Patient Safety Movement

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Joe’s passion for patient safety has been a driving force behind breakthrough developments in medical innovation at the company he founded, Masimo. These efforts are intended to complement previous investments in services to prevent unnecessary nursing home admissions and help nursing home residents transition back home when possible.

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Patient Safety Movement

JULY 25, 2023

Don Berwick—one of the original giants in patient safety and a founding member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement—gave an inspiring keynote address. First, he recognized the superb healthcare force we have in the US, how dedicated they are, and how frustrated they are by the avoidable harm to patients that is occurring.

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 17, 2023

Medicare-certified hospitals have a regulatory obligation to care for patients in a safe setting under the Medicare Hospital Conditions of Participation at §482.13(c)(2). Reducing these common deficiencies increases the quality of care for people with Medicare and Medicaid.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Tom Wriggins, Principal Industry Advisor at SAS John Maynard, CPA, CFE, AHFI Principal Solutions Architect at SAS In 2022, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) established health equity as a pillar of its future work. Understandably, Medicaid and Medicare agencies attempt to reduce that abrasion.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 6, 2022

During the first phase of the pandemic, both patients and providers embraced remote care, prompting an incredible spike in utilization – approximately 63 times pre-pandemic baseline levels among Medicare patients, new CMS data reveals. This is a troubling trend that must be reversed.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 20, 2023

and Jonathan Blum, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services – names you may recognize from CMS National Stakeholder Calls. Ensuring patient safety is at the heart of the Hippocratic Oath: First, Do No Harm. Protecting patients must always remain our first priority. The authors are Lee Fleisher, MD.,

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Home Health Care

MAY 30, 2022

As part of their work, OIG investigators examined medical records for a random sample of 770 Medicare patients discharged from acute care hospitals during October 2018 – a period of relative normalcy long before the COVID-19 crisis. For nearly 25% of those individuals, the “harm events” resulted in additional costs to Medicare.

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Bill Of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

For instance, in 2019, the AMA urged Congress to remove the very caps on Medicare-funded residency slots it helped create. Promoting these policies was a mistake, but an understandable one: the AMA believed an influential report that warned of an impending physician surplus. To its credit, in recent years, the AMA has largely reversed course.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It was established with the goal of improving the quality of health care services and patient safety through accreditation and certification programs. ACHC is recognized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as a deeming authority for home health and hospice.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 24, 2022

Nurses and providers typically assess patient acuity and volume at the beginning of their shift, whether formally or informally. Managers use patient acuity to balance nursing assignments, and nursing staff uses it to determine which patient care action should be prioritized next.

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Healthcare Leadership

APRIL 24, 2023

Addressing transitional care is important because it is a time when patients are vulnerable. This tweet in particular stood out for me: Can I just mention how fragmented and piecemeal the US Healthcare system (and Medicare) is when it comes to handling hospice arrangements? Naylor M, Keating SA. Valverde, P.A., Leonard, C.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

However, it is incumbent on the leadership at these healthcare facilities to ensure they provide adequate training, sufficient staffing levels, and ongoing assessment of patients and residents for aggressive behavior and indicators to adapt their care interventions and environment appropriately.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 7, 2022

CMS issued a Press Release this afternoon after this morning’s posting of QSO-22-15-NH & NLTC & LSC : “The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is taking steps to continue to protect nursing home residents’ health and safety by announcing guidance that restores certain minimum standards for compliance with CMS requirements.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment grows, providers need to prove their agency’s value in order to maintain a sustainable business. Everything is there: the economics, patient safety and people want to stay home. That’s going to likely cover — especially after PDGM — significantly more than 60 days of home health care.

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Sheppard Health Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For instance, OIG recommends that oversight of quality and patient safety activities be incorporated into a company’s compliance programs and that an organization’s board should require regular reports on compliance in these areas from the responsible senior leadership.

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Prior to COVID, policymakers and the medical industry had many assumptions about telehealth related to patient safety, quality of care, fraud, and provider and patient openness to virtual medical encounters. The national scope of practice reform would require states to allow non-physician providers (e.g.,

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 31, 2022

He was in charge of overseeing one of the largest skilled nursing and long-term care providers, operating almost 400 facilities in 26 states. Prior to joining InnovAge as CMO, Feifer served in various leadership roles at Genesis HealthCare. His most recent role at the company was executive vice president and CMO.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Philips was my first foray into health care and more specifically, acute care and patient monitoring. A big problem within acute care is alarm fatigue for nurses. Innovating around smarter alarm management and actionable insights for nurses is what I was doing. It was a sequence of events.

