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Do you have an elderly client who, despite your best efforts, is in and out of the hospital and emergency department, has problems with medication compliance, and otherwise seems incapable of understanding or following his or her recommended treatment plan?
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The profession of geriatric care manager has evolved because of the tremendous challenges that health care professionals and families face in managing the care of senior citizens, says Beverly Bernstein Joie, MS, CMC, president of Elder Connections in Philadelphia.
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Project Dulce, a diabetes care management program housed at Whittier Institute for Diabetes in La Jolla, CA, has successfully addressed not only the difficult challenge of helping patients manage their diabetes, but also another issue of growing concern to quality managers: improving outcomes among minority populations.
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Billing data, supply costs, staff costs, and patient satisfaction are top issues for all outpatient surgery managers, but benchmark studies that address these areas don't always focus on similar procedures so that comparisons can be made easily.
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Health services is the largest private industry sector in the United States, but being trained in health and safety did not prevent that group from being the most-injured group of workers in 2002 more health care workers were hurt on the job that year than construction workers and miners combined.
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