Peg Graham

Wage shortfalls ranged from $1.56 to $5.03 per hour, with New York, California, Texas, Louisiana, and Washington, DC, offering the least competitive wages. mcknights.com/news/aarp-scor… @NY_Statewide @SenatorCCleare @LizKrueger

Thought this might be of interest too for anyone interested in Health Equity and overlap with Soc Determ of Health: cms.gov/files/document/data-… @NY_StateWide Great overview a the Annual Conference by Dr. Cord Stone, NYS Office of Health Equity and Human Rights @HealthNYGOV

GREAT CONFERENCE earlier this week. Thought this might be helpful to those concerned about Health Equity, Soc Determ of Health cms.gov/files/document/cms-2… @NY_StateWide

Am keeping an eye out for this report from Alice Bonner and her colleagues! #nursinghomes @NY_Statewide lnkd.in/eUQFCMvz

How about a Graduate Nursing Education program that has the same amount of funding as Graduate Medical Education? Research dollars to support Nursing faculty at the same level as medical faculty are supported, i.e., not unpaid pr…lnkd.in/eqpEHCUU lnkd.in/etTyd_xw

" . . . those states that opened up Medicaid HCBS benefited from reductions in nursing home populations and accompanying savings offsets. Specifically, a 1% increase in HCBS spending was associated with reductions in the state nurs…lnkd.in/eKv9Kj8f lnkd.in/e4VG2HtC

Study: Shortages force 89 percent of home care agencies to turn away care mcknightshomecare.com/study-… @NY_StateWide

"Much of the underperformance of AMCs may be explained by two core competencies that AMCs lack: the limited ability to redesign clinical workflows and inability to change their economic relationships with their own specialists and…lnkd.in/exnbvRbr lnkd.in/eRj5EcyY

Please note our comment to this important overview of the direct care worker shortage "solution set." #directcare lnkd.in/ej8DHKt4

Here's a number to focus the mind: 63,720. That's the HRSA estimate of national shortage of full-time registered nurses by 2030 - lnkd.in/eXXhDntn

Lessons to be learned here? "“FQHCs are already doing the work of value-based care, they're just not getting paid for it,” Herrera said. “They're addressing social drivers of health, they're providing social work services, case ma…lnkd.in/eRAw746h lnkd.in/eRJEr_TF

It's hard to let go, isn't it? "A key lesson that the US can learn from Japan’s experience is that as its population ages, the need for long-term care will increase, necessitating better control of acute care spending." Isn't tha…lnkd.in/eECd253p lnkd.in/eeGN7uRR

"y. This article highlights research conducted by McKinsey in collaboration with the ANA Enterprise on how nurses are actually spending their time during their shifts and how they would ideally distribute their time if given the ch…lnkd.in/eKs6TK-v mck.co/43tMB7v

Medical diagnostic care is essential to everyone, including people with disabilities, and often requires people to transfer onto diagnostic equipment, such as examination tables and chairs, for evaluation. Particularly helpful in r…lnkd.in/efkGHVVQ lnkd.in/edzcqxjR

Sounds like there was no concurrent Hospital at Home, Primary Care at Home, SNF at Home programs underway. WOuld Value-based program detected a bigger effect if there had been? lnkd.in/eny9misM

If you are working in long term care and you read nothing else this week, make time to read this. It may be confirmation bias on my part, but I am really jazzed to read that someone in Skilled Nursing says: "I know that everythin…lnkd.in/ev_VzuTp lnkd.in/ebuHyvsd

What a default could mean for Medicaid and other federal benefits. How quickly powerful people forget the lessons of COVID and go back to "playing hardball with the lives of people at the los low end of the economic scale. @NY_Statewide thehill.com/policy/healthcar…

Now, insured people have difficulty getting MD offices to return calls, get prescriptions filled, figure out how to get home health support - because of "rules" established by a system that makes that difficult. Time for a change! Medicare For ALL healthcarefinancenews.com/ne…

"The need for home-based primary care is only growing, Sacks and Singleton said. HCCI estimates there are 3,000 doctors performing this service. There needs to be 12,000. Only 15% of those who need home-based primary care are recei…lnkd.in/eD6y4QsZ lnkd.in/e7sYkxWa

CMS "determined the equipment serves a medical purpose in assisting with transfers in and out of a power wheelchair and with performing reaching activities." This took years, and tons of advocacy - well done RESNA NCART @aahomecare !! lnkd.in/e6aFxmfu