Showing posts with label health reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health reform. Show all posts
Monday, March 18, 2013

New Report on Health Reform Highlights Role of Nurse Practitioners

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A new report by the National Institute for Health Care Reform digs into a topic of increasingly heated debate in health care — the role of...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Solving Many of the United States' Primary Care Challenges

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With the Affordable Care Act being upheld earlier this summer, there will a large flux on individuals with insurance coverage that require p...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

RN Labor Supply Bubble: What Does it Mean for Rural Health Care?

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Over the past year, many studies have predicted that a temporary employment bubble is approaching for Registered Nurses in many urban areas....
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Finding A First Job Not Easy For New Nurses

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For those of you that are regular readers of the INQRI blog, this story continues our focus on the difficult that new nurses are having ente...
Friday, June 29, 2012

A Quick Round Up of Nurses Responses to The Supreme Court's Ruling on Health Care Reform

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With the Supreme Court ruling to uphold the entire Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (ACA), we thought it would be fitting to sha...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

How Will the ACA Effect Long-Term Care?

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In a new Health Affairs article (supported by the Commonwealth Fund ), Naylor, Kurtzman, Grabowski, et al., analyze and provide policy reco...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

National Survey Finds Nurses in Physicians’ Offices See Salary Hike

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The June edition of Healthcare Finance News featured the results from a survey that found nurses and nurse managers saw an average salary ...
Monday, May 14, 2012

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners To Roll Out Educational Campaign This Week

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Earlier this morning, Sarah Kliff, writing for The Washington Post's WonkBlog , detailed how the demand of health services is expected t...
Monday, April 30, 2012

How Young Nurses Are Invigorating the Profession

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Before we discuss our highlighted news story for today, we would like to thank all of you who attended INQRI's successful National Confe...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Op-Ed: Healthcare Reform's Missing Link - Nurse Practitioners

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Yesterday, local Indiana news source, wsbt.com , featured an Op-Ed by Dr. Patricia Dennehy that discussed how advanced practice registered n...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Reflecting On Dr. Berwick's Tenure As CMS Administrator

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In this month's edition of Health Affairs, Harris Meyer wrote a fascinating piece reflecting on Dr. Don Berwick's short tenure as th...
Friday, June 3, 2011

Nurse-Run Clinics Provide Cost-Effective, High Quality Care

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The American Nurses Association has recently issued a statement commending the Joint Commission for their recognition of nurse-led clinics ...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Health Wonk Review: Spring Has Sprung & Mud Still Flung

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Check out the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review, hosted by The Incidental Economist: The “Spring Has Sprung and Mud Still Flung” Edit...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Health Affairs Article: "The Trade-Off Among Quality, Quantity, And Cost: How To Make It—If We Must"

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This week, we'll be highlighting papers published in the new edition of Health Affairs, entitled "Still Crossing the Quality Chasm....
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

HHS Partnership for Patients Initiative

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Today, the Department of Health and Human Services announced their commitment to use $1 billion in new funding from the Affordable Care Act ...

Health Affairs Article: "Creating A Framework For Getting Quality Into The Public Health System"

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This week, we'll be highlighting papers published in the new edition of Health Affairs, entitled "Still Crossing the Quality Chasm....
Friday, November 19, 2010

Challenges Facing the Nursing Workforce

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Special thanks to INQRI grantees Nancy Dunton (National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators) and Patti Hamilton (Midwestern University) f...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

Nurses' Role in the Future of Health Care

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In today's New York Times , Pauline Chen, M.D., takes a look at Nurses' Role in the Future of Health Care  by explaining the incredi...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Health Wonk Review Wishes You a Happy Veteran's Day

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Happy Veteran's Day! On this day, we commemorate and thank those who have served our country, making incredible sacrifices to preserve t...
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Health Reform and the Future of Nursing - New Webinar Series

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The focus on nursing in the Affordable Care Act paired with the recommendations put forth by the Initiative on the Future of Nursing Committ...