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When the case managers at HealthPartners work with patients who are at risk for clinical complications, they focus on helping their clients meet personal goals, not those of the health care organization.
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When a member of Worcester, MA-based Fallon Community Health Plan is newly diagnosed with HIV-AIDS, the first person he or she is likely to see is Rita Wesolowski, RN, BSN, ACRN, the HIV-AIDS on-site care manager.
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There are two critical times when patients newly diagnosed with depression are likely to stop taking their medicine the early weeks of treatment and after three months when they start to feel better, says Laura Schneider, LSCW, CEAP, manager of assistance programs and the Taking Charge of Depression Program for PacifiCare Behavioral Health.
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Before Health Plan Alliance started HeartSmart Sisters, a cardiovascular disease management program, the health plan held focus groups to determine what interventions would be most effective with its targeted group, African-American women.
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The diagnosis of patients with chest pain is straightforward only occasionally. A systematic method of evaluating these patients is essential to assess for potentially life-threatening conditions. This article discusses noncardiac causes of chest pain, particularly GI causes and aortic dissection.
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Prevention researchers presented a sobering picture of the challenges that remain in reducing HIV transmission and increasing HIV testing and treatment at the 2003 National HIV Prevention Conference recently held in Atlanta.
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In the same summer that the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) latest data show that injection drug use remains a major factor in AIDS cases, a new study offers evidence that needle exchange programs do not cause an increase in injection drug use.
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Investigators have found that among incarcerated youths in Chicago there are very high rates of behavior that place the children and teen-agers at risk for HIV infection.
