Hospital Case Management – September 1, 2012
September 1, 2012
View Issues
-
Joining Hands to Prevent Readmissions
-
Look beyond your hospital walls to prevent readmissions
As a hospital case manager, you may think your job is done when you ensure that your patients have a discharge plan and have left the hospital. -
Meetings help improve patient transitions
When UConn Health Center/John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington, CT, first proposed meetings with post-acute providers to improve transitions, only two skilled nursing facilities and a few home health agencies agreed to participate. -
Community collaboration helps cut readmits
By improving processes within the hospital and collaborating with post-acute providers in the community, Charles Cole Memorial Hospital in Coudersport, PA, decreased its 30-day readmission rate for all patients by 15.9% in a one-year period. -
Nine hospitals collaborate to prevent readmissions
Nine hospitals in southern Texas have joined with the area's Agency on the Aging and formed the Rio Grande Valley Readmission Coalition to follow at-risk patients after they are discharged from the hospital in an effort to prevent readmissions. -
Hospital, nurses team up to prevent readmissions
In an effort to reduce readmissions, University Hospital in Newark, NJ, partnered with the Visiting Nurses Association Health Group and developed a program that uses intensive case management to reduce readmissions for patients with multiple chronic conditions. -
How mobility can shorten stay, improve outcomes
Every now and then at Sunnybrook Health Sciences in Toronto, Canada, there was talk about getting ventilated patients up and about even if they were still intubated. -
Case Management Insider: The Role of Case Management in an Era of Healthcare Reform — Part 3
In the last two issues, we discussed some of the topics related to health care reform that are of greatest interest to case management professionals. This month's Case Management Insider continues this discussion with a look at patient satisfaction, mortality measures, and the new efficiency of care measure. -
Hospital Report blog