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

Vie Healthcare

I’ve become a bit of a cynic because I see my father in a nursing home, and my mom is paying $12,000 a month for his care, and the person in the bed next to him is on Medicaid and paying nothing. ” Are you getting what you need to process improve? Then hospital discharge, that needs improvement.

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Newsletter, February 2024

Patient Safety Movement

He tried and failed many times to persuade his colleagues in different hospitals in Boston before finally establishing the process. But many years before it was the nurse Florence Nightingale who taught us the importance of recording and contemporaneous note taking and even more importantly the analysis of outcome data to drive improvement.