Author: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Report to the Congress, Medicare Payment Policy
Author: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309132746
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Among the issues confronting America is long-term care for frail, older persons and others with chronic conditions and functional limitations that limit their ability to care for themselves. Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care takes a comprehensive look at the quality of care and quality of life in long-term care, including nursing homes, home health agencies, residential care facilities, family members and a variety of others. This book describes the current state of long-term care, identifying problem areas and offering recommendations for federal and state policymakers. Who uses long-term care? How have the characteristics of this population changed over time? What paths do people follow in long term care? The committee provides the latest information on these and other key questions. This book explores strengths and limitations of available data and research literature especially for settings other than nursing homes, on methods to measure, oversee, and improve the quality of long-term care. The committee makes recommendations on setting and enforcing standards of care, strengthening the caregiving workforce, reimbursement issues, and expanding the knowledge base to guide organizational and individual caregivers in improving the quality of care.
Crossing the Quality Chasm
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309132967
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.
Medicare Payment Policies for Post-acute Care
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on FinancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Medicare Handbook
Author: Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309175704
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Hospitals and nursing homes are responding to changes in the health care system by modifying staffing levels and the mix of nursing personnel. But do these changes endanger the quality of patient care? Do nursing staff suffer increased rates of injury, illness, or stress because of changing workplace demands? These questions are addressed in Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes, a thorough and authoritative look at today's health care system that also takes a long-term view of staffing needs for nursing as the nation moves into the next century. The committee draws fundamental conclusions about the evolving role of nurses in hospitals and nursing homes and presents recommendations about staffing decisions, nursing training, measurement of quality, reimbursement, and other areas. The volume also discusses work-related injuries, violence toward and abuse of nursing staffs, and stress among nursing personnelâ€"and examines whether these problems are related to staffing levels. Included is a readable overview of the underlying trends in health care that have given rise to urgent questions about nurse staffing: population changes, budget pressures, and the introduction of new technologies. Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes provides a straightforward examination of complex and sensitive issues surround the role and value of nursing on our health care system.
105-1 Hearing: Medicare Payment Policies For Post-Acute Care, S.Hrg. 105-9, April 9, 1997
Author: Conditions of Participation for Hospitals
Author: United States. Social Security AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Report to the Congress, Medicare Payment Policy
Author: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Medicare Primer
Author: Patricia A. DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This report provides a general overview of the Medicare program including descriptions of the program's history, eligibility criteria, covered services, provider payment systems, and program administration and financing.