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Improving HCAHPS: The Impact of Your Hospital Environment

Readiness Rounds

How Patient Satisfaction (HCAHPS) is Impacted by the Hospital’s Physical Environment Patient satisfaction and HCAHPS improvements go far beyond medical expertise or outcome. The hospital environment plays a pivotal role in shaping a patient's (and visitors) experience and overall satisfaction.

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Executive Leadership Rounds: 9 Steps to Improve HCAHPS + Staff Engagement & Retention

Readiness Rounds

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

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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. 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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Using AI to Enhance the Hospital Supply Chain with Mara Cairo | E. 104

Vie Healthcare

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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CMS Action to Expand Access to Emergency Care Services in Rural Communities  

Briggs Healthcare

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].