Hospital Case Management – August 1, 2007
August 1, 2007
View Issues
-
Get involved with your hospital's disaster planning initiatives
As your hospital engages in disaster planning, make sure that your case management department is involved in the process, Beverly Cunningham, RN, MS, associate administrator, clinical performance improvement, Medical City Dallas Hospital, advises. -
Simulated disaster helps hospital fine-tune its plan
When McLaren Regional Medical Center got the news that 50 people injured in an airplane crash were headed toward the hospital, the case management staff sprang into action. -
Hospital helps chronically ill prepare for disaster
As hurricane season approaches each year, case managers in North Broward Hospital District's disease state management programs work with their patients to make sure they will be safe if a storm hits the area, causing flooding and power outages. -
Prepare for disaster with scenario-based planning
You're a case manager in an ICU unit and your hospital is in the path of a Category 5 hurricane. How do you make sure your patients get to safety? -
Critcal Path Network: Quality measures gain importance as CMS moves to value-based purchasing
As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) moves toward its value-based purchasing initiative, case managers are in a position to help their hospitals prepare for the time when payment will be linked to quality, rather than just delivery of service. -
Critcal Path Network: Social worker/CM handle babies for moms
Barbara Zielinski, MSW, CCM, does double duty as a case manager and social worker on the women and children's services unit at Ingham Regional Medical Center in Lansing, MI, working with children's protective services or adoption agencies to place some of the infants born at the hospital. -
Critcal Path Network: Advance directives issued in nationwide campaign
Aging with Dignity, the United Health Foundation, the American Hospital Association, and other national and local organizations will distribute 500,000 advance directives in the coming year in a campaign to help patients and families make important advance decisions about end-of-life care. -
Access Management Quarterly: Costly errors are common in same-day surgery arena
Mistakes involving patient classification and preauthorization of procedures are among a lengthy list of common errors made in the same-day surgery arena, says Bob Whipple, RNC, CCM, CCS, MHA, a Boston-based senior management consultant with ACS Healthcare Solutions, who specializes in all areas of the revenue cycle. -
Access Management Quarterly: Putting nurses in access results in financial gains
Adding six nurses to the central scheduling department has dramatically reduced both denied claims and accounts receivable (AR) days at Delnor Community Hospital in Geneva, IL, says Karin Podolski, RN, MSN, MPH, CHAM, director of patient access.