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The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality

Briggs Healthcare

In this context, with support from a coalition of sponsors, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) formed the Committee on the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes to examine how the United States delivers, finances, regulates, and measures the quality of nursing home care.

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CMS Medicaid Proposals Offer Transparency And Accountability, But Compensation Provision Could Cap Business For Cash-Strapped Providers

Home Health Care

The more than 400 pages of proposed rules, certainly, contain a whole lot of regulation and, frankly, improvements to the Medicaid program that do have the potential to assure greater access to Medicaid services for beneficiaries,” Darby Anderson, chief strategy officer for Addus Homecare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS), told Home Health Care News.

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State Policy Considerations to Support Equitable Systems of Care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs 

NASHP

31 Telehealth Michigan Michigan’s Children’s Special Health Care Services Division collaborates with key statewide partners to lead the Michigan Pediatric Epilepsy Project , an initiative to improve health outcomes for children and youth with epilepsy, particularly those in rural and underserved communities.

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State Community Health Worker Models

NASHP

NCQA National Committee for Quality Assurance. 7022), in existence for over fifteen years, is a statewide network of NCQA certified Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMHs) which are supported by regional program managers, quality improvement managers, self-management program coordinators, and a regional Community Health Team (CHT).

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About This Resource Guide: Promising Practices to Address Health Disparities

NASHP

29 State health policy leaders may consider regulation a barrier to collecting race and ethnicity data in their health equity program development. 35 Data Collection Many states have specific regulations on the collection of race and ethnicity data. In addition, each state has its own laws protecting patient health information.