Case Management Advisor – July 1, 2006
July 1, 2006
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It takes a team effort to keep elderly patients out of the hospital
Do you have an elderly client who, despite your best efforts, is in and out of the hospital and emergency department, has problems with medication compliance, and otherwise seems incapable of understanding or following his or her recommended treatment plan? -
Geriatric CM is a fast-growing field
The profession of geriatric care manager has evolved because of the tremendous challenges that health care professionals and families face in managing the care of senior citizens, says Beverly Bernstein Joie, MS, CMC, president of Elder Connections in Philadelphia. -
Diabetes care program addresses specific needs
Project Dulce, a diabetes care management program housed at Whittier Institute for Diabetes in La Jolla, CA, has successfully addressed not only the difficult challenge of helping patients manage their diabetes, but also another issue of growing concern to quality managers: improving outcomes among minority populations. -
Improve outcomes, step toward success with P4P
As home health agencies look for ways to improve outcomes and increase their potential for success within a pay-for-performance (P4P) reimbursement system, disease management programs that allow staff members to specialize in care for specific types of patients may be the road to success for some agencies, according to experts. -
Study compares business practices, technology use
Billing data, supply costs, staff costs, and patient satisfaction are top issues for all outpatient surgery managers, but benchmark studies that address these areas don't always focus on similar procedures so that comparisons can be made easily. -
Injuries cost $406 billion in lifetime expenses
Health services is the largest private industry sector in the United States, but being trained in health and safety did not prevent that group from being the most-injured group of workers in 2002 more health care workers were hurt on the job that year than construction workers and miners combined. -
Tool enables state quality comparisons
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has unveiled a new interactive web-based tool that provides each state a way to evaluate its health care quality, thus providing another resource for benchmarking. -
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