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Salaries for case management are increasing, but the vast majority of case managers are working far more than the traditional 40-hour week, according to the results of the 2007 Case Management Advisor Salary Survey.
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As the emphasis has shifted toward the business aspects of health care, some case managers also have shifted their focus from the positive influence they have on patients lives to the impact of case management on the bottom line, Peter Moran, RN, C, BSN, MS, CCM, asserts.
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A multi-pronged approach to improving immunization rates for members, particularly infants and adolescents, has earned recognition for Independence Blue Cross from the Pennsylvania Immunization Coalition (PAIC).
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Discharge planners/case managers are likely to encounter instances in which home care, hospice, and home medical equipment (HME) providers state that they cannot accept patients because they are "unsafe" at home. The use of this term may be confusing to discharge planners/case managers. What is it about patients' homes that make them "unsafe" for them to receive services there? Aren't all patients appropriate for home care?
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Chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries are learning to keep their disease under control through Care Improvement Plus's "Special Needs" Medicare Advantage plan that includes telephonic disease management and face-to-face meetings with a nurse case manager.
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Expectant mothers receive a lot of information over the course of their pregnancy and are sometimes inundated with things to remember. Yet one important message that needs to be stressed is that some may experience postpartum mood disorders that can adversely affect their mental health.
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The great majority of U.S. health care dollars are spent supporting the chronically ill, yet the traditional focus of hospital care is on the "episode of illness," notes Bob Whipple, RNC, CCM, CCS, MHA, a Boston-based senior management consultant with ACS Healthcare Solutions.
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As the baby boomers age, creating a huge influx of Medicare recipients, health care providers are going to be challenged to provide coordinated care for the elderly as they move through the fragmented health care system.
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Millions of dollars and several hundred thousand lives could be saved if more hospitals followed a simple best practice the swallow test for stroke victims, assert researchers in a new study in the journal Neurology.1 Aspiration, note medical experts, in the main pneumonia risk is stroke patients.
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Fuqua Heart Center of Atlanta (GA) at Piedmont Hospital has used telehealth technology to significantly reduce the rate of hospital readmissions for heart failure patients.
