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Not long ago, case managers for Medical Management International lugged huge cases of patient files with them when they visited clients and often worked into the night, entering documentation and patient notes into the computer.
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An estimated 1.3 million patients received hospice services in 2006, a 162% increase in 10 years, and approximately 36% of all deaths in the United States in 2006 were under the care of a hospice program.
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This is the first article of a two-part series on how to reduce the risk of infection for patients with indwelling bladder catheters.
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A nurse practitioner-led care management model has resulted in lower costs, better care, and high patient satisfaction ratings for frail elderly nursing home patients being managed by Inspiris, a Brentwood, TN-based health care management firm.
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When 78 million baby boomers reach age 65 in 2011 they will depend upon a health care workforce that is too small and unprepared to meet their needs, according to a new report from the Institute of Medicine.
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In a move that has generated great concern in the ED community, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing to more than double the list of hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) for which it will no longer pay hospitals at a higher rate for the resulting increased costs of care.
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A leading official from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in Boston says that the impetus behind its list of hospital-acquired conditions for which it will no longer pay the "bump-up" in the complexity rate is a desire to improve quality of care. Some of the fears expressed by ED experts may be unfounded, he says.
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In the wake of a series of media warnings about the deadly health care-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA) comes a new study in Annals of Emergency Medicine that outlines the emergence of its "cousin," community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA).
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Although EDstat, a new eight-bed area that was added to the ED at Reston (VA) Hospital Center about a year ago, is only open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., it has helped to improve the performance of the entire ED.
