Articles Tagged With: care
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Underrepresented Groups in Alzheimer’s Trials Remain Persistent Ethical Concern
Despite ongoing efforts to address disparities in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia care, much work remains. The authors of a recent report identified some of the barriers diverse populations are facing in accessing and receiving dementia care. -
ACO teams with post-acute providers for improved care coordination
As part of its efforts to provide better coordinated care to Medicare beneficiaries at a lower cost, the Michigan Pioneer Accountable Care Organization at Detroit Medical Center has partnered with post-acute providers and works with them face to face to coordinate care and ensure that patients get what they need in a timely manner.
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How to evaluate a new service: Will it work?
As hospice agencies prepare for success within a pay-for-performance environment, ideas for new services or redesigned existing services are popping up everywhere. -
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NC nurses examining policy on assisting in executions
Physician groups' opposition to doctors participating in death penalty executions has put a moratorium on prisoner executions in North Carolina for nearly a year. -
Palliative care program is passion for smaller hospice
When leaders at Coastal Hospice in Salisbury, MD, decided to move toward a palliative care philosophy, one of their first actions was to visit a Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) site at the Palliative Care Center of the Bluegrass in Lexington, KY. -
Large hospice converted to palliative care philosophy
Heartland Home Health Care and Hospice, based in Toledo, OH, began to look seriously at palliative care in 1999, starting with research into how the 110-office organization could improve chronic disease management. -
Health systems form 'Safest Hospital Alliance'
Three health care systems Wellmont Health System, based in Kingsport, TN; Novant Health, based in Winston-Salem, NC; and Adventist Health System, based in Winter Park, FL have come together to seek a solution to improving patient safety. -
Study casts new doubt on effectiveness of P4P
Does a pay-for-performance (P4P) approach to quality improvement really work? A new study in the June 6 issue of JAMA raises some serious questions as to whether it provides a superior incentive for hospitals to improve their performance. -
CMS unveils proposed list of 'no-payment' conditions
As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began unveiling the details of is value-based purchasing plan (see the cover story in the July 2007 issue of HBQI), knowledgeable observers were waiting for the "other shoe" to drop. Well, now it has.