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Mastering BPCI-A for Success

Guideway Care

With BPCI-A, the entire healthcare team is in the loop about the patient’s care and financial obligations. This goes a long way to ensure effective communication and collaboration for quality care. You can successfully implement BPCI-A in your healthcare to manage care episodes effectively.

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How CMS’ TEAM Initiative Helps Prevent Surgical Readmissions With Better Wound Care

Relias

These tools allow wound care specialists to catch early signs of infection, deterioration, or noncompliance before a readmission becomes necessary. Standardize wound care protocols Create and implement evidence-based wound care guidelines that are consistent across inpatient units, discharge instructions, and post-acute care settings.

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Home Health CoPs Update: New Opportunities for OTs

Relias

Under the new CoPs, if therapy services establish home health eligibility, OT is included in the care plan, and no skilled nursing care is designated, the start of care visit can be done by an OT instead of having to wait for a nurse, PT, or SLP to be available. OTs Can Conduct Medicare Initial Assessment.

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Meet Nancy Colobong Smith, American Nephrology Nurses Association’s President-Elect 2023-24

Minority Nurse

I also am consulted regarding evidence-based practice and care planning. After being an assistant manager for several years, I realized that the parts of my role I enjoyed most were providing education, mentoring, clinical care, and improving systems.

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Understanding Functional Medicine

Minority Nurse

” In terms of the medical culture, Brooke observes, “ The traditional medical model focuses more on acute care and managing symptoms, which can lead to skepticism towards approaches that are perceived as less evidence-based or more time-consuming.”

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Why Care Coordination Is Important for Home Health and Hospice Agencies

Relias

Comprehensive education for home health staff is vital to boost performance under HHVBP, observed Relias Director of Post-Acute Care Solutions Trish Richardson, MSN, BSBA, RN, NE-BC, CMSRN. Hospices should also be concerned about care coordination. Assessing communication and collaboration. Increased scrutiny in hospices.

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Care Coordination: The Key to Improving Patient Outcomes

Relias

What is care coordination? Coordination of care is the process of organizing and integrating health care services for patients across care settings and providers. In emergency care settings, care coordination can involve immediate care, hospital admission, discharge planning, follow-up care, and post-acute care.