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Healthcare Quality Week 2019 – We Celebrate You!
Healthcare Quality Week (HQW), brought to you by National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ), is the week dedicated to celebrating the contributions professionals have made to improve healthcare quality. It also gives us an opportunity to bring greater...
September is Pain Awareness Month
Prescription opioids can be an effective form of pain management, but they are not always the only option. It is important to understand the potential benefits and risks before you begin taking medications. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is...
National Nursing Home Quality Improvement Campaign Changes
Passing along pertinent information from the The National Nursing Home Quality Improvement Campaign team. In September 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and its contractors continued the work of the Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing...
National Care Transitions Awareness Day and National Healthcare Decisions Day Recognized
Today the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hosted the first annual National Care Transitions Awareness Day to highlight how beneficiaries, families and caregivers and every member of the healthcare team (e.g., community partners, healthcare system...
#MyHospice: A Program that Works. A Benefit that Matters
Hospice is not a place, but is high-quality care that enables patients and families to focus on living as fully as possible despite a life-limiting illness. Palliative care brings this holistic model of care to people earlier in the course of a serious illness....
Survey Finds Likelihood of a Healthcare-Associated Infection Declines
The New England Journal of Medicine recently published the results of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Healthcare-Associated Infections Prevalence Survey 2015 (2015 HAI Prevalence Survey). The multi-state point prevalence survey set to determine...