appointment or, if available, set up a televisit. If you do not hear from us in a timely manner, please call our office.

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Why The Future of Healthcare Interfaces is Fluid

HIT Consultant

Sajjad Kamal, Healthtech Partner at Global Ventures Nazmus Saquib, HCI & Interfaces Expert. Tools we use to do our daily work have rapidly evolved following deep human-computer interaction (HCI) research. However, when it comes to healthcare, the HCI research has not found its way to healthcare practice. Most healthcare professionals still rely on memory, experience, pen & paper and difficult-to-use healthcare software.

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[Radio] “Digital Therapeutics in Health Care” with Bob Gold & James J. Lewis III

GoMoHealth

In this conversation, hosted by James J. Lewis III, Bob Gold discusses strategies for getting the most out of your doctor’s appointment, what to bring, how to prepare, engage, and follow up. Bob also discusses the importance of perspective – building confidence and self-efficacy, realistic goal-setting with a proposed healthcare plan, improving outlook, and its impact on compliance and success.

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Morning Headlines 2/24/22

HIStalk

Minded, a telehealth platform specializing in managing mental health medication,

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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!

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Five-Star Preview Reports Available

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Five Star Preview Reports will be available on February 22, 2022. To access these reports, select the CASPER Reporting link located on the CMS QIES Systems for Providers page. Once in the CASPER Reporting system, select the ‘Folders’ button, then select ‘My Inbox’ or the Inbox beginning with ‘LTC’ and the state abbreviation followed by a facility ID.

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HIStalk Interviews Patty Hayward, VP, Talkdesk

HIStalk

Patty Hayward, MA is VP of strategy, healthcare and life.

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Nursing Home Compare Five-Star Quality Rating System: Technical Users’ Guide State-Level Health Inspection Cut Point Table – February 2022 Update

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted the February 2022 State-Level Inspection Cut Point Table. This document – Five Star Quality Rating System Technical Users’ Guide: State Level Health Inspection Cut Point Table – provides the data for the state-level cut points for the star ratings included in the health inspection domain.

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How can data and technology support Integrated Care Systems?

Life Qi

The NHS is creating Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) across England, which will enable place-based, joined up care across localities, as set out in the Long Term Plan. There are many challenges that these new ICSs and their leaders will face, not least tackling the backlog of planned appointments and clinics held up by the pandemic and the fact that populations are living longer and with multiple health conditions.

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.

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Black Health & Wellness Roundtable with CMS Administrator

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. You are cordially invited by Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to attend a special live-streamed virtual roundtable discussion to acknowledge Black History Month. Administrator Brooks-LaSure is the first Black woman to serve as Administrator of CMS and has made health equity a top priority of the agency which provides health coverage to 150 million people nationwide throug