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The RN case manager will; The social worker will; As a team, the case manager and social worker will; Goals of the team are to.
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Since the implementation of a state-of-the-art electronic patient record system, case managers at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare have more time to visit with patients and their families, enabling them to better prepare the patient for going home.
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Providing medical care for the uninsured should be a community initiative and not just the responsibility of hospitals that provide indigent care, asserts Donna Zazworsky, MS, RN, CCM, FAAN, director of community and outreach for St. Elizabeth of Hungary Clinic in Tucson, AZ.
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Faced with a growing number of uninsured patients and rapidly escalating costs for treating them, Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, TX, created a case management program for the uninsured that has resulted in shorter lengths of stays (LOS), fewer readmissions, and less utilization of the emergency department (ED) by patients being managed.
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Higher patient copays and increasing numbers of people who are working but not insured have made the management of self-pay accounts a more crucial issue than ever for most of the nations hospitals.
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In September 1999, INTEGRIS Health asked 10 employees from their two Oklahoma City hospitals, INTEGRIS Southwest Medical Center (ISMC) and INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center (IBMC), to redesign certain elements of admitting, case management, medical records, and billing practices.
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Communication between hospitals and the primary care providers in the community is essential in managing the care of the uninsured, asserts Diana Resnik, vice president of community care for Seton Healthcare Network in Austin, TX.
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Antiretroviral treatment soon will be available to millions more people in sub-Saharan Africa and other developing nations, and international HIV experts fear theyll see increased risk behaviors when the drugs become commonplace.
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The Mother-to-Child-Transmission (MTCT)-Plus initiative was developed in response to the expansion of programs for preventing HIV transmission between mothers and children with the added feature of providing ongoing antiretroviral treatment to mothers.
