Health Services Advisory Group, Inc. (HSAG)

With two years of able guidance from HSAG, the second largest nursing home in the U.S. with 769 licensed beds—Laguna Honda Hospital & Rehabilitation Center—has regained its nursing home certification from Medi-Cal, the state Medicaid agency. Back in April 2022, Laguna Honda had been stripped of its certification by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) following four substandard surveys exposing failures in its staff training and competency, patient-centered care, and infection control activities. The San Francisco Department of Public Health reached out to HSAG to assist Laguna Honda as it prepared for recertification. With a focus on patient-centered care, leadership realignment, mentorship, and training, HSAG guided Laguna Honda to meet its action plan milestones. Laguna Honda is continuing its efforts to reinstate its Medicare certification. Read more about this success story at https://lnkd.in/gYeeZeGq.

NET Program - Lunar New Year Celebration As part of a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) nursing home effort, HSAG launched the Neighborhood Enrichment Team (NET) Program to help nursing home residents connect with their community and enrich their quality of life. Through the NET Program, HSAG partnered with Mission Palms Healthcare Center, in Westminster, California, and coordinated with Bolsa Grande High School's Vietnamese Student Association, to perform the Lion Dance and Fan Dance to celebrate the Lunar New Year for its residents. Watch this YouTube video to see details of the celebration and its impact on nursing home residents: https://lnkd.in/gH72tmvY.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is recruiting primary and ambulatory care providers that deliver care via telemedicine, including virtual first and direct-to-consumer telemedicine providers, to participate in the free AHRQ Safety Program for Telemedicine: Improving Antibiotic Use. You’ll learn best practices in the diagnosis and treatment of common infectious syndromes over telemedicine; enhance efficiency through tools such as scripts for live and patient portal interactions; and improve patient satisfaction! Find out more at https://lnkd.in/e8HKqcKu.

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!

Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG) Healthcare Policy and Quality Measurement Division (HPQM) provides clinical and analytical expertise for quality measure development, healthcare policy and evaluation, and medication safety. To support our customers, HSAG's multidisciplinary team draws on extensive experience in healthcare administration and research, clinical quality measure development, clinical care, medication management, electronic health records, data analysis, and project management. HSAG convenes nationally recognized experts across a wide array of clinical specialties, together with patient and caregiver representatives, to guide these efforts to improve health outcomes. HSAG’s HPQM work focuses on three areas: --Healthcare policy and evaluation --Quality measure development and testing --Health services research We meet our customers’ needs by: --Helping CMS use clinical quality measures in quality improvement and reporting programs to drive improvement in healthcare and empower patients to make informed decisions. --Assisting various medical academies and associations by performing environmental scans, gap analyses, technical review of measure specifications and calculation logic, undertaking scientific acceptability testing, and more. --Educating stakeholders on clinical data insights to help drive better care and enhance patient safety across all medical settings. To learn more about our HPQM programs, visit https://lnkd.in/gZQ4xAvU.  Every team at HSAG dedicates itself to make healthcare better. If you would like to join this outstanding company to help make a difference, visit www.hsag.com/careers and apply for one of our open positions. #Quality #Improvement  

Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG) offers a complete scope of audit services. With expanded capabilities that complement our traditional services, HSAG helps managed care organizations achieve economies of scale without sacrificing quality. Further, our team provides comprehensive auditing solutions with an extensive history conducting audits across diverse organizations. Our unique audit methodology is based on: A customer-centric, collaborative approach. Innovative tools that assist healthcare entities with collecting and reporting valid and reliable measure rates. We meet our customers’ needs through: —Flexible timelines. —Targeted technical assistance. —Standardized audit tools and reports. With 30+ years of audit experience, our auditing experts make the audit experience rewarding and beneficial for our customers. To learn more about our auditing expertise, visit www.hsag.com/audits. Every team at HSAG dedicates itself to make healthcare better. If you would like to join this talented company to help make a difference, visit www.hsag.com/careers and apply for one of our open positions. #Quality #Improvement  

Since our beginning in 1979, Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG) has been committed to improving the quality of healthcare services in order to achieve the best possible patient outcomes. We provide: --Healthcare quality expertise to those who deliver care and those who receive care. --Tools and resources for patients, families, and caregivers to be advocates for their own health. We have advanced to become a multi-state Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), External Quality Review Organization (EQRO), and End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Network contractor, serving approximately: 12 percent of our nation’s Medicare population. 49 percent of our nation’s Medicaid population. 29 percent of our nation's dialysis population. Quality: It’s Who We Are and What We Do We embody quality in all we do: in the services we provide, in the knowledge we share, and in the relationships we build with providers, patients, families, and caregivers. Quality is our way of doing business and directs all of our actions and work. Every team at HSAG dedicates itself to make healthcare better. If you would like to join this talented company to help make a difference, visit www.hsag.com/careers and apply for one of our open positions. #Quality #Improvement