Readiness Rounds

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In today’s blog post we're discussing how Rise & Shine–our latest regulatory compliance solution–can help hospitals deal with the tightened CMS rules on unannounced visits. This approach helps reduce findings, improves patient safety, and supports sustainable performance improvement. Headlines: 1. Key Takeaways 5.

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Nordic

JUNE 26, 2023

KaufmanHall’s Operating Margin Index (Figure 1) highlights the financial crisis hospitals are in today and how these razor thin margins are becoming the new norm in a post-pandemic environment. 1 Figure 1: Kaufman Hall Operating Margin Index YTD by Month

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 14, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Q4FY22 release of the Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) with statistics through September 2022 is now available for download through the PEPPER Resources Portal.

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Readiness Rounds

AUGUST 14, 2023

In hospitals, where patient experience is important and quality of care is non-negotiable, a subtle yet profound practice has emerged as a catalyst for positive change: Executive Leadership Rounds. Unpacking Leadership Rounds: Leadership Rounds is a dynamic practice in hospitals that brings leaders, staff, and together.

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Osf Healthcare

JULY 13, 2021

After an inpatient hospital stay, many individuals are eager to get home as soon as possible, but the process for discharge is no easy feat. Performance Improvement, with OSF Innovation, partnered with OSF HealthCare Sacred Heart Medical Center to create collaboration within the care team and optimize the process.

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Vie Healthcare

MARCH 6, 2024

Episode Introduction Mara explains why the first step towards successfully embracing AI is literacy, the challenges hospitals face in system integration and why AI isn’t intended to replace humanity in patient care. 10:41 Anticipating patient ‘’no-shows’’ Mara said machine learning can help hospitals to predict individual patient no-shows. ‘’And

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Readiness Rounds

APRIL 26, 2018

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. About White Plains Hospital. High Reliability” Initiative Ensures Consistency Across the Board. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.

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Readiness Rounds

APRIL 26, 2018

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. About White Plains Hospital. High Reliability” Initiative Ensures Consistency Across the Board. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.

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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. If a provider knows they need to focus on reducing acute-care hospitalizations, for instance, QAPI can help them do so. This makes it a highly effective approach.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 10, 2023

At-Home Health Care — Sparta Community Hospital’s home health segment — has made successful care transitions a priority in an effort to lower rehospitalizations and ER visits. Sparta Community Hospital is located in Southern Illinois and is a 25-bed full-service acute care medical facility.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

CoRead Acquisition The company also finalized the acquisition of CoRead, a leading AI quality assurance company currently being used by more than 2,000 hospital sites nationwide. Lawrence Ngo, former CEO of CoRead, will join Covera Health as Senior Vice President, Quality Assurance Platform, reporting to President Aaron Friedkin.

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Osf Healthcare

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Nationwide, death and re-hospitalization rates remain high among people with heart failure who have transitioned from in-patient to out-patient care. As a result, OSF HealthCare has made it a priority to reduce its own mortality and readmission rates among this population using innovative methods and collaborative thinking. “We

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NASHP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

After discussion with IDPH, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) also established a prenatal and postpartum care HEDIS (Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set) measure performance improvement project for Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) to identify and close a health disparity gap.

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NASHP

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In January, for the first time in its history, the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC)’s Board voted to require the Mass General Brigham (MGB) health system to submit a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) because of the system’s substantial contributions to the state’s health care cost increases.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 26, 2023

The only way we are going to enable real performance improvements and address critical issues like clinician shortages and burnout is if we simplify and streamline workflows for clinicians. Many agreed that hospitals are only taking advantage of a small percentage of the multi-million-dollar systems available to them.

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 1, 2022

Rural Emergency Hospitals (REHs) are a new provider type established by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 to address the growing concern over closures of rural hospitals. Critical Access Hospitals. For more information on Rural Emergency Hospital and Critical Access Hospital Conditions of Participation, visit: [link].

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 9, 2022

What You Should Know: – Medtronic announced a new contract with Vizient , a leading healthcare performance improvement company for more than half the nation’s healthcare providers, to offer Touch Surgery™? Vizient contract provides access to a nationwide network of hospitals.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Acumen and Abt are convening this TEP to evaluate the measurement sets across the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF), Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH), Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF), Home Health (HH), and Hospice settings, with a focus on identifying measurement gaps, and ensuring measures align with CMS program requirements and goals.

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Sheppard Health Law

DECEMBER 3, 2021

On November 12, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) revised and finalized draft guidance first issued on May 3, 2019, for co-location of hospitals with other hospitals or healthcare providers [1] (the “ Finalized Guidance ”). The Finalized Guidance also makes significant changes to the guidelines for staffing.

