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Recommendations to Enhance Telemedicine in Nursing Homes in the Age of COVID-19

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Herein, we report 12 recommendations to enhance and sustain TM (Table 1) from a TM adoption study, certified as quality improvement by the UW Madison Health Sciences IRB.”. Are you already using telemedicine in your LTC facility?

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Letter From the Editor

Patient Safety

But the rest of us must work a lot harder to effect such change, and one could argue that change is especially difficult in healthcare. Also in this issue: the Patient Safety Authority’s annual analysis of all patient safety events reported in 2020 —almost 300,000, excluding healthcare-associated infections.

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Newsletter, February 2024

Patient Safety Movement

Patients, children, and healthcare workers are killed and injured. We need to bring back the sanctity of healthcare facilities and our children and take them out of battle zones. We have brutal wars going on where schools and hospitals are destroyed and used to protect combatants.

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Newsletter, March 2023

Patient Safety Movement

More than a decade ago, Joe made it his life’s purpose to eliminate preventable medical harm and create safer healthcare systems around the world. Joe will be the keynote speaker at our 10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit on June 1–2 in Newport Beach. Support those who have been harmed by a pelvic mesh.

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State Community Health Worker Models

NASHP

CHWs are included for health promotion, comprehensive transitional care, individual and family support services, and referral to community and social supports. In addition, Coordinated Care Organizations are required to include traditional healthcare workers, like CHWs, on their care teams.

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Community Health Worker Models

NASHP

CHWs are included for health promotion, comprehensive transitional care, individual and family support services, and referral to community and social supports. In addition, Coordinated Care Organizations are required to include traditional healthcare workers, like CHWs, on their care teams.