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On-Demand Webinar: Creating Capacity with AI: How Sarasota Memorial Streamlined Discharges

May 5, 2025

On-Demand Webinar: Creating Capacity with AI: How Sarasota Memorial Streamlined Discharges

With inpatient patient volumes rising, Sarasota Memorial Health Care System faced a critical challenge: how to sccale without expanding its physical footprint or burning out staff. The solution? A systemwide shift to AIU-enabled discharge prioritization.

By leveraging predictive analytics to proactively address inpatient bottlenecks, Sarasota Memorial freed up capacity, reduced delays and standardized flow – all without adding beds.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:

  • Proactively identify and prioritize discharges using predictive AI,
  • Drive measurable improvements in throughput and care team collaboration, and
  • Create a repeatable, data-driven discharge process that scales with demand.

Cost: Free

When: This is an on-demand webinar, you can view at your convenience

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On-Demand Webinar: How OSU Wexner is Building a Stronger, Safer Workforce

May 5, 2025

On-Demand Webinar: How OSU Wexner is Building a Stronger, Safer Workforce

Healthcare is under pressure: staffing shortages and rising costs combined with everyday challenges of care delivery are pushing some hospitals into chronic instability.

Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center – ranked a “Best Hospital” for 30-plus years – is proving it’s possible to rise above these challenges. This webinar shares how the organization is closing performance gaps, empowering nursing leaders and creating measurable improvement in safety and outcomes.

Key Takeaways:

  • How to boost workforce engagement and retention through targeted training and leadership development,
  • Strategies for managing change and improving hospital operations, and
  • A practical 2025 roadmap to drive meaningful clinical and financial impact.

Cost: Free

When: This webinar is on-demand, you can view it at a time that is convenient for your schedule.

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Webinar: Ensuring Reviews Reflect Reality: How to Build an Award-Winning Reputation and Patient Experience, May 13

May 5, 2025

Webinar: Ensuring Reviews Reflect Reality: How to Build an Award-Winning Reputation and Patient Experience, May 13

After acquiring a neighboring health system, New Jersey-based Virtua Health implemented a strategic campaign to ensure the online reputation of its hospital in Willingboro (NJ) reflected its high quality of care. But by operationalizing patient feedback and adopting a more collaborative, data-driven approach, the hospital transformed its reputation – both online and in the community.

Join this webinar to uncover Virtua Health’s playbook for success and leave with proven strategies to elevate your organization’s reputation and patient experience.

Key Takeaways:

  • How Virtua Health aligned marketing and patient experience to improve satisfaction,
  • The role of online review in shaping hospital reputation and culture, and
  • Strategies to break down data silos and operationalize patient feedback.

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, May 13, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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Clinical Preparedness Workshops

May 2, 2025

Clinical Preparedness Workshops             

The Clinical Emergency Preparedness Workshops are designed to equip front-line clinicians with the knowledge, skills, and strategies necessary to effectively respond to large-scale emergencies and disasters. Developed in collaboration with health care coalition members, these workshops will focus on key areas essential to patient care continuity during crises.

Topics include:

  • Managing orthopedic injuries,
  • Utilizing laboratory and imaging services,
  • Addressing the needs of long-term care facilities,
  • Ensuring patient care during cyber events and extended outages,
  • Treating complex medical patients,
  • Responding to infectious disease outbreaks, and
  • Caring for pediatric patients in emergency scenarios.

Each session is tailored for clinicians across all patient care roles, ensuring a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to emergency preparedness and response.

Participants will have opportunities for hands-on skills learning, allowing them to practice critical techniques and decision-making in realistic emergency scenarios. These interactive sessions will enhance confidence and competence in responding to diverse clinical challenges during disasters.

