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Nursing Students Create Clothes Drive for Discharged Hospital Patients

Scrubs

Four graduate nursing students, Emily Kilmer, Jillian Shirilla, Kayla Sallinger, and Jillene Saler, at Marquette College of Nursing recently started a clothes drive for discharged patients at five local hospitals. News and World Report list. All four students said they gravitated towards the college because of its mission to help others.

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Navigating Medicare Advantage: Strategies for Hospitals to Tackle Growing Challenges

EvidenceCare

billion on bonus payments in 2023 for four- or five-star health plans – a 30% increase from the prior year. Say what you’re looking for and what the risk of discharge is in every single progress note. For Star Ratings specifically, CMS spent $12.8 It’s going to get more difficult to achieve four or five stars in the future.

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Will New Medicaid Policies Put Hospital Margins at Risk?

EvidenceCare

Hospital Margins: A Positive Trend with Ongoing Challenges Hospital financial performance rebounded in 2023, with total margins rising to 6.4% My goal is to offer a practical framework for leaders navigating both opportunity and uncertainty. and operating margins to 5.2%.

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Universal Depression Screening Leads to Unnecessary Harm

Sensible Medicine

In June 2023 , the same was recommended to adults. Fortunately, she was discharged the next morning. In October 2022 , the USPSTF recommended childhood anxiety screening starting at eight years old. For both recommendations, the USPSTF found "no studies that directly evaluated the benefits of screening for anxiety disorders."

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Medical Assistants Recognition Week 2023

Milwaukee Career College

National Medical Assistants Day falls on October 18, 2023, however, many observe the entire third week of October as Medical Assistants Appreciation Week! The post Medical Assistants Recognition Week 2023 appeared first on Milwaukee Career College. What is Medical Assistants Day?

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Burn Care for Underserved Communities: A Certified Burn Nurse’s Perspective

Minority Nurse

Introduced in the fall of 2023, CBRN certification spans the entire burn care continuum including prehospital care and initial management, acute and critical care, post-acute rehabilitation, outpatient and community care, and aftercare and reintegration, as well as injury prevention, education, and psychosocial patient and family support.

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Health Systems Must Move “Beyond the Walls” to Support Consumers’ Well-Being

Health Populi

This report is based on detailed interviews with experts in 30 US health system conducted between November 2022 and March 2023. Health consumers, across generations, are interested in unified digital healthcare platforms, new research from PYMNTS and Lynx found in their May 2023 report, The Digital Platform Promise.

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