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April 2022: CMS updates National Quality Strategy

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

April 2022, however, also brings us a renewed approach and initiatives from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding its National Quality Strategy. Incentivize Innovation & Technology : Accelerate innovation in care delivery and incorporate technology enhancements (e.g. What is the CMS National Quality Strategy?

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From Sea to Shining Sea: State Palliative Care Laws Yield Mixed Results

Hospice News

The Oregon advisory group began producing a website to inform health care providers about palliative care, with a particular focus on long term care organizations. Work also began to slow when COVID struck in 2020, and the council’s plans for quarterly meetings fell to twice a year. Bureaucracy is byzantine.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.”

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