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👩⚕️In this blog, Head of Wren Healthcare, Antony Reynolds, reflects on 2024 trends and shares projections for 2025, highlighting key areas like rural nurse coverage, at-home IP administration, and the future of incorporating home health earlier in trial protocols. Read on to learn more 👇 #WrenHealthcare #HomeHealth #NursingSolutions

Today's Chicago Tribune excerpt: “Patient safety is so important and there are many other measurements of why you should go from one hospital to another,” said Cheryl Larson, president and CEO of the Midwest Business Group on Health, which helps facilitate the Leapfrog hospital survey in Illinois. “This is one of them, and it’s an important one.” Read the article: https://lnkd.in/g4xet_JN Crain's Chicago Business excerpt: MBGH, which represents employer purchasers of health care, serves as The Leapfrog Group’s Illinois regional leader and encourages hospitals to participate in Leapfrog’s online patient safety survey... “Preventable medical errors happen across the country far too often, including in our own community,” Cheryl Larson, MBGH president and CEO, said in the release. “We are very proud of our Illinois Grade A hospitals and moving up in our ranking to 23rd in the nation. In addition, this round of grades shows improvements in patient safety across the country, which is promising. The employers in our coalition believe we all benefit from hospital transparency, and we can work together to continue to reduce preventable harm and advance patient safety.” Read the article: https://lnkd.in/gt9R6JSE #employers #healthbenefits #patientsafety #hr #healthcare

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It’s never too early to plan ahead! 🌼 April 16 is National Health Care Decision Day! Join Gina Lopez, Intensive Care Unit Nurse at Riverside Doctors’ Hospital Williamsburg as she dives into the essentials of advance care planning and explains why it’s crucial to make your healthcare decisions known ahead of time. 🏥 ✨ Make your choices known now—don’t leave your health decisions to chance. Plan today, rest easy tomorrow! #HealthcareDecisionMonth #AdvanceCarePlanning #NurseTalk

Crucial conversations save lives. Are we improving? In partnership with AACN and Rush University, Crucial Learning is launching a study to explore how communication in health care affects patient safety, caregiver collaboration and system innovation. This research aims to identify the behaviors needed to foster better communication and adoption of evidence-based practices. Your insights are valuable—take this 10-minute anonymous survey and contribute to improving health care outcomes nationwide. Take the survey here: https://cvent.me/rAogBQ #NurseLeaders #NursingInnovation #PatientSafety AACN (American Association of Critical-Care Nurses)

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This is a great topic...Restorative Healthcare Some goals for your patient or loved one may include. Increasing the patient's independence. Preserving existing function. Promoting safety. Improving function/minimizing deterioration.

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https://lnkd.in/eSPpqH7d I found this to be an interesting article. Community para medicine can be an effective tool to get healthcare to vulnerable populations. Yes there are barriers, such as scope of practice, funding, and staffing. There are benefits though, such as lowering the potential of Emergency Room visits for sometimes routine procedures. Maybe it is time to look at a different dynamic. Instead of just a two paramedic unit, staff an ambulance with two paramedics and a Physician Assistant. Depending on the area being implemented, schedule visits with patients to have routine checks. This can be beneficial to patients that have difficulty making it to doctors appointments due to transportation issues, or for those that do not have family support to get them to the doctor. This can help ease the strain on calls to 911, overflowing Emergency Rooms, especially in bigger cities. Technology can allow use of electronic medical records, to update patients charts. Now the biggest problem is going to be multiple EMR's used by different organizations. What if community para medicine programs had access and training to the EMR's used by the organizations in their communities. Yes, it is a lot of training but it allows for better continuity of care. As medicine advances, changes need to be adapted to make healthcare available to all. If this type of program can be successful, think of the impact it can make on the bigger part of the picture. If we can reduce the number of Emergency Room visits, and potentially hospital admissions, what relief would come for those that work in hospitals. This may be looked at as transferring the burden of burn out to a different sector, but with proper planning and implementation could it be feasible? #CommunityMedicine #Paramedicine #CommunityHealth #PublicHealth

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