Case Management Advisor – September 1, 2020
September 1, 2020
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Coordinating Care for Patients with Dementia Challenges Case Managers
The proportion of Americans with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias is expected to grow from 1.6% of the U.S. population in 2014 to 3.3% of the population in 2060. Case managers might see patients who have not been diagnosed with dementia forget their medications, or not eating, exercising, or sleeping well. Their family caregivers might say the patient is driving them crazy, but cannot explain any recent behavioral changes.
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Community-Based Organizations Help with Care Coordination for Patients with Dementia
When most people think of the care continuum, they might imagine it as from the hospital to skilled nursing facilities to home, maybe with a primary care provider visit here and there. But that is not all, and case managers can use many more resources than those.
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Add More Screening Tools to Case Management Toolbox
Case managers need tremendous tools to help them manage care of chronically ill patients along the continuum, she notes. It is important that case managers use evidence-based tools in their practice, outcomes, and decisions.
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Nurses Call for OSHA Regulation as Pandemic Takes Bitter Toll
The continuing onslaught of COVID-19 is decimating the ranks of U.S. healthcare workers, leading to calls for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to issue an infectious disease standard requiring employers to protect medical staff.
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Chicago ED Accelerates Care, Improves Behavioral Health Prescribing Practices
The emergency department at St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago has implemented a two-pronged approach aimed at improving the way behavioral health patients are managed. This includes a new risk-stratification process that categorizes patients as low-, moderate-, or high-risk based on their diagnosis, and also promotes using newer-generation antipsychotic drugs.