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How to Improve Your VBP Scores and Boost Medicare Payments

Home Health Care

Yet while home-based care providers certainly have many excellent, technical questions, one sits above all others: How will the expansion of HHVBP affect their reimbursement? 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.

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First Do No Harm

Briggs Healthcare

Ensuring patient safety is at the heart of the Hippocratic Oath: First, Do No Harm. As the nation’s largest payer for health care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) mission in our National Quality Strategy includes ensuring everyone is safe when they receive care. Michelle Schreiber, MD.,

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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. In today’s healthcare marketplace, patients have a choice. 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. In today’s healthcare marketplace, patients have a choice. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.

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How Effective Patient Communication Boards Improve Safety & HCAHPS Scores

Readiness Rounds

This blog aims to address these uncertainties and provide insights into optimizing the use of patient communication boards. → Are you unsure whether they genuinely contribute to patient safety and enhance the overall patient experience? Do you ever question the effectiveness of your hospital's communication boards? →

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Strengthening Healthcare IT Infrastructure: A Wake-Up Call for Cybersecurity Resilience

HIT Consultant

The ransomware strike caused a chain reaction among healthcare providers, where payment systems were disrupted, cash flow halted, and—worst of all—patient safety was put in jeopardy. This latest attack didn’t just impact IT systems, administrative processes, or the bottom line; it threatened the quality of care for patients.

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The Reality & Challenges of Nursing With Jim Cagliostro (Part 1)| Episode 47

Vie Healthcare

In Episode 47 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience, Lisa is joined by Jim Cagliostro, a Registered Nurse and VIE’s Clinical Operations Performance Improvement Expert. And so I think having opportunities for nurses to get engaged in their work or to look for innovation, that can definitely prevent burnout. Show Topics.

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