Home Health Care

JANUARY 27, 2023

Curating a specific plan based on a home health provider’s needs, deficiencies and vulnerabilities is key to having successful Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) programs. The performance improvement aspect, or second part, refers to the actions taken by providers.

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Quality Assurance Performance improvement Healthcare Providers Quality of Care 74

Readiness Rounds

AUGUST 28, 2023

Regulators often cite ceiling tiles. Don’t wait for the regulators before you put them right. Clutter Control: Avoid overcrowded rooms and establish an ongoing strategy to keep hallways and spaces clear and calm Dont just clear our hallways when the regulators arrive. Prioritize maintaining a welcoming environment.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Patient Safety Patient Experience Regulations 52

Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 9, 2023

Training and resources provided to nursing facilities by COE-NF includes: The CMS F-Tag Behavioral Health Regulations Trauma-informed care Suicide prevention Behavioral health equity Increasing your facility’s ability to meet Quality Assessment Performance Improvement (QAPI) goals De-escalation techniques Workforce development and Other mental health (..)

Nursing 52

Nursing Prevention Performance improvement Medicaid 52

Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 7, 2022

e)(4) CMS waived the requirement that prevents a physician from delegating a task when the regulations specify that the physician must perform it personally. Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) – 42 CFR §483.75(b)–(d) Physician Delegation of Tasks in SNFs – 42 CFR §483.30(e)(4)

Nursing 98

Nursing Quality Assurance Prevention Performance improvement 98

NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Arizona’s End of Life and Advanced Care Planning benefit is referenced in its MCO contracts and further described in state regulations. Federal Medicaid managed care regulation requires that MCOs provide enrollees with information about advance directives. pain management, cognitive impairment, physical/vocational/speech therapy).”.

Medicaid 102

Medicaid Hospice Care Integration Regulations 102

Home Health Care

MARCH 6, 2023

The Joint Commission is the health care industry’s premier performance improvement organization. Accreditation is a quality-focused market distinction that’s achieved by demonstrating your organization’s performance against a set of industry standards.

Home Care 52

Home Care Performance improvement Patient Safety Process improvement 52

NASHP

MARCH 29, 2024

49 HOME reports performance measures for the Utah Department of Health’s managed care quality strategy and supports a performance improvement project. www.hhs.texas.gov/sites/default/files/documents/laws-regulations/handbooks/mepd/archive/16-4/16-4.pdf. Pediatric Workforce Challenges and Opportunities,” August 2023.

Medicaid 124

Medicaid Quality of Care Quality Assurance Nursing 124

NASHP

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The licensure and certification of midwives is administered by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. This law creates the Licensed Certified Professional Midwife Practice Act, which licenses CPMs who perform out-of-hospital births. Implement quality and performance initiatives.

Medicaid 59

Medicaid Nursing Regulations Hospitals 59

Vie Healthcare

AUGUST 23, 2023

There are then… Of course, we talked about before with the medical device tiers, the regulations. You talk about the cost, then you talk about the time, a decade on average, and then developing and refining and thinking about all the regulations. Build a business case for that. You got to take that into account.’’

Nursing 98

Nursing Hospitals Healthcare Accountability 98

Vie Healthcare

MARCH 6, 2024

Each maybe has their own labor agreements, regulation and whatnot. Each maybe has their own labor agreements, regulation and whatnot. Since 1999, VIE has been a recognized leader in healthcare costs, hospital purchased services, healthcare benchmarking, supply chain management, and performance improvement.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Healthcare Integration Regulations 52

Vie Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2024

I’m not really one to speak on that, but you’ve seen a lot more compliance departments come up that focus on making sure we’re in compliance with legal regulations and guidelines. And those departments are separate from our general counsel. You can learn more about VIE Healthcare Consulting at viehealthcare.com. (15:29):

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Healthcare Hospitals Process improvement Ambulatory Care 98

Vie Healthcare

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In this episode, Jim Cagliostro, VIE Healthcare’s Clinical Operations Performance Improvement Expert, interviewed Nate Myers to discuss his experience serving adults with autism. Episode Introduction. So let’s be kind to each other, right?’’. Show Links. Connect with Lisa Miller on LinkedIn. I love that.

Nursing 52

Nursing Healthcare Hospitals Performance improvement 52

Vie Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2023

But, look, what they realized as they were giving these drugs to patients for type two diabetes is that in addition to helping to regulate blood sugar, people were losing crazy amounts of weight. There’s a really scientific explanation, but for one, they help to regulate blood sugar.

Doctors 52

Doctors Patient Experience Primary Care Nursing 52

NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

In addition to funding mobile response services, Connecticut has also established a Mobile Crisis Intervention Services Performance Improvement Center (PIC) to support the collection and analysis of data, implement quality improvement activities, and support providers to enhance their clinical competencies and delivery of MCIS.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Integration Primary Care Nursing 52

Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2023

And what I’ve seen over the years and what’s really jumped out at me this past year…, is that there’s a change management aspect to achieving performance improvements, like an organizational-wide cost savings initiative. One category, let’s say dietary or linen or regulated medical waste.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Hospitals Performance improvement Regulations 52

Vie Healthcare

MAY 4, 2023

So what I would say is you can’t, and particularly in healthcare where it’s such a heavily regulated business, you can’t just view compliance as a problem. It’s a highly regulated industry. So there’s that instinctual resistance to it. So again, that’s a corporate culture thing.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Nursing Hospitals Doctors 52

Vie Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

We have staff who are burdened by regulations, organizational policies and practices, by the current challenge of staffing, by the disconnect between those very highest in leadership and decision-making and what actually occurs in the moments of care delivery. Not everything is broken, but we are a system in trouble.

Patient Experience 52

Patient Experience Nursing Healthcare Hospitals 52

Vie Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In this episode, JimCagliostro, VIE’s Clinical Operations Performance Improvement Expert, interviewedRexHartman, to explore the factors that fueled his decisions to become a Travel Nurse. Episode Introduction. The shortage of nurses in healthcare was exacerbated by Covid. Okay, Rex. Jim (26:58): Sure.

Nursing 52

Nursing Hospitals Healthcare Performance improvement 52

Vie Healthcare

DECEMBER 23, 2021

And those are hospitals that stay committed to their financial performance improvement goals and their cost savings work streams. Everybody had to focus on COVID and patients and just this whole environment of how to provide healthcare in- in a pandemic. But there have been big winner in 2021.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Hospitals Performance improvement Regulations 52

Vie Healthcare

JUNE 17, 2022

In this episode, Jim Cagliostro, VIE’s Clinical Operations Performance Improvement Expert, interviewed Todd Nicklas to discuss his experience with clinical research, including the positive impact for hospitals that participate in clinical trials, overcoming patient hesitancy, and the high cost of achieving FDA approval. .”

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Doctors Healthcare Nursing 52

Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2023

Put it all around in one place, and you could have the lead or performance improvement, or even just create a new position, which I think would have a tremendous ROI just to project management, or make sure that these initiatives are housed in one place, and they get updated. Lisa Larter (16:24): Yeah, I love it.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Healthcare Doctors Accountability 52

Home Health Care

APRIL 13, 2022

Under the PHE, federal regulators have waived or modified normal requirements for Medicare and Medicaid providers, plus private health insurers. Hospice and home health agencies alike have also been allowed to pause Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) programs during the PHE.

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Quality Assurance Medicare Hospitals Medicaid 107