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A simple communication tool used by case management and nursing has decreased the turnaround between when discharge orders are issued and the time the patient is out the door at North Broward Medical Center in Deerfield Beach, FL.
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It took more than 260 days, hundreds of hours on the telephone, and a lot of networking and brainstorming for Chesapeake General Hospital in Chesapeake, VA, to find post-acute care for a seriously ill pediatric patient.
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Reducing readmissions has become an increasingly important goal for hospitals. Medicare is evaluating various payment incentives to encourage lower rates of preventable readmissions.
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Under updated infection control guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Standard Precautions now include respiratory/cough etiquette instructions.
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Case managers play a critical role in patient throughput and their voices should be heard whenever hospital staff meet to discuss barriers to admission and discharge and how they can be eliminated, says Charlotte Thompson, RRT, BA, MBA, manager in KPMG LLP's health care advisory practice.
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At Ingham Regional Medical Center in Lansing, MI, case managers take the lead in a multidisciplinary effort to increase the number of patients who are discharged by noon.
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Emergency medicine practitioners have little control over the flow of patients into their facilities. Federal law requires them to examine and treat virtually everyone who comes through the door.
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Physicians should not purchase medical malpractice insurance from the surplus lines insurance markets unless there is no coverage available to them from the admitted markets.
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The news stories shocked many Americans: ED staff ignored a dying woman's pleas for help as she bled to death of a perforated bowel on the floor of their waiting room.
