With diminished funding for mental health (MH) services in Pennsylvania, patients with MH or substance use concerns have been presenting to area EDs.
In today's complicated healthcare arena, new case managers need a strong educational program to learn all the components of the job.
Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Center's heart failure disease management program reduced readmissions for heart failure by 49%.
You join a collaborative because you want access to data and ideas.
An integrated system assisted providers at five orthopedic clinics in integrating video-based decision aids to support shared decision-making (SDM) into the care of potential candidates for joint replacement surgery. Group Health Cooperative, a Seattle-based system that provides care and coverage to more than 600,000, distributed decision aids to a portion of eligible patients, mostly the best surgical candidates. It was associated with significant reductions in surgery rates and overall healthcare costs among all potential joint replacement candidates.
