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Changes to Readmissions Rule Will Help, But No Panacea
CMS has proposed a change that would have it consider a hospital’s proportion of dual-eligibles when determining penalties under Medicare’s Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP), a change welcomed by hospitals that have long argued dual-eligible patients are more expensive for hospitals and skewing readmissions figures for safety-net hospitals.
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Communication Challenges Can Threaten Quality
Language barriers may be commonly recognized as threats to quality of care and patient safety, and hospitals routinely provide resources to overcome that barrier. But communication challenges can come in many forms and hospitals often are blind to them, leading to serious risks, one expert cautions.
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Smartphone Alerts for Lab Results Speed ED Discharge
Delivering lab results immediately to a specially provided smartphone helps physicians discharge patients significantly faster from the ED, according to recent research.
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Board Members Involved in Quality Can Be Quality Resource
Quality improvement leaders should strive for a working relationship with hospital boards of directors and help the members gain the knowledge necessary to be meaningful champions of quality initiatives. However, that does not mean that board members should be expected to participate in the day-to-day efforts to improve quality and patient safety.
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Industry Group Calls on Trump to Ease Regulation
A leading group in the healthcare industry is calling on President Donald Trump to make American healthcare great again by reducing the regulatory burden.
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Gender Disparities Seen Most in Addiction Treatment
Gender disparities in healthcare are most likely to be related to follow-up care for alcohol and drug treatment, according to a report released by the CMS Office of Minority Health.
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Patients Using Yelp to Choose Hospitals
With people using online reviews to choose nearly everything they buy, they eventually had to get around to including hospitals. A report from the Manhattan Institute and funded by the New York State Health Foundation suggests that Yelp can be useful in guiding patients to hospitals with better quality.
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HHS Says CMS Should Look Harder for Cheating Hospitals
Most hospitals are playing fair when it comes to reporting quality data, but CMS needs to look harder for those that are gaming the system with inaccurate information, according to a recent report from the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Hospitals Working on Becoming More Age-friendly
Hospitals across the country are working toward creating a culture that provides better quality care to aging Americans, with the aid of The John A. Hartford Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization.
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Guide Available for Including Informal Caregivers
Hospital leaders seeking guidance on how to integrate friends and family as informal caregivers at discharge can consult a resource made available by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) and Patients for Patient Safety Canada (PFPSC).