Becker's Healthcare May 30, 2024
There is ongoing dialogue about the nursing shortage in the U.S., but part of the conversation may be getting lost, says Olga Yakusheva, PhD, a professor at the University of Michigan School of Nursing in Ann Arbor.
Dr. Yakusheva, along with Robert Longyear, CEO of Avenue Health, a healthcare service company, argue that what healthcare needs is a new hospital funding model. According to their collaborative research, which was published May 20 in Health Affairs, “unbundling” nursing care from hospital care and treating it separately in government reimbursement models.
“When we need legal advice, we pay a lawyer; when we see a doctor, the doctor sends us the bill,” Dr. Yakusheva said in a University of Michigan Q&A shared...
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