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Project ECHO Reduces Readmissions, Shortens SNF Length of Stay
The Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes connects multidisciplinary skilled nursing facility teams with a multidisciplinary hospital team via videoconferencing. The program effectively reduces patient readmissions and skilled nursing facility length of stay. -
Case Study Shows Positive Results of Intensive Care Coordination
For one client, care coordination assistance through a Transition to Success framework helped her go from being homeless to housed within 86 days. -
From Homelessness to Self-Sufficiency, Case Management-Style Program Works
Case managers increasingly recognize the importance of addressing social determinants of health among patients across the care continuum, but evidence-based interventions are scarce. One new program seeks to change this with tactics to address one of the most prevalent social determinants of health: Poverty. A novel care transition and community case management program provides an evidence-based standard of care to treat poverty as an environmentally based and treatable condition.
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HHS Highlights No Surprises Act Benefits as Implementation Date Looms, Concerns Linger
Biden administration touts consumer protections, but lawmakers and advocacy groups remain concerned about interim final rule language.
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FDA: Eye Injuries Increasing Because of Alcohol Hand Rubs
Although a key infection control intervention, the ubiquitous presence of alcohol-based hand hygiene dispensers has led to an increase in people reporting severe eye irritations and injuries.
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CDC Urges Pregnant Women to Get Vaccinated
Despite the risk of severe disease and death, about two-thirds of pregnant women are not receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Temperature and Symptom Check Rarely Prevents Presenteeism
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a common ritual at hospital entry for healthcare workers is undergoing a temperature and/or symptoms check upon arriving for their shift. The problem is it rarely works.
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Genetic Research Suggests a ‘Superspreader’ in Provincetown
Was the large COVID-19 outbreak in Provincetown, MA, in July 2021 a superspreader event? The question remains inconclusive, but genetic evidence in new preprint research strongly signals a superspreader type event.
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CMS Warned of Mandate’s Threat to Long-Term Care, Rural Sites
Even healthcare workers who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 voluntarily warn of the unintended consequences of a federal vaccine mandate, particularly to long-term care and rural facilities already hit hard by the pandemic.
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CMS Issues Mandatory Vaccine Rule for Healthcare Workers
While emphasizing the national threat of the pandemic and the safety and efficacy of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services came down to one bedrock reason healthcare workers now face mandated immunization: their ethical duty to protect patients.