Clinical Preparedness Workshop Dates:

  • May 15, 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Preparedness for Imaging and Laboratory Services
    • Focuses on optimizing diagnostics in resource-limited environments, ensuring efficient blood supply management and transfusion protocols, and improving the use of imaging technologies such as X-ray, CT, and ultrasound for trauma and mass casualty triage.
  • May 20, 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Long-term Care in Disasters
    • Designed to enhance collaboration between long-term care clinicians, hospital providers and EMS in managing long-term care patients during disasters.
  • May 29, 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Orthopedic Injuries in Disasters
    • Designed to prepare front-line clinicians to assess, stabilize and manage musculoskeletal injuries during large-scale emergencies. The session will provide clinicians with the knowledge and hands-on experience needed to deliver effective orthopedic care in large-scale and resource limited environments.
  • June 3, 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Pediatric Clinical Preparedness
    • Designed to equip frontline hospital and EMS clinicians with the knowledge, skills and confidence to effectively manage pediatric patients during disasters.
    • Participants will engage in real-world case scenarios and interactive sessions to enhance their ability to provide high-quality pediatric care in mass casualty incidents, natural disasters and other emergency situations.

Cost: Free

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Webinar: How Lee Health Solved Cancer Center Staffing Imbalances, May 13

May 1, 2025

Webinar: How Lee Health Solved Cancer Center Staffing Imbalances, May 13

Cancer centers nationwide are struggling with staffing shortages and workload imbalances that threaten both nurse retention and patient care. At Lee Health, leaders recognized that manual patient assignment methods were falling short and recently adopted a smarter approach that ensures fairer assignments and eases administrative strain.

As a result, workload imbalances dropped by 10%, staff productivity improved 11% and 90% of nurses report they can now effectively manage their patient loads.

Join this session to learn how Lee Health reworked patient assignments to improve efficiency and nurse satisfaction.

Key Learning Points:

  • Implement data-driven patient assignments to improve workload balance,
  • Reduce administrative burden in infusion centers with streamlined processes, and
  • Novel strategies to boost staff productivity while maintaining high-quality care.

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, May 13, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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CMS Proposes Revision to FY 2026 Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System – Comment by June 10

May 1, 2025

CMS Proposes Revision to FY 2026 Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System – Comment by June 10

This proposed rule would revise the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) for

  • operating and capital-related costs of acute care hospitals;
  • make changes relating to Medicare graduate medical education (GME) for teaching hospitals;
  • update the payment policies and the annual payment rates for the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for inpatient hospital services provided by long-term care hospitals (LTCHs);
  • update and make changes to requirements for certain quality programs; and
  • make other policy-related changes.

To be assured consideration, comments must be received no later than 5 p.m. EDT on June 10, 2025.

In commenting, please refer to file code CMS-1833-P. Because of staff and resource limitations, comments cannot be accepted by facsimile transmission.

Comments, including mass comment submissions, must be submitted in one of the following ways:

  • Electronically – You may submit electronic comments on this regulation to: https://www.regulations.gov.
  • Regular Mail – You may mail written comments to the following address ONLY: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services, Attention: CMS-1833-P, PO Box 8013, Baltimore, MD 21244-8013.
  • Be sure to allow sufficient time for mailed comments to be received before the close of the comment period.
  • Express or Overnight Mail – You may send written comments vi express or overnight mail to the following address ONLY: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services, Attention: CMS-1833-P, Mail Stop C4-26-05, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21244-1850

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Rural Health Research: Federal and State Reimbursement for Youth Behavioral Health Services

May 1, 2025

Rural Health Research: Federal and State Reimbursement for Youth Behavioral Health Services

The prevalence of behavioral health conditions, including depression, suicidal ideation, and substance use continue to increase among young people in the United States (U.S.). Medicaid is an important source of health coverage for youth in the rural U.S., covering 47% of youth. Because Medicaid is jointly funded by states and the federal government and is administered by each state within federal guidelines, reimbursement policies for behavioral health care vary across states.

This brief provides a structured review of the state-level policies and federal and state funding mechanisms that may affect the supply of behavioral health services for children and youth through 24 years of age.

