Social Work Blog

MAY 11, 2023

MI-SBIRT are evidence-based models for supporting clients in making informed decisions about their health.

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Brightpoint

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

We help parents access services like SNAP, Medicaid, and provide early childhood screenings to ensure infants and young children are meeting developmental milestones, because we know that early intervention is key to helping children thrive going forward. We don’t have an end in sight to the current migrant crisis.

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Brightpoint

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

We help parents access services like SNAP, Medicaid, and provide early childhood screenings to ensure infants and young children are meeting developmental milestones, because we know that early intervention is key to helping children thrive going forward. We don’t have an end in sight to the current migrant crisis.

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Medicaid Interventional Disability Social Worker 52

Relias

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

of citizens identifying as American Indian or Alaska Native relied on Medicaid or other public health insurance, and 14.9% on Medicaid or public health insurance and only 6.3% Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health (OMH) reported that 42.1% had no coverage at all. with 34.3%

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Relias

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Every year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) releases the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER). You can look at the PEPPER website’s user guide to see all target areas and a list of potential interventions for each. We all love free tools that help our organizations perform better.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

” The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) defines care coordination more holistically as “the process of ensuring that the patient’s health needs and preferences for health information and services are met across the continuum of care.”

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Telehealth Healthcare Communication Hospitals 52

Relias

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This can help improve access to equitable and culturally informed maternity care in under-resourced areas, lower costs, reduce unnecessary medical interventions that contribute to risks of maternal mortality and morbidity,” and more, according to the study’s researchers. Nearly 40% of U.S. counties without OB care.

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Relias

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Several factors drove these concerns, such as licensing, Medicare/Medicaid?reimbursement, Medicaid beneficiaries use telehealth services. SoonerCare Medicaid program. target for interventions.?Thus, amount of telehealth adoption prior to the COVID-19 pandemic,?some some providers?were?weary marginalized?communities

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Healthcare Telehealth Human Services Medicaid 52

Relias

JANUARY 30, 2024

Healthcare organizations receive scores from the HCAHPS survey , which according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is “the first national, standardized, publicly reported survey of patients’ perspectives of hospital care.”

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Healthcare Medicare Hospitals Clinic 52

Relias

APRIL 18, 2022

For home health agencies, wounds are one of 12 clinical groupings the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) identifies under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model. Clinicians educated in a Relias wound care program use evidence-based practices in preventive measures, interventions, and frequency of dressing changes.

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Relias

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, healthcare providers must consider cases under their care that require medical interventions. Elective, non-medically-indicated abortions continue to spur disagreement and debate. These cases could cause difficulties for both patients and providers as they navigate new legal realities brought by the Dobbs decision.

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Healthcare Patient Safety Medicaid Interventional 84

Relias

JULY 14, 2022

They should ensure that appropriate interventions are in place — whether they include community behavioral health resources, social workers, or other types of case management — to reduce the gap between acute care and when the patient goes home. Healthcare organizations must improve communication and coordination at the system level.

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Mental Health Patient Safety Healthcare Domestic Violence 52

Relias

JULY 14, 2023

More recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its Maternity Care Action Plan , which also focuses on improving maternal health outcomes and advancing health equity. Stated goals include reducing premature deliveries, infections, and severe pregnancy complications.

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Clinic Mental Health Domestic Violence Healthcare 52

Relias

JULY 20, 2023

­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. Maternal mortality remains a critical problem in the U.S., which has more than triple the rate of most other high-income countries.

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Hospitals Medicaid Mental Health Medicare 40

Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Undermining public trust in vaccines and other critical health interventions could worsen health disparities, particularly in marginalized communities. Leadership that prioritizes ideology over evidence-based policy will weaken funding and support for these vital programs.

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