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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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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.

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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.

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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].

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First Do No Harm

Briggs Healthcare

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. What’s worse, a considerable portion of this is preventable.

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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?