Quality Outcomes
10/10/2024
Educate your staff on Medicare payments and quality metrics to empower clinicians and build a collaborative team approach to case management.
10/03/2024
Incorporate active listening, non-verbal communication or cultural competence into your in-service training programs to improve HHCAHPS survey scores that can sometimes feel stuck in cement. Training that focuses on listening is a great tool to show your agency is serious about patient satisfaction.
08/29/2024
Motivate clinicians to learn the individual preferences, needs and nonverbal cues of patients with dementia to prevent unsafe or inappropriate situations and improve patient outcomes.
08/01/2024
In this interview, Leslie Pelton, vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), tells us more about the Age-Friendly System-Wide Spread Collaborative, an 18-month project where 30 U.S. health systems will try to spread the adoption of four evidence-based elements of high-quality care, known as the 4Ms.
07/25/2024
Focusing only on a number of visits can inadvertently set up the need to just perform “visits” to meet productivity goals. That can lead to clinicians providing visits that are not driving value for the patient outcomes and adding unnecessary costs to the episode.
07/25/2024
The Age-Friendly System-Wide Spread Collaborative is an 18-month project where 30 U.S. health systems will try to spread the adoption of four evidence-based elements of high-quality care, known as the “4Ms.”
06/20/2024
Home health agencies that prioritize intentional communication about the Home Health CAHPS Survey (HHCAHPS) could see higher response rates and 5 Star Rating scores, leading to a potential payment boost under Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP).
06/06/2024
The two most important factors contributing to the cost of caring for a patient with wounds are the number of visits made by clinical staff and the types of products that are used to treat the wounds.
06/06/2024
Agencies looking to increase their wound care patient census can do so through a variety of strategies including utilizing positive wound care outcomes and partnering with wound care vendors to increase their reach and value proposition to referral sources.
05/09/2024
Use a targeted internal review to spot OASIS assessment patterns so that you can identify problems impacting patient outcomes and flag issues that could lead to medical review challenges down the road.

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