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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. It can involve prenatal care, labor and delivery care, postpartum care, newborn care, family planning, and maternal and infant health services.

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Why Care Coordination Is Important for Home Health and Hospice Agencies

Relias

A well-designed care coordination process benefits patients, providers, and payer organizations. Improved care quality and patient safety, reduced readmissions and ER visits, and lower healthcare costs are just some of the positive outcomes of effective care coordination. Care coordination under HHVBP.

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Let’s huddle up

American Nurse

A comprehensive ambulatory cancer center’s journey to implementing tiered huddles Takeaways: Tiered huddles are brief conversations that occur throughout levels of an organization or across health systems to improve patient safety, communication, situational awareness, care coordination, resource utilization, patient outcomes, and service.

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Healthcare Technology and Nursing: What You Should Know

Diversity Nursing

One of the many benefits of telehealth is it can enhance access to healthcare for individuals living in remote or rural communities or those with limited mobility. It also significantly reduces travel time and patient expenses, improves care coordination, and allows Nurses to reach a larger patient population.

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6 Ways CNOs are Improving Teamwork for 2024

Health Leaders | Nursing

Her team has also enhanced communication around these benefits, many of which are longstanding, so nurses know the possibilities from the beginning. FitzPatrick and Sievert find the people in their purview—from nursing teams and leaders to the C-suite—expect more transparency and communication on the macro conditions affecting healthcare. “We

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Can an LPN/LVN Become a Certified Managed Care Nurse? The Answer May Surprise You

Registered Nursing

What Is a Managed Care Nurse? Managed care nurses , also known as case managers or care coordinators, are nurses who specialize in coordinating and managing the healthcare of patients within a managed care system. Read below to learn the steps involved so you can get started in this exciting career today.

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Emerging Roles and Expanded Responsibilities for Certified Nursing Assistants

Every Nurse

Technology has revolutionized the industry, offering new ways to deliver care and manage patient information. Electronic health records, for example, have streamlined the process of documenting patient care, making it easier for healthcare providers to access and share patient information. Here are just a few.