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The CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule: What Healthcare Organizations Need to Know

Relias

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Emergency Preparedness Rule to provide a national framework for healthcare organizations to improve their readiness for emergencies. This regulation established consistent emergency preparedness requirements for Medicare and Medicaid providers and suppliers of all types.

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What You Need To Know About Value-Based Payment Models

Relias

But momentum will continue, since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in 2021 that it plans to transition fully to value-based reimbursement by 2030. By 2005, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began piloting value-based care programs that linked payment to quality measures.

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What Care Coordination Is and How To Implement It

Relias

Organizations adopt care coordination to improve health outcomes and reduce the financial cost of treatments by streamlining care delivery and reducing or eliminating redundancies in care. Care coordinators work in numerous settings including roles in hospitals and outpatient care facilities. What is care coordination?

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The National Foster Care Placement Crisis: Why Are Kids Sleeping in Offices? [VIDEO]

KVC

children are also staying in hospital ERs, hotels, and even out-of-state places, and some are experiencing one-night “emergency” placements in foster homes. Foster or Adopt – There’s a child or teen who needs someone just like YOU – and at KVC, we make sure the opportunity to foster is open to all people. Across the U.S.,

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A disappointing report from the Senate Finance Committee

Child Welfare Monitor

.” It does not define RTF’s, but the term clearly refers to facilities that provide behavioral health services in a residential context to children with funding from programs under SFC jurisdiction, mainly Medicaid and foster care funds under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act.

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Reducing Maternal Mortality: Will the ‘Birthing-Friendly’ Hospital Designation Help?

Relias

­The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule in August 2022 to improve maternal health outcomes and advance health equity — two of the Biden-Harris Administration’s key priorities. The new measures included the Birthing-Friendly hospital designation to help reduce maternal mortality and morbidity.

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PART THREE OF FOUR: Reputation laundering in child welfare: “Social Current”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

And CAPTA drives women away from seeking prenatal care and away from giving birth in hospitals, through provisions demanding that states turn them in to the family police if their newborns are “affected” by drugs. Repeal of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act – or at least strong backing for legislation proposed by Rep.