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Newsletter, February 2024

Patient Safety Movement

” Joe Kiani, Founder Patient Safety Movement Foundation Letter from CEO In many parts of the world, February is the month for celebrating love. The Patient Safety Leadership Association is expected to play a key role in furthering the action plan set forth at the Mid-Year Event. “I believe in persistence.

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Empowering Healthcare Heroes: The Vital Role of Crisis-Ready Workforce Management Platforms

HIT Consultant

In recent years as hospitals were inundated with and figuring out quarantine, testing units and more, those that leveraged a workforce management platform were better equipped to maintain compliance with schedule regulations/overtime and state-based pay policies.

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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Safety of Older Adults Residing in Nursing Homes

Briggs Healthcare

The purpose of this primer is to provide updated information to the patient safety community about the challenges of ensuring the safe care of older adults in Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes (NHs) associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, and the federal and state efforts taken to mitigate these challenges.

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Newsletter, January 2024

Patient Safety Movement

“Make your commitment to ZERO… starting with culture of safety from your executive governing board down to the lowest paid employees.” In medicine, thousands of patients sustain preventable harm, and yet we do not know the actual number, as very little is reported.

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Top 7 Healthcare Focus Areas for Mastering Modern CPQ Technology in 2024

HIT Consultant

Manual process handling leads to inefficiencies, higher error rates, and compromised patient safety. The quality of care has become diluted. Facilitating Compliance and Regulatory Adherence Healthcare is an industry governed by stringent regulations and compliance requirements.

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CMS Staffing Study to Inform Minimum Staffing Requirements for Nursing Homes

Briggs Healthcare

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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Toward a Broader Telehealth Licensing Scheme

Bill Of Health

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.