Relias

JUNE 13, 2024

Workplace violence is a widespread problem in the healthcare industry, affecting the safety and well-being of nurses. A new survey conducted by Nurse.com for the 2024 Nurse Salary and Job Satisfaction Report revealed a concerning trend in workplace violence in post-acute care settings.

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Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

Patient Safety Awareness Week, sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement , is the perfect time to review the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals. The national patient safety goals listed by the Joint Commission include some of the biggest preventable risks to patient safety across healthcare systems.

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Relias

APRIL 13, 2023

Understanding how to communicate effectively with people with dementia is vital for healthcare professionals in various settings, including home care, assisted living facilities, hospitals, and hospices. A patient’s ability to communicate affects care outcomes in multiple ways.

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Relias

APRIL 13, 2023

Understanding how to communicate effectively with people with dementia is vital for healthcare professionals in various settings, including home care, assisted living facilities, hospitals, and hospices. A patient’s ability to communicate affects care outcomes in multiple ways.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

Whether a family needs support in their own home or during out-of-home care, KVC is driven to seek diverse perspectives, work inclusively, bridge gaps, and add capacity to meet needs.”. KVC’s services include in-home family support, foster care, adoption, behavioral healthcare, and children’s psychiatric hospitals.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Dementia care is one of the most challenging types of patient care in every setting — from in-home care to assisted living, skilled nursing facilities, and hospitals. Having a care team with the competence to handle the complex challenges of people living with dementia is vital to providing respectful and optimal care.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Under VBP, your organization is rewarded or penalized based on patient outcomes, so ensuring the competency of your staff to provide high-quality, evidence-based care is vital. Healthcare organizations are facing a competency crisis. million healthcare and social assistance employees quit their jobs between April and August 2022.

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Relias

JULY 12, 2022

The speed of change in healthcare requires post-acute care organizations to take a different approach to job preparedness. Leaders in assisted living, skilled nursing, home health, rehab therapy, wound care, and hospice know you can’t hire all the skills your organization will need tomorrow and in the future.

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Community Care

JUNE 21, 2023

By Mithran Samuel and Dan Parton Adults’ services teams have cut care and assessment waiting lists by 60,000 since last summer and are arranging more home care, but continue to struggle with mounting need. Councils also commissioned 30% more home care hours from January to March 2023 (54.5

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Community Care

OCTOBER 21, 2022

At the same time, providers’ recruitment and retention difficulties were exemplified by the fact there was a drop of 50,000 in the number of filled roles in the sector from 2020-21 to 2021-22, despite rising demand for care. ‘Step change’ needed including improved pay. Photo: Kate Terroni/CQC.

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Relias

MAY 22, 2023

Understanding and managing situations in dementia care is essential for healthcare professionals in every care setting. Caring for people with the disease holds many possibilities for improving their experiences. “You may not want to do craft activities on the same table. We want more clearly defined [areas],” said Snow.

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Relias

OCTOBER 28, 2022

A well-designed care coordination process benefits patients, providers, and payer organizations. Improved care quality and patient safety, reduced readmissions and ER visits, and lower healthcare costs are just some of the positive outcomes of effective care coordination.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Large cohorts cover those agencies required to participate in the Home Health Care Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HHCAHPS) survey, whereas small cohorts are exempt. Agencies will be grouped into large or small cohorts based on the volume of patients served.

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Social Care

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Social care nursing is not really a key area of healthcare in Nigeria. My experience was more in acute, secondary care, and primary care. I started an initiative towards home care nursing in my country, but the opportunity for a better experience outside my country arose and I had to pursue it.

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KVC

MARCH 3, 2021

These agencies investigate reports of abuse and neglect, and work closely with the court system to decide whether or not to remove a child from their home. While social workers do provide their professional perspective, ultimately a judge decides whether the child needs out-of-home care.

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Relias

AUGUST 9, 2023

These quick refreshers benefit your employees, those you care for, and your bottom line. Your front-line staff is constantly on the go — whether from room to room within a facility or even from home to home, caring for individuals with a wide variety of needs. They’re not always right in front of a computer.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 17, 2022

However, even in homes caring for seriously ill people, it is highly likely that there may be only one qualified member of staff on shift, and other staff only have basic training in manual handling, fire safety and so forth. It’s people like Ann King who suffer, 14 October ).

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Relias

JANUARY 16, 2023

Home-based care is growing. A McKinsey & Company survey shows that up to $265 billion worth of care services could shift from traditional healthcare facilities to the home by 2025. million healthcare and social assistance employees quit their jobs between June 2022 and October 2022. Focus on retention.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

On August 24, 2024, the Washington Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) proudly announced in a press statement that it had reduced the number of children in out-of-home care by nearly half since 2018. Specifically, the number of children in foster care had fallen from 9,171 in 2018 to 4,971 as of August 14, 2024.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 27, 2025

You dont have to be a doctor to recognise that Rosy urgently needs 24/7 specialist home care. In the two-bedroom house Rosy shared with her teenage daughter and cat she was living out of her front room: a hospital-style bed and commode squashed in next to the television.

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