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When NorthEast Medical Center in Concord, NC, began an initiative to improve compliance with clinical quality indicators in 2003, compliance for the congestive heart failure and pneumonia clinical indicators was at 84%. In the most recent quarter, the hospital met those indicators 96% of the time.
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Examining how communities in the United States coped with the 1918 flu pandemic could help today's public health planners in their preparations for the next flu pandemic, according to the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a solicitation to implement a health promotion and disease prevention program through the Medicare Senior Risk Reduction Demonstration. The program enhances CMS' focus on prevention of chronic disease in the Medicare population.
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Salaries for case managers are increasing, but the vast majority of case managers are working far more than the traditional 40-hour week, according to respondents to the 2006 Hospital Case Management Salary Survey.
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Case managers should be part of the team that ensures hospitals meet the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' medication reconciliation requirements, says Patrice Spath, RHIT, health care quality consultant with Brown-Spath & Associates in Forest Grove, OR.
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At El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, CA, medication reconciliation is an essential part of the admissions process that needs to continue at discharge or transfer of care, reports Michael Fitzgerald, MS, RN, CS, clinical nurse specialist, who chairs the hospital's medication reconciliation committee.
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As a hospital case manager, you can have an important role in your hospital's efforts to prevent medication errors, which harm at least 1.5 million people every year at a conservatively estimated cost of $3.5 billion, according to a report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies.
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Wireless laptops at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City have dramatically increased the efficiency and effectiveness of the case managers, improved throughput, and enabled them to monitor patients who are readmitted frequently.
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A centralized admissions area (CAA) at Elmhurst (IL) Memorial Healthcare handles much of the workups and assessments that unit nurses typically do, minimizing treatment delays and enhancing patient throughput.
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If youre not tracking outcomes that show the value of case management, youre missing a chance to show your hospitals administration how much case managers can improve patient care and have a positive impact on the hospitals bottom line.
