Hospital Case Management – March 1, 2015
March 1, 2015
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Is Your Staffing Ratio Right for Your Case Management Model?
The department must have adequate staff that are assigned appropriate responsibilities, experts say.
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Have Data Ready to Back Up Your Need for More Staff
Never ask your hospital’s management to approve more staff unless you have the evidence for the return on investment for your request.
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CM extenders can free up licensed staff to do what they do best
At a time when hiring RN case managers and social workers is a challenge, it may be time to look at hiring case management extenders.
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CM-physician alignment cuts length of stay
The average length of stay for patients with pneumonia, sepsis, and heart failure dropped by one day when a care coordinator was assigned to a hospitalist group and followed its patients throughout the hospital stay during a pilot project at Sentara Princess Anne Hospital in Virginia Beach, VA.
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An extra day in the hospital may prevent readmissions, reduce mortality
With penalties rising for hospitals with high readmission rates, the solution may be to keep patients a day longer, researchers at Columbia Business School concluded.
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Hospital’s wellness program cuts health care costs by more than $5 million in five years
At the place where employee health and hospital benefits and wellness programs intersect, some striking results can be achieved. For JFK Health in Edison, NJ, an employee wellness program, fueled by individual and group biometric data, has resulted in these encouraging outcomes:
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C-Suite Executives: The Final Frontier for Hospital Case Management
Hospital case management is finally coming into its own. Administrators are beginning to understand and recognize the value that case managers can add to the interdisciplinary care team. Unfortunately these are often middle managers such as directors and assistant and associate vice presidents. Many “C-suite” executives are still struggling with understanding and appreciating the value that case managers and social workers bring. So, who are the residents of the C-suite? They include the “chiefs”: the chief executive officer, chief operating officer, chief financial officer, chief nursing officer, or the chief medical officer, among others. They are the most senior members of the hospital staff and they control the final decisions made across the hospital’s systems and patient care areas. They control the purse strings and the long-range vision of the organization.