Snow didn’t stop our team of experts from getting to New Hampshire for the first stop of our Skilled Nursing Facilities: Solutions for the Current Climate tour. The room was packed for the session, thanks to our friends at the New Hampshire Health Care Association, who brought folks together from all over the state. We […]
Healthcentric Advisors Heads North to Support Rural Practices with Medicare Quality Payment Program
Rural communities are more likely to be medically underserved than urban ones according to the National Rural Health Association. Our team in Maine supports the most rural state in the country—where more than 60% of the state’s population live in rural areas. But being close to the northern-most point of Maine wasn’t too far for […]
Download our New Dementia Overview Mobile App
One in ten people aged 65 and older in the United States has Alzheimer’s or a related dementia illness. Being a caregiver of someone with dementia can be tough. Our Dementia Overview mobile app contains information and advice to help family and professional caregivers understand and respond to behaviors seen in those with dementia. Download […]
Join us in RI for our Behavioral Health Summit 2018
Continuing Education Credits Available – See Below This unique gathering will offer providers, clinicians, and community service workers an opportunity to learn, discuss, network, and find solutions to a challenging statewide issue. To support a collaborative approach to patient care, medical and behavioral providers will make important connections to better serve this vulnerable population. Our […]
Healthcentric Advisors Receives 2018 Rising Tide Award for Patient Safety Work in Maine
Patient safety is a cornerstone of the work we do at Healthcentric Advisors. Which is why we’re honored to receive the 2018 Rising Tide Award for our patient safety work in Maine from the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine. From left to right: Amy Bennett, Danielle Hersey, John Keimig, […]
Healthcentric Advisors Selected as Masshealth Technical Assistance Vendor
Woburn, MA – Healthcentric Advisors is excited to announce selection as a Technical Assistance Vendor as a part of the MassHealth Delivery System Reform Incentive Payments (DSRIP) Technical Assistance (TA) Program and the MA DSRIP TA Marketplace.
Training medical professionals on how to best handle changing landscape in nursing homes
Local nursing homes are seeing a different kind of resident—they’re younger and often face substance use and behavioral health issues. This is why we’re collaborating with Rhode Island College and the Substance Use & Mental Health Leadership Council of Rhode Island to train medical professionals on how to best handle the needs of this population […]
Diabetes Self-Management Class Helps Hispanic Couple Discover Healthier Eating Habits
Healthy eating can be a challenge for patients who must make ends meet on a fixed monthly income. For one couple, Mr. and Mrs. D in a six-week QIN-QIO-led Diabetes Self-Management class, low income was just one of the barriers keeping them from a healthier lifestyle.
Increasing Home Health Face-to-Face Certification: Impact of a Hospital-Based Intervention
With support from our Rhode Island Healthcare Advisory Board, Healthcentric Advisors initiated collaboration between hospitals and home health agencies to improve patient transfers from the hospital to home. This collaboration led to interventions at hospitals in Rhode Island; most modified their discharge processes to embed required certification into the routine discharge paperwork for patients referred […]
Maine Collaboration Focuses on Community to Effectively Reduce CDI rates
Through its work and partnerships with Maine nursing homes and hospitals, New England QIN-QIO staff recognized that in both the nursing home and hospital setting, leaders were targeting the same goal – a reduction of C. difficile rates in the patients they serve.