NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

California does cover skilled nursing facility care in its MLTSS program, but most personal care services (in-home supportive services) are provided under FFS. Encouraging the provision of HCBS should lead to more people receiving the services and support they need at home rather than in more costly nursing facilities.

Medicaid 76

Medicaid Nursing Medicare Integration 76

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Without a holistic strategy that integrates both health system management and clinical decision support technology, attempts at reform can only get hospitals so far. Meanwhile, a nationwide shortage of nurses and physicians has also held back investments in glycemic event tracking metrics and stalled the transformation of hospital processes.

Hospitals 98

Hospitals Patient Safety Quality Improvement Prevention 98

HIT Consultant

JUNE 27, 2023

In other cases, hospitals turn to travel nurses to alleviate understaffing, improve workflows, and reduce time spent on inefficient tasks. A digital solution should also offer personalized integration with ongoing support, feature enhancements and updates.

Patient Safety 97

Patient Safety Doctors Hospitals Integration 97

NCQA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The GUIDE model is the first of its kind to address health care costs and target reductions in federal spending on long-term nursing home placement. And then we’re also developing an approach for certification based on quality improvement and patient experience.”

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Quality Improvement Medicaid Accountable Care 52

NCQA

JANUARY 25, 2024

Psychiatric nurse practitioners. The expansion of services and provider types in behavioral health creates a need for quality standards and quality improvement. A number of payment models now support integrated care : CMS funding of collaborative care models. Payers funding integrated healthcare models.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Quality Improvement Integration Population Health 52

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This work occurs alongside evaluating how to integrate the medical device into the hospital system’s diagnostic paradigms, including in relation to quality improvement programs. Conduct quality improvement programs and evaluate new technologies, for potential incorporation, to help from a compliance standpoint.

Hospitals 98

Hospitals Quality Improvement Medicaid Clinical Practice 98

Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

At DispatchHealth, our team members are integral to the success of the organization and the transformation we are making in the health care industry,” Dr. Mark Prather, co-founder and CEO of DispatchHealth, said in a press release. We are honored to welcome Mag to our executive team. AlayaCare adds chief product and technology officer.

Home Care 94

Home Care Urgent Care Nursing Integration 94

NASHP

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The “National Forum on Advancing High-Quality, Equitable Care Coordination for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs” centered on two key topics for improving care coordination systems for CYSHCN: integrated care coordination and the care coordination workforce.

Medicaid 98

Medicaid Integration Quality Improvement Accountability 98

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2023

The nursing shortage and persistent labor competition have become a long-term systemic problem, creating immense challenges for hospitals surmounting significant financial pressure. More and more medical devices are integrated with EHRs and technology stacks making it easier for patients to share data with their clinicians continually.

Hospitals 98

Hospitals Life Sciences Patient Safety Quality Improvement 98

NASHP

APRIL 17, 2023

Performance measurement is a pillar of state quality improvement and oversight. Other states, such as Colorado, establish advisory committees that provide input on all aspects of a state’s quality improvement program , including measure selection. It is often factored into plan payment, and it supports public reporting.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Quality Assurance Quality Improvement Quality Review 52

Medical GPS

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Sin #2: Treat all Patients the Same – Patients have unique goals and preferences that can be integrated into their care plan. Some patients may even feel more at ease asking questions to the nurse or medical assistant. Always encourage staff to provide an enabling and supportive environment.

Quality Improvement 52

Quality Improvement Urgent Care Patient Safety Healthcare 52

Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Rhone shares the benefits of LinkedIn as a mindset platform, the skills unique to Nursing Practitioners and how students in search of preceptorships can benefit by taking the ‘’cookie basket to the clinic’’. Episode Introduction The pandemic forced health systems to explore new ways of delivering care and education.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Nursing Doctors Performance improvement 52

NASHP

JULY 24, 2023

Evidence suggests that vertical integration and growing consolidation in health care leads to higher hospital and provider prices and higher total spending — all while having little to no impact on improving quality of care for patients, reducing utilization, or improving efficiency. Will quality improve or be maintained?

