Discharge Planning
Is Your Care Transitions Strategy Broken?
Even with all the industry focus on improving discharge planning, the process of helping a patient safely transition from...
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5 Things You Need Now to Improve Discharge Planning
One of the most important duties nurses have is to prepare patients for discharge. “Teaching patients about their conditions, medications, self-care...
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How Modern Hospitals Improve Patient Outcomes
Hospitals are under constant pressure to improve patient outcomes for many reasons. Among them, healthcare consumerism is creating a market for...
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Four Practical Ways Hospitals Can Improve Patient Experience
These easy steps can speed recovery, improve patient safety, and reduce readmission A patient’s perception of the hospital...
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Three Ways Patients Want Hospitals to Improve The Patient Experience
Pick up any newspaper, turn on any TV or open any news web site and it is clear that...
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Top Patient Engagement Trends in 2020
It has been a decade since President Obama signed into law the Affordable Care Act – March 23, 2010...
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Hospital Discharge Planning can Improve the Patient Experience
Discharge planning – or more precisely, the lack of it – was a predominant conversation at the Chief Nursing Officer...
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Two Proven Ways to Help Reduce Readmissions
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services put hospitals on notice back in 2012 that excessive patient readmissions would not...
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Patient Care Experience Improvements: Delivering What’s Important to Patients
A Beryl Institute study of 2,000 consumers uncovered some insight into the importance patients put on their patient care experience. A...
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Reduce Hospital Readmissions Using Interactive Systems
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released data last fall that shows good news for hospitals working to reduce patient...
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Making Hospitals Safer: 3 Ways Interactive Solutions Are Helping
The most recent data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality estimate that hospital-acquired conditions have declined 17 percent in...
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