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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 31—Anchorage nurses say a new staffing model recently launched at Providence hospital will put patients in danger. Last week, ...

Set to take effect in less than a year, more than 700 hospitals across the U.S. are gearing up to adhere to a new alternative payment system from CMS, called the Transforming Episode Accountability ...

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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 ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Nurses are the heart of health care. Often, the first ...

Anchorage nurses say a new staffing model recently launched at Providence hospital will put patients in danger. Last week, Providence Alaska Medical Center announced it had implemented what it calls a ...