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In these times of dwindling health care reimbursement, there's no phrase more significant to managers - and their bosses - than "denial management."
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Today's case managers need to understand outcomes and track them in order to prove that their interventions have value, says Mary Jane McKendry, RN, CCM, MBA, director of education, training, and consulting for McKesson and president-elect of the Case Management Society of New England in Hampstead, NH.
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With payers sharpening their pencils and refusing to pay for what they deem to be unnecessary hospital stays, case managers need more than ever to help their hospital balance the clinical and financial aspects of health care.
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Comply with these stroke evaluation time targets recommended by the Bethesda, MD-based National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke.
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At Davis Memorial Hospital, case managers work 10-hour shifts, four days a week, often choosing their own days off.
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When Millie Brown, a former manager in the billing department at Children's Health Care of Atlanta, became director of patient access at the hospital about two years ago, it was natural that she would look for opportunities for improvement in the quality of registration data.
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Do stroke patients in your emergency department (ED) always receive a computed tomography (CT) scan within 25 minutes, and do you have results within 45 minutes? If not, you're not following recommended time frames for stroke care - a scenario commonly occurring in community EDs, according to a just-published study.
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Nursing standing orders for ED patients with stroke symptoms at Community Medical Center in Toms River, NJ.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued infection control guidance for managing people in the health care setting and in the community who may be infected with the monkey pox virus. In a late June news briefing, a CDC official said the agency was investigating 33 cases of possible human infection with the virus in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Illinois.
