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Nursing License Verification: Necessary, But Complex

Provider Trust

License verification, especially nursing license verification, is essential to ensuring that only the most qualified practitioners are seeing your patients. And according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing , nursing is the largest healthcare profession in the U.S. are employed in nursing.

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Hackensack Meridian Health shows the benefits of telepsychiatry

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"If it is decided that a patient needs further care beyond that of the social worker, the equipment is rolled to the bedside and a licensed psychiatrist is called," Alcera explained. Calling the psychiatrist. " Hackensack Meridian Health reports the program has been very successful.

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Carceral Health Care Is Designed to Fail

Bill of Health

COVID-19 is not the first pandemic within prisons. Like these earlier carceral pandemics, the over 620,000 COVID-19 infections and 3,100 related deaths among incarcerated individuals to date simply expose how U.S. Compare, for example, federal treatment of nursing homes with prisons. By Andrea C.

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Health Provider News – May 20, 2022

Hall Render

COVID-19 public health emergency set to be extended. Covid-19 remains a public health emergency in US, administration says. HHS Announces $15M in Funding For Behavioral Healthcare In Nursing Homes. State Actions to Address Nursing Home Staffing During COVID-19. CALIFORNIA.

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Why Family Caregivers Need Help from the Healthcare Establishment

HIT Consultant

Consider that more seniors are aging at home or in their family members’ homes during the pandemic, especially as COVID-19 deaths in senior living facilities began to climb and facilities tightened visitor restrictions to avoid the spread of infection. since 2015, according to a recent report. More Can—and Must—Be Done.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Editor’s Note: This feature story initially was published on May 6, 2020. In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, connected health and RPM are more important than ever, because they enable physicians to monitor patients without having to come into contact with them, thus preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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