Hospital Case Management – October 1, 2004
October 1, 2004
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Internal case management program gets injured employees back to work
An internal case management system for hospital employees who are injured on the job has reduced costs and increased return to work for Allina Hospitals and Clinics, based in Minneapolis. -
CMs, quality managers team up for better care
Merging the case management department with the quality department is the best thing weve ever done, says Sharon Simmons, CRNP, MSN, CNOR, director of clinical excellence for St. Vincents Hospital in Birmingham, AL. Combining the departments has resulted in a tremendous improvement in quality of care as well as improved outcomes, she adds. -
CM is the glue holding the trauma team together
The trauma team at Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo, MI, refers to Dorothy Malcolm, RN, BSN, as the glue that holds us all together. As trauma case manager, Malcolm coordinates care for trauma patients from the time they come into the emergency department (ED), during their entire stay in the hospital and while they are being treated in the outpatient follow-up clinics. -
Critical Path Network: Joint replacement CM helps hospital improve outcomes
Hiring a case manager assigned specifically to manage joint replacement patients has paid dividends for St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, PA. The number of total hip and total knee surgeries has increased from 145 in fiscal year 2003 to an expected 260 during this fiscal year. -
Critical Path Network: Program enables 50 new initiatives in four months
Seton Northwest Hospital in Austin, TX, launched nearly 50 new quality initiatives in a single four-month period after deciding to participate in the Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) program, which was launched by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in Princeton, NJ, and the Boston-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). -
Critical Path Network: JCAHO unveils national patient safety goals
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has released its 2005 National Patient Safety Goals that will apply specifically to hospitals. -
Discharge Planning Advisor: Clinic serves as a model for care of the uninsured
In April 2002, Donna Zazworsky, MS, RN, CCM, FAAN, director of grants, partnerships, and policy at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Clinic in Tucson, AZ, got a telephone call from a case manager at a local hospital who wanted to know if the clinic had a hospital bed it could donate for use by a 17-year-old patient who was being discharged. -
Discharge Planning Advisor: Uninsured cases increase in number, complexity
Arranging care for uninsured and underinsured patients has become more complicated in the past four or five years, says Jennifer DeCamp, MSW, LSW, a social worker at Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago. -
Revised recommendations for flu prevention issued
The Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has released its revised recommendations for the prevention and control of influenza. -
Patient Safety Alert supplement