Articles Tagged With: COVID-19
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Post-COVID-19 Behavioral Health for Patients and Providers
Questions about mental and behavioral health have been at the forefront of many minds, especially as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Of course, the problem did not start with COVID-19. -
Dementia Model Can Help Patients with Alzheimer’s
Patients with dementia face barriers to care, particularly for underserved communities. One possible solution is a community-based partnership approach and expansion of existing institutional and local resources. -
How a Transitional Care Leader’s Organization Survived the Pandemic Chaos
In this Q&A, Hospital Case Management asked Vera Usinowicz, APN-C, supervisor of The Center for Comprehensive Heart Failure Care at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, to discuss how her transitional care unit kept heart failure patients out of the emergency department and hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Updates to Hospital Value-Based Purchasing
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released updates and changes to its Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program. In response to the public health emergency, CMS is suppressing certain measures for 2022. -
Pharmacist-Led Transitions of Care Reduced Hospital Readmissions
An intervention that includes pharmacist-led transitions of care can significantly reduce readmissions, according to the results of recent research. Investigators found people enrolled in a pharmacist-led transitions of care clinic experienced significantly lower rates of 30-day and 90-day readmissions when compared to those without the intervention. -
Booster Doses Effective Against Omicron
While vaccination provides protection against infection with omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, high level protection from a need for hospitalization requires a booster dose.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Delayed HIV Diagnosis with Injectable PrEP; Fatal Wave of COVID-Associated Mucormycosis
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Omicron: Get Your Booster Dose!
While vaccination provides protection against the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, high-level protection from a need for hospitalization requires receipt of a booster dose.
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Nurses Risk Consequences for Spreading Misinformation
Risk managers may need to counsel nursing staff on how they could expose themselves to professional consequences if they spread health misinformation online, particularly with much attention on what people post regarding COVID-19. Nurses who post misinformation could be subject to disciplinary action from their nursing boards, in addition to other results. -
Urgent Need for ‘Universal’ Vaccines for SARS-CoV-2
There is an emerging consensus in the scientific community that is two-fold: COVID-19 is not going away anytime soon, and continuous vaccine boosters eventually could yield diminishing returns. What is needed are new, second-generation vaccines that confer broader immunity against both circulating variants and mutations yet to arise.