Hospital Case Management – August 1, 2003
August 1, 2003
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Revamp puts case management in control of hospital beds
When the administration at Davis Memorial Hospital in Elkins, WV, redesigned its case management department, improving reimbursement for emergency department (ED) patients and same-day-surgery patients was a major goal. -
CM staff worked hard to get buy-in for redesign
Before the case management staff at Davis Memorial Hospital in Elkins, WV, went live with its newly designed case management plan, staff worked hard to sell the new arrangement to hospital staff and attending physicians. -
Work week of four 10-hour days is a hit with CMs
At Davis Memorial Hospital, case managers work 10-hour shifts, four days a week, often choosing their own days off. -
Balance clinical, financial sides of patient care
Case managers are in an excellent position to help their hospitals balance both the clinical and the financial sides of patient care, asserts Teresa C. Fugate, RN, BBA, CPHQ, CCM. -
Access Management Quarterly: Get a handle on denials, increase reimbursement
In these times of dwindling health care reimbursement, there's no phrase more significant to managers - and their bosses - than "denial management." -
Access Management Quarterly: Proper ID of plans cut denials by $20 million
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. -
Document outcomes to prove your value
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. -
Case managers can help improve reimbursement
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. -
Critical Path Network: Study says EDs don't meet time targets for stroke
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. -
Critical Path Network: Meet these time targets for all stroke patients
Comply with these stroke evaluation time targets recommended by the Bethesda, MD-based National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke. -
Critical Path Network: Follow these steps for stroke patients
Nursing standing orders for ED patients with stroke symptoms at Community Medical Center in Toms River, NJ. -
Critical Path Network: CDC addressing monkey pox cases
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.