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A Hospital’s Role in Fighting Health Disparities
November 07, 2024Health disparities are a persistent issue, with certain communities facing significantly worse health outcomes than others. This gap is often present in access to quality post-acute services, particularly for those requiring inpatient rehabilitation.
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CMS Staffing Mandate Finalized: What Does It Mean for Patient and Hospital Outcomes?
September 11, 2024The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently finalized minimum staffing requirements for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and other nursing homes.1 These requirements are expected to have lasting impacts on the industry, including several post-acute programs, such as inpatient rehabilitation.Since CMS proposed the requirement in 2023, it has been…
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Partner Testimonial: Advantages of Partnership for Improved Hospital Outcomes
July 23, 2024When looking for a qualified and trusted rehabilitation partner, it is important to seek out flexibility to ensure all needs are met for your patients, staff and facility.
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Healthcare Headlines from the Hill: June Edition
June 18, 2024Stay ahead of the latest regulatory shifts and healthcare breaking news with Headlines from the Hill.
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5 Strategies to Help Your Hospital Overcome Ongoing Clinical Staffing Challenges in 2024
June 05, 2024Although employment and wages in the healthcare industry have seen improvements since the pandemic, there are still ongoing concerns about high quit rates, labor shortages and stagnant wages. For example, 1 in 5 registered nurses (RNs) still report they intend to leave the workforce by 2027 due to mounting stress and burnout in their position.
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Inpatient Rehabilitation Management: Key Insights to Help Hospitals Overcome the Obstacles
May 09, 2024Shifting regulations, rising denials and ongoing labor shortages present a multitude of challenges for hospitals when running an inpatient rehabilitation program. However, these are not the only obstacles.
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Top Challenges of Running Inpatient Rehabilitation: 3 Things to Know
April 15, 2024The rehabilitation services market is expected to reach $215 billion by 2030 – a 48% jump from its 2021 valuation.1However, the demand and complexity of inpatient rehabilitation is outpacing the ability to acquire and maintain specialized resources, expertise and capital to meet the growing need in local communities.Discover 3 of the top challenges hospitals face…
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Lifepoint Partner Testimonial: Enhancing outcomes for the growing medically complex population
March 19, 2024In recent years, post-acute admissions for neurological and pulmonary conditions have seen significant growth – with acuity rates of the general patient population rising 6% since 2019. These rising rates, couples of prolonged length of stay (LOS) numbers, has hospitals juggling a variety of new and complex illnesses.1,2
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The Rise of Value-Based Care: What It Is and Why Hospitals Should Prioritize Integration
March 06, 2024CMS aims to have all Medicare beneficiaries and most Medicaid beneficiaries enrolled in accountable care programs by 2030.1 This growing rate of adoption could lead to a value-based care (VBC) market valuation of $1 trillion in the coming years – creating substantial value for payers and providers, notes a McKinsey and Company report.2 Understanding value-based…
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Rising Readmission Penalties Expected in 2024: What Rehab Hospitals Can Do to Reduce its Impact
February 06, 2024The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reported 2023 to be the lowest number of readmission penalties in nearly 10 years by the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP). However, this trend is expected to reverse for fiscal year (FY) 2024.1If hospitals are not prepared, patient experience and outcomes, as well as hospital financial performance, could…
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New Healthcare Regulations, Consumerism Shifts and More: How Your Hospital Can Prepare in 2024
January 08, 2024In addition to identifying and addressing trends around financial health, staffing challenges, and technology opportunities, there remain a number of additional trends set to impact hospitals throughout 2024.Discover three additional trends that health leaders should consider when developing and managing their hospital’s strategic priorities this year. Shifting…
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Three Inpatient Rehabilitation Trends Every Health Executive Should Know
December 19, 20232024 is anticipated to be a year of significant change for post-acute and inpatient rehabilitation service lines. To help ensure hospitals stay ahead of these changes and position themselves for success throughout the year, health leaders are looking into the trends expected to have the greatest impact.Three of these top trends include:Heightened Focus on Financial…
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Case Study: Palomar Health Expands Care Access to the Greater San Diego Community
November 14, 2023The Challenge For members of the North San Diego community in the past, access to specialized acute rehabilitation care was not readily available. This forced patients to travel outside of their local community to receive treatment which was also not near other sites of care, such as the emergency department (ED) or trauma center. The Solution Palomar Health saw this…
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Inpatient Rehab vs. Skilled Nursing: C-Suite’s Guide to Optimal Outcomes
November 08, 2023All post-acute settings are not created equal.1 The growing rate of skilled nursing facility (SNF) closures has only reinforced this gap in care quality, leaving patients and hospitals straining to find care settings equipped and available to meet their unique needs.One setting that has weathered the storm of shifting regulatory changes, population health transitions, a…
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2024 C-suite Post-Acute Priorities: An HFMA and Lifepoint Survey
October 10, 2023Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)1 and Lifepoint Rehabilitation partnered on a survey of 100 hospital executives sourced from across the nation. The survey explored key challenges and opportunities around post-acute services, including top healthcare trends, improving the patient experience and service line expansion/development opportunities.
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VMG Health Highlights Importance of Strategic Partnership for Inpatient Rehab Management
October 03, 2023Approximately 45% of acute care discharges nationwide are admitted to a post-acute setting. As highlighted in a recent article by VMG Health, one post-acute setting that continues to see substantial growth across the care continuum: inpatient rehabilitation.1
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Hybrid Partnership Models: Strategies to Enhance Hospital Performance and Outcomes
September 27, 2023Partnership has become a leading strategy to efficiently improve quality while meeting the needs of the growing medically complex patient population. However, every hospital and community is different, and a one-size-fits-all partnership strategy is not effective.
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CMS Review Choice Demonstration: What it is and how your hospital-based rehab unit can prepare
September 12, 2023RCD is a program set forth by CMS to protect Medicare funds from mis-payment and fraud. The goal is to improve compliance with Medicare program requirements and help ensure the right payments are made at the right time for the hospital-based acute rehabilitation units (ARUs) or inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs).
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Making Care Primary: Top insights into the new CMS initiative
September 07, 2023CMS recently announced its newest Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) model: Making Care Primary (MCP).
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3 key strategies to improve your hospital’s financial performance
August 24, 2023Following a financially straining year, health leaders are looking for ways to achieve and maintain strong financial performance without utilizing excess resources.
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