Discharge Planning Advisor-Discharge planning process identified as 'area of need'
CMSA gears workshop to hospital case manager
Hospital case managers involved in discharge planning are desperately seeking help in the area of education and professional support, says Kathleen Moreo, president of the Little Rock, AR-based Case Management Society of America (CMSA).
CMSA has learned from its acute-care special interest group (SIG) that "many hospital case managers don't feel we're addressing some of their most burning education and professional needs," adds Moreo, an independent case manager based in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
"Our SIG continues to identify the discharge planning process as the area where help is most needed," she says. "It involves so much of the [case managers'] days, and they need better ways to do plans, track outcomes — all the things that the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations expects them to do while also working with the patient."
In response to that need, Moreo says, CMSA plans to offer a one-day workshop geared to the hospital case manager in conjunction with the Utilization Management/Case Management Best Practice Conference and Expo, set for November in San Diego. That conference is sponsored jointly by CMSA and the Washington, DC-based Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (URAC).
"We want hospital case managers to know we are acutely aware of this need and are trying to address it," she adds.
[Editor's note: For more information on the UM/CM Best Practice Conference and Expo, call the Case Management Society of America at (501) 225-2229 or log onto its Web site at www.cmsa.org.]
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