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How to Improve Your VBP Scores and Boost Medicare Payments

Home Health Care

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. But how will they do it? So it could be dyspnea.

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[Press Release] White Plains Hospital Pioneers First High Reliability Approach

Readiness Rounds

White Plains Hospital First in the Country To Adopt Innovative System-Wide Platform To Enhance Patient Safety, Experience, and Quality of Care. New Program Takes the Hospital’s Exceptional Care to the Next Level. In today’s healthcare marketplace, patients have a choice. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.

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[Press Release] White Plains Hospital Pioneers First High Reliability Approach

Readiness Rounds

White Plains Hospital First in the Country To Adopt Innovative System-Wide Platform To Enhance Patient Safety, Experience, and Quality of Care. New Program Takes the Hospital’s Exceptional Care to the Next Level. In today’s healthcare marketplace, patients have a choice. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.

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First Do No Harm

Briggs Healthcare

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. Michelle Schreiber, MD.,

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[In The News] The Power of Well Screen’s Automated Entrance Management System Goes Mobile for Online Screenings and Check-ins

Readiness Rounds

Well Screen , the entrance management technology used to screen 10 million staff and visitors per year by hospitals and healthcare systems on-site is now available via a mobile application. When healthcare facilities protect people entering their buildings, they also improve their quality of care and patient experience.

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How Effective Patient Communication Boards Improve Safety & HCAHPS Scores

Readiness Rounds

Patient communication boards play a pivotal role in enhancing both patient satisfaction and a hospital's HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) score and star rating. Do you ever question the effectiveness of your hospital's communication boards?

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The Growing Importance of Healthcare Informatics With Joe Cagliostro | Episode 50

Vie Healthcare

In this episode, Jim Cagliostro, VIE’s Clinical Operations Performance Improvement Expert, interviewed Joe Cagliostro to discuss the benefits technology offers healthcare. These benefits include patient safety, Joe’s role in bridging the gap between IT and nursing, virtual resources for novice nurses, and how to encourage staff buy-in.