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KHN

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Experts and lawmakers say the FDA needs to find a way to detect safety problems quicker. have tried for years to persuade the agency to add unique device identifiers to Medicare payment claim forms to help track products that fail. ” said Mara Schwartz, who is a nurse, diabetes educator, and pump user.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 22, 2022

In February 2022, President Biden announced a comprehensive set of reforms to improve the safety and quality of nursing home care, hold nursing homes accountable for the care they provide, and make the quality of care and facility ownership more transparent so that potential residents and their loved ones can make informed care choices. [1]

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been putting together its guidance to help steer that process. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) also released interim vaccine rules for companies with 100 or more employees on Thursday. The Biden-Harris administration announced in September that all U.S.

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Etactics

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In the United States, there are over 26,500 nursing homes. Such issues may include navigating billing models, payer requirements, and complicated Medicare guidelines. Patients with Alzheimer’s disease or other cognitive issues. State Medicaid and Medicare Part D plans make up the primary payers. Medicare Part B.

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Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

During his speech, Joe provided an overview of the PCAST report recommendations, the current state of patient safety efforts and strategies for reaching ZERO, and issues around opioid safety. Through this year’s slogan “Elevate the voice of patients!” More than 40 percent of these events are due to preventable errors.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

North Carolina’s comprehensive behavioral health approach included efforts to increase uptake of CoCM through additional training and practice supports and Medicaid rate increases to 120% of Medicare rates for behavioral health providers. An action plan dashboard tracks targets. CMS’s Birth to 5: Watch Me Thrive!

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 14, 2023

The budget details a blueprint to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out, lower costs for families, protect and strengthen Medicare and Social Security, and reduce the deficit by ensuring the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share—all while ensuring no one making less than $400,000 per year pays more in taxes.

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 6, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Better infection surveillance and trained surveyors are also necessary to keep nursing homes safe and accountable. For too long CDC’s HAI tracking system, the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), has not required surveillance of infection outbreaks in nursing homes.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Biden-Harris Administration is requiring COVID-19 vaccination of eligible staff at health care facilities that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The regulation will create a consistent standard within Medicare and Medicaid while giving patients assurance of the vaccination status of those delivering care.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

There are 2 facilities hyperlinks which send you to the same page (CMS provider types) and 1 nursing home hyperlink. New action will protect patients of the 50,000 providers and over 17 million health care workers in Medicare and Medicaid certified facilities. There is no higher priority for us than patient health and safety.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 16, 2023

care.ai, an advanced Smart Care Facility Platform partners with Samsung to bring the highest quality graphics and display to care settings, elevating the patient experience by transforming hospitals, nursing homes and care facilities with smarter, more responsive care environments.

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Patient Safety Movement

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

We at the Patient Safety Movement Foundation are known for our recognition of loved ones who have lost someone from preventable harm in healthcare. I would especially like to recognize those physicians and nurses who have made a point of coming to these battle areas from the safety of their homes. For example, H.R.

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NASHP

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Louisiana Department of Health has partnered with hospitals in implementing the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) patient safety bundle on obstetric care for women with OUD. [25] 25] These bundles are designed to improve maternal health outcomes through education, care coordination, and patient safety protocols.

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p3care

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The significance of medical credentialing works out in countless ways from securing patient outcomes to avoiding lost reimbursement opportunities fines and penalties to encourage streamlined working culture as per the best standards in the Healthcare facilities. Credentialing Protects Your Patients Safety.

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p3care

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The significance of medical credentialing works out in countless ways from securing patient outcomes to avoiding lost reimbursement opportunities fines and penalties to encouraging streamlined working culture as per the best standards in the Healthcare facilities. Credentialing Protects Your Patients Safety.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

New action will protect patients of the 50,000 providers and over 17 million health care workers in Medicare and Medicaid certified facilities. There is no higher priority for us than patient health and safety. Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. with higher incidence of COVID-19.

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KHN

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

She cited a “revenue maximization” policy that mandated medical staffers see at least 25 patients a day, up from 16 to 18 before the takeover. ” The covid-19 pandemic had highlighted the “tragic impact” of staffing cuts and other moneysaving tactics in nursing homes, the statement said.

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KHN

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

She cited a “revenue maximization” policy that mandated medical staffers see at least 25 patients a day, up from 16 to 18 before the takeover. ” The covid-19 pandemic had highlighted the “tragic impact” of staffing cuts and other moneysaving tactics in nursing homes, the statement said.

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