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Care Coordination: The Key to Improving Patient Outcomes

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It involves communicating and collaborating with patients, their families, and their health care teams to ensure that the patient’s needs and preferences are met and that the best possible outcomes are achieved. Improved patient satisfaction : Improve patient satisfaction by enhancing patient engagement, empowerment, and education.

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How to Keep Patients Satisfied — and Raise Your Patient Satisfaction Scores

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As they consider new ideas to raise patient satisfaction, healthcare leaders must have an understanding of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scoring system that evaluates these efforts. The data is then tabulated to create the HCAHPS score. The financial impact of HCAHPS scores can be significant.

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COVID-19 Three Years Later: A Changing Landscape

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Article by Connect to End COVID-19 Communications Lead, Kim M. Simpson and Connect to End COVID-19 Communications Consultant, Susan Bodiker. Connect to End COVID-19 also engages with approximately 40 social work Ambassadors and Social Work Sister Organizations that assist in promoting COVID-19 vaccine confidence.

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Home Health Referrals: Grow Your Network

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For Medicare claims, you already track care quality and report it to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Pay attention to your record on patients having urgent, unplanned emergency room visits or hospital readmissions within the first 60 days of care by your agency. The obvious goal here is avoiding patient harm.

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Maximizing Healthcare Reimbursement Through Higher Patient Satisfaction Scores

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The relationship between patient satisfaction scores, reimbursement, and health outcomes The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scoring helps hospitals and governing bodies evaluate patient satisfaction through quantitative measurements.

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What Care Coordination Is and How To Implement It

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In these scenarios, a care coordinator can: Communicate between multiple providers within the continuum of care, especially with a primary care physician. Provide patient education, improve engagement, and ensure appropriate hand-offs during transitions of care.