Case Management Advisor – December 1, 2009
December 1, 2009
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Patient-centric care coordination decreases hospitalizations, ED visits
A combination of face-to-face and telephonic case management has resulted in high patient satisfaction ratings and a significant decrease in health care utilization for patients with complex medical needs. -
Telemonitoring, education slash hospitalizations
Bayada Nurse's program that combines face-to-face education and remote monitoring of clinical information reduces hospitalizations for patients with congestive heart failure and hypertension. -
Depression program focuses on PCPs
Recognizing that more than half the population with depression is treated in the primary care setting, MercyCare Health Plans developed a depression disease management program focusing on giving primary care physicians the tools they need to be able to recognize and treat depression. -
Act now to strengthen ties with emergency services
When a serious motor vehicle accident occurred at Detroit, MI-based General Motors Corp.'s Milford Proving Ground location, a life flight helicopter was on site less than 10 minutes after the incident. -
Reduce stress with a simple intervention
A mindfulness-based stress reduction intervention, shortened so it could be done in the workplace, was done on healthy employees for a six-week period, with researchers measuring salivary cortisol each week. -
Competition is good when it comes to incentives
At Carolinas HealthCare System, employees can save $200, $400 or $600 annually by meeting up to 10 wellness criteria, such as exercising regularly, using seatbelts, or avoiding tobacco products. -
Health care tops in injuries on the job
Being a nurse's aide or orderly is the most injury-prone job in America. Those aides are four times as likely to be injured on the job as the average worker, and their rate of injury tops freight haulers and handlers, and construction laborers.