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Two senators have introduced a bill aimed at expanding the scope of hospital-at-home care in the U.S. The bill, introduced by Senators Rubio and Carper, would create a pilot program to test the effectiveness of providing hospital-level care in patients' homes. This move could lead to a significant shift in the healthcare industry, improving patient outcomes and reducing healthcare costs. Learn more about this important development here: https://lnkd.in/dafK4PqY

Collaborative Health Systems helps primary care physicians navigate the complexities of value-based care and advise on which models might be a good fit for their practice, tailoring recommendations to physicians’ specific needs. Read from Victoria Bailey in Xtelligent Healthcare on how physicians can overcome barriers and seamlessly transition to value with this type of support, so they can focus on delivering comprehensive, holistic patient care: #ValueBasedCare #PrimaryCare

In the world of healthcare, we're striving for #PatientPartnership. Here are the six principles of patient partnership: 🌟 Treating patients as equals: Your views are valued, and you have a say in decisions. 📚 Patients fully informed: The NHS provides info that's accessible and easy to understand. 🤝 Shared decision making and patient partnership: Make it routine practice. 🌍 Recognising inequalities: Identify and meet all patient groups and communities' unique needs. 🗣️ Seeking patient input: Patient views are not just welcomed but actively valued and acted upon. 🔗 Joining services around patients: Services work with you to make things as easy as possible. #PatientCare #HealthcareEquality https://lnkd.in/eSiPwkZd

Two senators have introduced a bill aimed at expanding the scope of hospital-at-home care in the U.S. The bill, introduced by Senators Rubio and Carper, would create a pilot program to test the effectiveness of providing hospital-level care in patients' homes. This move could lead to a significant shift in the healthcare industry, improving patient outcomes and reducing healthcare costs. Learn more about this important development here: https://lnkd.in/dffTm6Q5

A new long read, the first in a series of outputs with THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute), aims to promote a more holistic approach to understanding the challenges patients face in accessing GP services. This publication explores: ⭕ data on access and patient satisfaction ⭕ how the candidacy framework might help in understanding access to general practice ⭕ the trade-offs between different components of access ⭕ how a broader approach (using the candidacy framework) might drive improvement. It also includes a thorough catalogue developed to identify and categorise decades of attempts to improve access to general practice. Read now ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/e2GqT8Ee [Alt text: Line chart of percentage of patients reporting it is easy or fairly easy to reach their practice by phone and navigate the practice website, and those who report their overall experience of making an appointment as very good or fairly good showing that since 2018, patients have reported decreasing satisfaction with making an appointment and contacting their GP practice.]

Florida Blue and Sanitas Medical Center are teaming up to open a new primary care clinic in Jacksonville, focusing on a "value-based" approach to healthcare. This means they'll be rewarded for keeping patients healthy, instead of just the number of services provided. Key points: - Shifting from volume to value: Florida Blue's Dr. Elana Schrader says the healthcare system is moving towards paying for better outcomes, not just more procedures. - Comprehensive care: The clinic offers preventive care, chronic condition management, mental health services, and more, all under one roof. - Serving specific needs: The clinic targets individuals 50+ and Medicare enrollees, addressing the growing needs of this population. - Compassionate care: Patients are assigned a dedicated care team for consistent support. - Addressing mental health: The clinic offers readily available behavioral health services, recognizing the increased demand. Additional takeaways: - This marks the 53rd collaboration between Florida Blue and Sanitas across Florida, mostly focused on primary care. - The partnership aims to address the influx of new members due to the Affordable Care Act and provide culturally competent care. - This is their first venture into northeast Florida, with plans to serve 5 million #Medicare-eligible residents in the state. - The clinic emphasizes convenience with extended hours and virtual services. Learn more: https://hubs.ly/Q02kmTjD0

Discover how palliative care is seizing new opportunities within ACO Flex to enhance patient outcomes and quality of life! Read more about the evolving landscape in healthcare and the pivotal role of palliative care in this article from Palliative Care News: #HealthcareInnovation #PatientCare #PalliativeCare

On November 14th, I spoke at the Bipartisan Policy Center event focused on the CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCAH) program. When I was at CMS, we established this program to bring hospital-level care into the homes of patients in response to the capacity limitations of hospitals at a critical stage of the COVID-19 public health emergency. We know that providing care in the home can lead to better outcomes, and the AHCAH program has been critical for gathering additional data that will inform future standards of care delivery. However, the AHCAH program will end this year unless Congress approves a 5-year extension. I believe an extension of the current waive is important, and we should prospectively design an analysis plan to understand the long-term costs of AHCAH, the best ways to staff the program, and help us determine how AHCAH can evolve to fit within the broader landscape of care delivery with advances in remote technologies while ensuring safety and program integrity. Thank you to the BPC and my fellow speakers for coming together to talk about the importance of the AHCAH program. I have linked the article below for more detail on the event. https://lnkd.in/ezMEvd7p #AcuteHospAtHome #patientsafety. #programintegrity Rubrum Advising

Full study and results: https://lnkd.in/eTYUEVkM This study finds that comprehensive practice transformation efforts may significantly reduce expensive emergency department visits, supporting the CMS goals. A 6% national reduction in ED visits could save Medicare up to $1.38 billion annually. #PrimaryCare #SpecialtyCare #EmergencyDepartment #Medicare #ValueBasedCare #HealthcareInnovation

As any #economist will tell you, #incentives matter. The earning differential dissuades all #clinician types from choosing #primarycare careers. Despite the idea that #physician replacements would go into primary care, turns out they also go for the money, thus still leaving a gap in primary care. As nurse practitioners and physician assistants have no requirement to do residency or be board certified for, in many states, equal practice scope and equivalent jobs, they prefer the highest paid procedure-oriented jobs, in specialities & in cities. #Ruralhealth still suffers massive shortages. Hospitals, increasingly #privateequity owned, also prefer to hire cheaper, less trained doctor alternatives who can be moved from specialty to specialty with no training needs compared to the 3-7 years of added residency training that doctors do. Any employer (but especially abusive ones) will choose the least expensive, most easily replaced workforce. Then employers do not feel the need to fix burnout, rather feel comfortable burning through employees quickly, knowing they can be easily replaced. Replacing doctors actually worsened the perverse incentives for abusive employers in #healthcare. I worked within #government when this push to replace doctors was happening. I now look back and see how I contributed to destruction of my own profession, when I thought I was doing a good thing to increase access and to promote collaborative teams. In fact while I was envisioning win-win-wins, it was just a naive way to accelerate towards win-lose. If we had been able to replace primary care doctors with cheaper alternatives, as government had wanted, then the government-led cuts in payment might have been sustainable. Instead, we still have workforce shortages, long wait times, cost barriers, people getting sicker, more expensive care from avoidable illnesses. Meanwhile primary care practices are going under, doctors are retiring early, and many current medical students are planning non-clinical careers. I honestly do not know who will be caring for all of us as we age and cannot avoid getting needed care.