Hospital Case Management – January 1, 2004
January 1, 2004
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Data help case management demonstrate its contributions
While many case management organizations are struggling to demonstrate the contributions they make to patient care, reimbursement, and cost containment, the integrated case management department at Sarasota (FL) Memorial Hospital has overcome the barrier and can demonstrate with confidence how it contributes to organizational success. -
Discharge planning system makes documenting easy
At Sarasota (FL) Memorial Hospital, discharge planners dont spend a lot of time checking off boxes to document each individual task they have performed. -
Inpatient case managers handle discharges, review
When Jeanne Musolf, MS, RN, CCM, talks with new employees about the inpatient case management program at Childrens Hospital of Wisconsin, she often tells them, expect that how things are currently will not be how they are six months from now. Were always trying to improve and change. -
Do you offer a choice on home care services?
Discharge planners at some facilities apparently are either unaware of or are ignoring a federal requirement that hospitals offer patients a choice of home care providers and that they tell patients when there is a financial interest between the hospital and an agency to which the patient is being referred. -
Hospitals seeking SNF beds think creatively
As hospital discharge planners and case managers struggle to place patients with complex care needs in skilled nursing facility (SNF) beds amidst the challenges of the prospective payment system (PPS), many are keeping their heads above water with a mix of timely planning, community collaboration, and creative thinking. -
Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ of ethics
Hospital case managers routinely face what I call the Bermuda Triangle of case management ethics. The top of the triangle is the clinical concern, encompassing the medical and treatment needs of the patient. On the right are the financial concerns, and on the left are the legal and ethical issues. In the middle of this triangle is the patient. -
SSM slashes LOS almost two days in just two weeks
Reducing patient length of stay (LOS) from nearly seven days to the regional average of 5.5 days usually takes two years, according to the Health Care Advisory Board, a nationally recognized organization that provides best practices research and analysis to the health care industry. -
Computer documentation won’t cure all problems
For years, health care managers have been reworking documentation forms trying to streamline the process to make it fast and efficient to increase compliance. No one ever designed the perfect form.