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Prevention Quality Improvement Quality of Care 52

NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

It includes examples from various states organized by the framework buckets: integrated primary and behavioral health care, crisis continuum of care, in-home and in-community based, and out-of-home and community. States have a range of tools and policy levers at their disposal to build capacity for integrated behavioral health approaches.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Integration Primary Care Nursing 52

NASHP

DECEMBER 10, 2021

integrating?CHWs CHW services could be used for many health conditions as long as there is a care plan in place written by a physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, or a certified nurse midwife. South Dakota has incorporated payment for CHW services through a State Plan Amendment. 98961 – 2 to 4 patients.

Medicaid 122

Medicaid Primary Care Prevention Nursing 122

NASHP

MAY 26, 2023

With caregivers increasingly asked to perform more intense and complex care , respite care is integral to giving caregivers a much-needed break. Although most states offer respite through Medicaid, varied program policies and payment rates among states greatly affect caregivers’ access to high-quality respite services.

Medicaid 121

Medicaid Nursing Regulations Integration 121

NASHP

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This map highlights state activity to integrate CHWs into evolving health care systems in key areas such as financing, education and training, certification, and state definitions, roles and scope of practice. South Dakota has incorporated payment for CHW services through a State Plan Amendment. 98961 – 2 to 4 patients.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Primary Care Prevention Nursing 52

NASHP

MARCH 28, 2022

Nursing Assistants. Typically, nursing assistants also provide personal assistance with self-care activities. Nursing assistants may perform some delegated nursing tasks under clinical supervision. A certified nurse assistant (CNA) is qualified to work in a Medicare-certified nursing facility.

Nursing 98

Nursing Medicaid Home Care Rehabilitation 98

Home Health Care

MARCH 1, 2024

Internally, we’re really trying to support the PACE community to continue to put in place internal quality improvement activities. I think in the context of PACE, there’s a lot of collaboration and a lot of integration with those sponsor services, as I call them. Those are the two biggest ones externally.

Medicaid 120

Medicaid Medicare Primary Care Quality Improvement 120

NASHP

DECEMBER 20, 2022

These coordinated state efforts, often formalized in governor’s task forces, cross-agency workgroups, and legislative commissions, are predicated on an ideological shift away from solely punitive responses and toward integrating treatment into the criminal legal system. Integrate peers into crisis response teams.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Prevention Integration Hospitals 52

NASHP

AUGUST 23, 2021

For example, to move from tier 3 to tier 4, the provider must meet all the requirements of tier 3 and several new requirements, such as having a well-established quality improvement process. Oklahoma’s care management and quality departments support the PCCM providers. Idaho also offered flexibility to providers. v] Per §438.2

Primary Care 65

Primary Care Medicaid Accountability Quality Improvement 65

Sheppard Health Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Specifically, MA enrollees enjoy an appeal right which is normally triggered when the MA organization delivers a Notice of Medicare Non-Coverage (“NOMNC”) relating to certain non-hospital provider services, including services in a home health agency, skilled nursing facility, or a comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facility. [2]

Medicare 59

Medicare Medicaid Regulations Integration 59

NASHP

JUNE 22, 2022

Recruit providers to support system improvements. Support quality improvement efforts. Guide quality measurement and evaluation. Advise on evidence-based improvement practices. [1] 1] National Improvement Partnership Network. Establishing a Child Health Improvement Partnership: A How-to Guide.

Care Transition 52

Care Transition Medicaid Doctors Regulations 52

Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

So as well as needing the knowledge of Quality Improvement we also need the consequent skills of understanding implementation science and as important as ever, the intricacies of ergonomics and human factors and the science of behaviour when under stress.

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Prevention Hospitals Healthcare 52

Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 1, 2022

The President believes we must improve the quality of our nursing homes so that seniors, people with disabilities, and others living in nursing homes get the reliable, high-quality care they deserve. million people live in over 15,500 Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes across the nation.

Quality of Care 40

Quality of Care Nursing Accountability Medicaid 40