Hospital Case Management – December 1, 2012
December 1, 2012
View Issues
-
Make the hospitalist team your new best friends
In today's healthcare environment, as payers tighten reimbursement and auditors from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and commercial payers increase their scrutiny of hospital records, hospitals need to ensure that all patients are admitted in the right level of care and that they move through the continuum as quickly and safely as possible. -
Hospital at Home helps improve patient flow
Presbyterian Healthcare Services' Hospital at Home program, which provides acute care services in the homes of patients who might otherwise be hospitalized, has improved patient satisfaction and cut the cost of hospital care by about 30% for the Albuquerque, NM-based integrated healthcare delivery system. -
Consider palliative care, hospice as options
Case managers have the opportunity to provide valuable assistance to their patients who are frequently readmitted to the hospital with advanced chronic illnesses or who are approaching end of life, says Jennie Roberts, RN, CCM, MBA, chief nursing officer for Evercare Hospice and Palliative Care, based in Minneapolis, which provides hospice and palliative care services throughout the country. -
Ambulatory Care Quarterly: ED-based hospitalist team helps cut boarding
One of the problems associated with the boarding of admitted patients in the ED is that the practice inevitably leads to increased diversion when the ED's capacity to care for new patients is diminished.