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Wanted to extend the opportunity to all Vascular Access Nurses: Registration for Navigating the Changing Healthcare Environment, MinniVan‘s twelfth annual spring conference, is now open until April 13. Five health care professionals will offer their expertise in lectures on April 23.

Acute care facilities have significantly reduced the number of CLABSIs since the CMS non-payment rules went into effect in 2008.  The CDC has reported that CLABSIs for hospitalized patients was 41% lower than expected in 2011.  With this reduction however the number

In fiscal 2015, 721 hospitals will have their Medicare payments reduced for being among the 25 percent of hospitals with the highest rates of hospital-acquired conditions. Here are 15 things to know about the HAC program and the hospitals receiving

By Maureen McKinney  | December 18, 2014 More than 700 hospitals will see their total Medicare payments docked by 1% in fiscal 2015 as part of the first year of a federal penalty program aimed at reducing preventable harm and improving patient safety.

  The nurses at the VA Hospital in Iron Mountain MI, held two days of vascular access education.  The hospital currently has 4 nurses who place PICC lines.  Adding another nurse will allow the team to be available to “insert

Thank you MinniVAN for the opportunity to speak on a topic that is key to creating successful vascular access programs.  “Educating the Entire Team”  Download the ppt presentation  below: minnivan

Are we seeing an increase in this complication of VAD’s post PICC and Midline placement?  It seems like I have been getting more calls on this complication.  We need to prevent this complication with our patients.  Are we measuring the

Rounding has become an important aspect of patient care.  It gives the health care team an opportunity to get together and discuss the needs of the patient in front of the patient.  More importantly it gives the patient a feeling

What quality measures will be used to evaluate hospitals for the Hospital VBP Program? Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has adopted 13 quality measures tracked in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program for the fiscal year 2013.  The following table

What is the methodology behind the Hospital’s Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program? Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) will assess each hospital’s performance by comparing its achievement and improvement scores for each applicable Hospital VBP measure and awarding the higher score