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Vie Healthcare

AUGUST 10, 2022

Founded in 1999, VIE Healthcare Consulting provides leading-edge financial and operational consulting for hospitals, healthcare institutions, and other providers of patient care. ” Existing VIE clients will benefit from an expanded menu of services as a result of the acquisition.

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Home Health Care

MAY 15, 2022

The IAC provides research, analytics, health policy analysis and performance improvement collaboratives for the ACO industry. Instead, it’s usually home-based primary care, home-based care coordination, transition to home, social needs care and hospital-level home care.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2022

. – Together, utilizing the cloud, Dedalus and AWS will offer customers around the world cost-optimization and agility via smart provisioning and need-based elasticity, built-in disaster recovery, as well as improved clinical system performance, reliability, availability, and security and compliance posture.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

This convergence of negative patient experience scores, employee burnout, and lost revenue is, unsurprisingly, keeping hospital and health system leaders up at night. To date, the majority of patient engagement has been driven by hospital, health system and provider priorities. Now it’s time to ask what the patient wants to do.

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Readiness Rounds

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

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. The Power of Well Screen’s Automated Entrance Management System Goes Mobile for Online Screenings and Check-ins. November 19 , 2021, Eudora, Ks.—

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 10, 2023

To obtain your SNF PEPPER , the Chief Executive Officer, President, Administrator, Compliance Officer, Quality Assurance/Performance Improvement Officer, or other authorized user within your organization (selecting a job title closest to their title) should: 1. View a map of SNF PEPPER retrievals by state.

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Nordic

AUGUST 1, 2023

At a glance: Nordic and Lawrence General Hospital (LGH) have partnered on a second phase of their initiative to continue to increase revenue and improve margins. Phase II improvements are projected to contribute $2.5M This partnership has resulted in $10.4M in annualized revenue gains for LGH, representing a 4.2%

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Readiness Rounds

MAY 29, 2018

A Performance Improvement Solution is just one piece of the high reliability healthcare puzzle, along with: Teamwork. Safety Hazards : vigilantly inspecting and documenting the safety of the hospital environment allows the facility to be resilient to safety hazards. It’s no different in a healthcare facility.

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Readiness Rounds

MAY 29, 2018

A Performance Improvement Solution is just one piece of the high reliability healthcare puzzle, along with: Teamwork. Safety Hazards : vigilantly inspecting and documenting the safety of the hospital environment allows the facility to be resilient to safety hazards. It’s no different in a healthcare facility.

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Vie Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2024

19:08 Applying economic theories to healthcare strategy Cole said education is important to help hospitals adapt to strategy. ‘’I I’ve been so privileged to sit with most of the CEOs of hospitals in the Philadelphia region. One thing I had been educated in is process improvement for hospitals, but not for ambulatory care systems.

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Readiness Rounds

JULY 31, 2023

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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Nordic

JUNE 23, 2022

A transformative engagement with Nordic Consulting helps Lawrence General Hospital achieve revenue goals. Lawrence General Hospital (LGH) faced a series of challenges with their revenue cycle operations. They were still adjusting to the new EHR when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 20, 2023

A recent study found that when a patient is admitted to the hospital, harm occurs nearly 24 percent of the time. Another report revealed that nearly 1 in 4 Medicare patients have experienced harm in the hospital. Prior to COVID-19, progress was being made to improve patient safety.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Under the model, home health providers are paid based on how well they keep their patients healthy and out of the hospital. It’s tying in the information from the OASIS, the information from the patient-experience surveys and hospital readmissions, which agencies are already focused on managing.”.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Medical respite and short term post-hospitalization housing were covered through the Section 1115 demonstration. Several states use their required QAPI terms to focus MCO efforts on housing initiatives while allowing MCOs the flexibility to design interventions.

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Readiness Rounds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Based on our extensive experience working with various hospitals, we wanted to share the important but often overlooked factors that have a big impact on both patient satisfaction and the overall experience. It's a team effort that involves every department within a hospital. However, it's crucial to see the bigger picture.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Jason Harber, Vice President of Client Services, iQueue for Inpatient Flow, LeanTaaS Every day, hospital teams are facing inpatient flow challenges like excessive emergency department surgical admit boarders. Those who will reap the most rewards will be the early adopters of these systems — and the ones who pair AI with change management.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 7, 2022

The termination of these blanket waivers will have no effect on other blanket waivers that remain in place such as those for hospitals and CAHs. Those blanket waivers remain in effect to assist hospitals and CAHs, among others, in dealing with their response to the surges of COVID-19 cases in the community.

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