Nursing homes are under mounting pressure to improve quality of care. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last year introduced new quality measures that hold nursing homes accountable for ...

The term “value-based care” is tossed around like a political football among healthcare policy makers. Nowhere is the meaning of this so variable as in nursing homes. The Nursing Home Value-Based ...

Demographic pressure, policy reform and digital advances mark 2025 as a defining moment for the skilled nursing sector, and ...

When we think of champions of health, perhaps there is no bigger advocate for patients than the nurse. Rooted firmly on the front lines of patient health, the role of the nurse has always been one of ...

Last week, Sue Chapman Moss, Kunu Kaushal and Bill Gammie were featured on the latest episode of HHCN+ TALKS, Home Health ...

One proud graduate came from Oregon. Another from Lancaster, Pa. They were two of nine who gathered one day in the fall of 2012 to celebrate completing the first online master’s degree program offered ...

"The context of the organization is owned by the c-suite. You are responsible for the context of care, meaning the environment, the culture, the behavioral standards, the organizational values," says ...

Attend any healthcare conference and you’ll quickly discover that it’s become downright fashionable for healthcare leaders to talk about their unwavering commitment to “value-based care.” The ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Robert Burke of the University of Pennsylvania about his recent paper which evaluates outcomes for skilled nursing facilities value-based purchasing programs. Order ...

Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health has established its own Center for Value-Based Care and hired three leaders to head up its work. The nonprofit health system announced the center Feb. 29, noting its ...

US overdose deaths currently exceed 100,000 per year. New facilities, known as bridge clinics, are broadening access to high-quality care by offering outpatient substance use disorder (SUD) treatment ...

In this investigation, the authors evaluated the impact of a voluntary transition to risk-based contracts under Medicare Advantage on health care use. In this investigation, the authors evaluated the ...