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...