by GV Team | Oct 25, 2018 | Drug Information, Patient Safety, Reducing Readmissions, Resources, Senior Health
When people get prescriptions for medications, they assume the products they’re taking are correct and should help them feel better. However, statistics indicate medication errors happen during 3.8 million hospital admissions and 3.3 million outpatient visits every...
by GV Team | Oct 19, 2018 | Patient Safety, Reducing Readmissions, Regulation Changes, Resources
Article by CMS.gov What’s the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program? The Hospital VBP Program rewards acute care hospitals with incentive payments for the quality of care they give to people with Medicare. This program adjusts payments to hospitals under...
by GV Team | Oct 12, 2018 | Patient Safety, Reducing Readmissions, Regulation Changes, Resources, Senior Health
Article by Maggie Flynn, Skilled Nursing News While rural skilled nursing facilities are facing the same reimbursement and regulatory challenges as their urban peers, they’re going to have to take some extra steps to survive the pressures. For one thing, rural SNFs...
by GV Team | Sep 26, 2018 | Patient Safety, Reducing Readmissions, Senior Health
Article by Kimberly Hume, MSN, RN, FAHCEP and Elizabeth Tomsik, PharmD, BCPS, PMC “Like patient education, effective approaches to medication reconciliation can get lost among the myriad of duties performed by pharmacists and clinicians. The unfortunate reality...
by GV Team | Sep 21, 2018 | Drug Information, Patient Safety, Reducing Readmissions, Resources, Senior Health
Article by Shashi N. Kapadia, MD, MS, The Joint Commission Journal “Dedicated antimicrobial stewardship software was present at each of the programs and was used for generating alerts for stewardship personnel to identify opportunities for intervention,...
by GV Team | Aug 13, 2018 | GrandView News, Patient Safety, Reducing Readmissions, Senior Health
Blog by Mark Wolfe, Customer Account Representative, GrandView Pharmacy In today’s environment, health care facilities are being asked to do more with less. Never has that simple statement been truer than in the long-term care setting. The digital age has helped...
