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At Inova Health System’s adult infusion center, patient hours had climbed significantly. Then severe understaffing hit — and leaders faced a hard question: could they hold that volume with fewer nurses at the bedside? The proposed fix, a new nurse-pull…
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- Monica Cfarku, MSN, RN, TCTCN, CCM, NE-BC, Senior Director of Oncology Nursing Services, Inova
- Tricila Ronquillo, BSN, RN, Nurse Manager, Inova
Medicaid members with behavioral health conditions pass through emergency departments, inpatient units and outpatient follow-up as though each were a separate system. For most plans it is, and the members who need coordination most are the least likely to get…
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- Kristi Carney, Director of Behavioral Health, CareSource, Indiana Market
- Nishi Rawat, MD, Chief Clinical Officer and GM Automated Transitions, Bamboo Health
Follow-up colonoscopy rates after a positive stool-based test range from 24-75%, according to NCQA. Same test, same result, very different odds that the whole screening continuum actually gets completed. That spread has been invisible in quality reporting. HEDIS scored health…
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- Jordan Karlitz, MD, Senior Medical Officer, Screening, Abbott
- Brenna Lin, Applied Research Scientist, Population Health, National Committee for Quality Assurance
Nearly every pediatric clinician surveyed this year expects zirconia crown use to rise, but far fewer are placing them today. A 2026 benchmark report drawn from 161 in-person responses from pediatric dentists, residents and dental team members at the American…
Washington, DC has opted out of the federal physician supervision requirement for certified registered nurse anesthetists , becoming the 28th US jurisdiction to do so. Mayor Muriel Bowser approved the opt-out under the Health Occupations Revision General Amendment Act of…
Ambient AI has made outpatient documentation easier. But no solution has addressed the far more complex documentation of an inpatient stay in a way that serves both clinicians and downstream revenue cycle teams. One multi-hospital health system found a different…
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- Faisal Chawla, MD, Medical Director for Clinical Documentation Integrity, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Physician Advisor for Utilization Management, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Ascension is selling its ownership stake in Mercy Care, an Arizona Medicaid insurer, to CVS Health-owned Aetna — the latest in a string of moves by the nonprofit hospital giant to exit non-core insurance businesses and redirect capital toward outpatient…
Fort Wayne (Ind.) Medical Oncology and Hematology is closing its Bluffton, Ind., clinic and consolidating services at a new Decatur, Ind., location to expand cancer care access in the region. According to a Sept. 21 news release, the Bluffton facility…
South Island Medical closed its Freeland, Wash., clinic Sept. 9 and shifted operations to North Island Medical in Oak Harbor, its sister practice roughly 29 miles away, both owned by Palo Alto, Calif.-based Beyond Health, The South Whidbey Record reported…
A new study has added to mounting data indicating that the U.S. cardiologist workforce is aging faster than it is being replaced. The study, led by Dr. Abraham Kyei Carboo, was published Aug. 19 in JACC: Advances. It examined structural…
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