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Sumner Regional Medical Center in Gallatin, TN, offers good evidence that quick-turnarounds are indeed possible when you have motivated staff.
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A social work presence in the emergency department (ED) is critical to the effectiveness of the case management process.
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At Cheyenne (WY) Regional Medical Center, recovery audit contractor (RAC) determined that a significant number of surgical one-day inpatient stays should have been billed as observation.
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A program that provides support for uninsured patients has saved $4.56 million over 18 months at Memorial Hermann Healthcare System in Houston.
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Not only is the emergency department (ED) not just for admissions, but it has become a key and strategic element of today's case management departments. A primary route of entry for many patients across the United States, it can make or break a hospital in today's highly audited environment.
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The emergency department (ED) case manager has four principal roles that should be observed. Those role are as follows:
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Recognizing that hospital readmissions are costly for providers and insurers alike, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois and the Illinois Hospital Association are collaborating on a quality initiative to reduce the rate of hospital readmissions.
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A consortium of 10 pediatric hospitals in Bangladesh, Egypt, Malawi, Pakistan, and Vietnam was assembled by the World Health Organization CSF5 study group with funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development to compare 5 days vs. 10 days of therapy with ceftriaxone.
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The United States Perinatal HIV Surveillance Project tracks HIV-infected pregnant women in care in 15 locations throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.
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By 2007, the prevalence of fluoroquinolone resistance among N. gonorrhoeae had become so widespread in the United States that the CDC recommended against use of drugs of that class in the treatment of gonorrhea.
