Hospital Case Management – December 1, 2016
December 1, 2016
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Don’t Leave Managing Patient Throughput Off Your To-do List
Maintaining good patient flow is more important than ever as CMS and other payers move toward payment reform basing reimbursement on the entire episode of care.
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Five More Strategies to Improve Patient Throughput
Case managers can’t create good patient flow alone — it takes a team.
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It Takes Data to Improve Patient Flow
Improving patient flow is a two-pronged process: correct delays as they happen, and look at patterns of avoidable delays and develop solutions.
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ED Case Managers Can Prevent Bottlenecks Before They Happen
Hospitals need to have case management at every point of entry to ensure patients are placed in the most appropriate level of care.
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Patient Flow Initiative Eliminates Barriers to Discharge
When Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, UT, reached capacity a few months after opening, a year-long initiative on patient flow determined that part of the holdup was taking care of last-minute details.
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Using Telemedicine to Address Crowding in the ED
Many hospitals already are leveraging telemedicine to quickly connect patients with needed consults for things such as stroke and mental healthcare. However, there is growing interest in applying this same type of technology to the problem of crowding in the ED.
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The Process of Managing Long-Stay and Difficult-to-Discharge Patients
Discharge planning has become a much more complex and challenging process — and a process it is. We can no longer think of it as a destination, but rather as a continuation of the care the patient has received.