Among the findings:

  • Medicaid reimbursement and coverage policies for behavioral health professionals vary across and within states.
  • A review of individual state Medicaid manuals indicates that social workers and psychologists are eligible for Medicaid manuals indicates that social workers and psychologists are eligible for Medicaid reimbursement for behavioral health services in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Marriage and family therapists (MFTs) are eligible for reimbursement by all but two state Medicaid programs.
  • All 50 states and the District of Columbia allow reimbursement of social workers and psychologists for behavioral health services provided through school-based Medicaid programs, while approximately one-third of states omit MFTs from the list of providers eligible for reimbursement within school-based Medicaid programs.

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Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week is May 5 – 11

May 1, 2025

Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week is May 5 – 11

Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week is May 5 – 11, help spread the word about the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) National Maternal Mental Health Hotline (1-833-TLS-MAMA).

  • This free and confidential service offers 24/7 support via call or text to new and expecting moms and their loved ones.
  • The Hotline’s trained counselors help thousands of women and their families needing emotional support during or after pregnancy.
  • The Hotline is available in English and Spanish and offers interpreters in more than 60 languages.

Take advantage of HRSA’s promotional toolkit or order a limited number of printed products for free to share the Hotline with someone who is currently pregnant or postpartum, their loved ones, or caregivers – the Hotline is here for them.

Click Here to go to HRSA’s National Maternal Mental Health Hotline

Click Here to access HRSA’s Free Promotional Toolkit/Order printed products

NRHA Webinar: How Rural Hospitals are Strengthening Swing Bed Compliance to Secure Reimbursement and Prevent Denials, May 14

May 1, 2025

NRHA Webinar: How Rural Hospitals are Strengthening Swing Bed Compliance to Secure Reimbursement and Prevent Denials, May 14

Strong documentation and compliance are the foundation of a successful swing bed program. Rural hospitals that get it right secure sustainable reimbursement, avoid costly denials, and maximize the value of their swing bed services. But with shifting Medicare regulations and complex eligibility requirements, how do you ensure your hospital is set up for success?

Join Valorie Clouse, RN, AGNP, FNP, CCM, who has worked extensively with rural hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) to strengthen swing bed compliance, improve case management, and prevent denials. She has helped rural facilities develop documentation processes that support medical necessity, meet Medicare requirements, and protect financial sustainability.

What You’ll Learn:

  • Documentation practices that ensure compliance and prevent denials with their swing beds,
  • Medicare’s latest regulations on swing bed eligibility and reimbursement,
  • How rural hospitals are securing sustainable revenue and strengthening financial stability with their swing beds,
  • Best practices for optimizing swing bed utilization without financial risk

This session will provide rural hospital leaders with clear, practical guidance to navigate swing bed compliance, avoid common pitfalls, and strengthen financial sustainability.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, May 14, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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AHA Webinar: Advancing Patient Safety: Integrated Nursing Practice, Professional Development and Patient Education, May 8

April 30, 2025

AHA Webinar: Advancing Patient Safety: Integrated Nursing Practice, Professional Development and Patient Education, May 8

It is critical to implement strategies in both nursing development and patient education to enhance patient safety in today’s health care landscape. This webinar will showcase how leading hospitals do just that through innovative approaches.

During this roundtable conversation, leaders from the AHA and Elsevier will share success stories and approaches that have transformed health care organizations. The discussion will illustrate how these approaches create exceptional care delivery and optimal patient outcomes.

Hospital leaders and nursing professionals attending this session will gain valuable insights into enhancing nurse readiness and development, implementing supportive systems that empower nurses at every career stage, and adopting forward-thinking patient education approaches to advance both safety and satisfaction.

Attendees will learn:

  • Discover evidence-based strategies to bridge the readiness gap for novice nurses and accelerate their clinical and professional development,
  • Explore comprehensive support systems that empower nurses at all experience levels to progress and deliver safer patient care.
  • Examine innovative frameworks for patient education that enhance safety outcomes and create sustainable improvements.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, May 8, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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