Hospital Case Management – June 1, 2012
June 1, 2012
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Treat challenging patients with understanding, respect
Every case manager encounters challenging patients and family members those who are angry, provocative, depressed, or just plain ornery. That's because people in the hospital are sick, under stress, and often fearful about their situation. -
Redesign standardizes care coordination
A far-reaching redesign of the care coordination process at Norfolk, VA-based Sentara Healthcare has standardized the process across hospitals, centralized the administrative and clerical tasks that care coordinators must perform, and freed the staff at the bedside to concentrate on working with patients. -
Providers team up to cut HF readmissions
A Hartford (CT) Physician Hospital Organization's program to reduce the rate of readmission for patients discharged with a primary diagnosis of heart failure has kept the readmission rate at between 11% and 13% for the last year, according to Linda Conroy, RN, BSN, clinical integration case manager for the Hartford Physician Hospital Organization, a partnership between Hartford Hospital and Hartford Physicians Association. -
Multi-faceted program cuts HF readmissions
After Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip, NY, began a comprehensive process to reduce readmission rates for heart failure patients, readmission rates dropped from 21.1% to 15.3% in just a few months. -
Ambulatory Care Quarterly: Rapid intake energizes no-wait ED model
Getting an entire staff of physicians, nurses, and techs to do things differently is never easy, but you can clear away hurdles by giving them the ability to formulate some of their own solutions. That, at least, has been the experience of Swedish Medical Center in Issaquah, WA, in its quest to implement a more efficient, no-wait ED concept. The approach appears to be sitting well with patients, too. -
Case Management Insider
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