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Research shows that people with severe mental illness are at greater risk of becoming infected with HIV, their care is more costly when they are infected, and their health outcomes are worse than populations without mental illness.
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Record numbers of veterans will die this year, and veteran deaths will remain high for the next decade, experts say.
Community hospices provide care to many of these veterans at the end of their lives, sometimes without hospice staff knowing their patients were in the service. Experts say hospice professionals often do not realize how their patients' military service or war-time experiences might color the way they face their own deaths.
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There's no doubt that chronically ill patients who have the best outcomes are those who adhere to their treatment plan and receive care that follows evidence-based clinical guidelines.
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A comprehensive program that includes face-to-face assessments and telephonic health coaching is helping Medicare beneficiaries in Tennessee with diabetes or congestive heart failure learn to manage their health.
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With the nursing shortage becoming more acute and hospitals offering such perks as sign-on bonuses to attract bedside nurses, case management directors in all arenas are feeling the pinch.
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By partnering with community-based providers throughout the state, Optima Health of Virginia Beach, VA, provides one-on-one intensive case management to high-risk members in its Medicaid disease management programs. Optima Health is a service of Sentara Healthcare.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has named Swedish Medical Center in Seattle the winner of the inaugural Ernest Amory Codman Award in the disease-specific care category, for establishing a comprehensive program that deploys a coordinated team to assure comprehensive, timely, and efficient acute stroke care.
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Anew job can be overwhelming no matter what industry you may choose, but when the new job is in home care, saying that the job is overwhelming may be an understatement.
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Premera Blue Cross new Case Management Collaboration Tool allows case managers to spend more time working with members, helping the company save an estimated $9.6 million a year.
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Since its one of the oldest incentive programs in the country, it might not come as a big surprise that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan was among seven Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Rewarding Results grantees selected to highlight its successes in pay-for-performance programs during a National Press Club briefing in Washington, DC, last November, but the results it has achieved to date are nonetheless impressive.
