Home Health Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Since CMS standardized it in 2018, Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement program, or QAPI, has served as a guiding light for home-based care providers. The program is the process by which a home-based care provider measures its quality metrics. What we are doing today will affect the 2025 payment.”

Medicare 96

Medicare Performance improvement Quality Assurance Quality Improvement 96

Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 20, 2023

Ensuring patient safety is at the heart of the Hippocratic Oath: First, Do No Harm. As the nation’s largest payer for health care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) mission in our National Quality Strategy includes ensuring everyone is safe when they receive care. The authors are Lee Fleisher, MD.,

Patient Safety 40

Patient Safety Medicaid Medicare Quality of Care 40

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The star ratings are based upon OASIS measures — such as how often the home health team taught patients about their drugs — and claims-based measures, such as how often home health patients had to be admitted to the hospital. The data used for our study were obtained from the CMS Home Health Compare dataset.

Patient Safety 90

Patient Safety Performance improvement Quality Improvement Accountability 90

Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

” And so what I would say mainly, especially to employers, to hospital systems, there’s always been sort of a stigma about online. We have accreditation programs that really work to make sure that that variance in quality is very narrow. We always work to have high quality graduates. Now you need online education.”

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Nursing Doctors Performance improvement 52

NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

It is operational across 231 hospitals and medical practice sites in the U.S. New York City’s Supportive Transition and Recovery Team (NYC START) program is a free suite of services using the Critical Time Intervention model offered to young adults between ages 16 and 30 who are hospitalized for a first-episode psychosis.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Integration Primary Care Nursing 52