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Understanding the HAC Hospital-Acquired Condition
www.stratishealth.orgBeginning in FY 2015, the Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Reduction Program, mandated by the Affordable Care Act, requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) to reduce hospital payments by 1 percent for hospitals that rank
The Business Case for Higher Levels of Nurse Staffing in ...
www.nursingworld.orgoutcomes as hospital-acquired conditions (HACs), mortality, and hospital readmissions. In this second paper, ANA and Avalere explore the business case for increasing nurse staffing to achieve not only improvements in the quality of care explored in the first paper, but also decreased LOS, and the net financial impact of both on hospital budgets.
Understanding the HAC Hospital-Acquired Condition
www.stratishealth.orgThe Lake Superior Quality Innovation Network serves Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Quality Improvement Organization Program.
HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED CONDITIONS - Leapfrog
www.leapfroggroup.orghospital-acquired conditions standards measured in this report what are they leapfrog’s standard A pressure ulcer is a sore or wound on the skin that forms when a patient lays or