The latest evolution of a federal push to improve care coordination and reduce costs across settings may spell lost revenue for skilled nursing providers who are unprepared, two experts warned this ...

On August 1, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule updating the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) for acute care hospitals and the Medicare ...

A shift in nurse staffing practices that started at CHC ContinueCARE Hospitals in response to COVID-19 is proving to be not just a temporary adaptation to the pandemic but an evolution that optimizes ...

This article presents a descriptive review of a team-based care transformation model in a large primary care network, including core staffing, process improvement, and extended care teams. Allegheny ...

US-based Centers Health Care has launched an educational hub, named 'Are You TEAM Ready', to support the upcoming mandatory ...

Creating a successful dyad model requires staying 'in sync,' finding balance, and great listening, says the CNO-CMO partnership. If nurse leaders in the LifePoint Health system need guidance, they don ...

Back and nexk procedures could be wrapped into the mandatory TEAM bundled payment model if CMS expands it. (Photo: Martin Barraud/Getty Images) Medical conditions and surgical episodes requiring ...

Replacing registered nurses with non-RN staff is dangerous to patients, according to a new study from the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania School of ...

Home healthcare nurse checks a patient's vital signs. She is recovering at home from a recent surgery. Medicare’s new hospital payment experiment, which it calls TEAM (Transforming Episode ...

Virtual nursing model yields zero CAUTI levels, high patient engagement scores, and extra sets of hands for shift nurses. MercyOne Des Moines' virtual nursing program was installed to offset nurse ...