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Most Hospitals Penalized in HRRP All Five Years
CMS penalized more than half of hospitals participating in the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program initiated by the Affordable Care Act in all five years of the program — but penalties were less common for hospitals treating the most medically complex patients, according to a recent analysis.
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CARE Act Requires Hospitals to Ask About Caregivers
The Caregiver Advise, Record, and Enable (CARE) Act requires hospitals to give inpatients the opportunity to formally identify a caregiver, such as a friend or relative, who can provide assistance with aftercare following discharge.
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Using Family as Informal Caregivers Cuts Readmissions 25%
Hospitals never seem to have enough resources, but you might be overlooking people who could be effective in improving post-discharge care and reducing readmissions: the friends and family of the patient.
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Readmissions Reduced to 7.8% with Nursing Intervention at Home
Hospitals can significantly reduce readmissions with a multilayered program tailored to the needs of individual patients, according to the experience of an Arizona health system.
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HHS OIG Offers Compliance Resource Guide
The Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) is offering a guide for measuring the effectiveness of a healthcare compliance program.
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Home Nutrition Orders Often Incorrect
Patients often are at risk of being overfed or underfed when prescribed home nutrition doesn’t meet their needs, according to research presented recently at the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) Clinical Nutrition Week (CNW) conference.
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Standardize Physician Cards for Quality, Savings
Physician preference cards are intended to keep everything moving smoothly in surgery and improve quality of care, but too often they can complicate the process without adding any benefit. When that happens, the problem usually is that the preference cards have been allowed to proliferate with little or no oversight, one expert says.
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Nursing Education Improves RRT Team Efficiency
The Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle improved the performance of its rapid response teams (RRTs) by improving staff familiarity with them. The better staff understand how to work with an RRT, the better the outcome for the patient, the leadership found.
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Get Patients Moving More to Decrease Vent Time
An Arizona hospital has found that a concerted effort to get ventilated patients moving more can significantly decrease their time on a vent, resulting in better patient outcomes and cost savings.
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ADT Nurses Can Help Ease Bed Constraints, Patient Volumes
Managing patient throughput can be one of the biggest challenges for nursing units, with patients often remaining in the ED because there are not enough beds available on the unit, or there are not enough nurses to care for all of the patients. But some facilities are finding a solution with the use of Admission, Discharge, Transfer (ADT) nurses.