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Kettering Medical Center has found a solution to the challenges case managers face when they have to manage the daily care of patients, plan for discharge, work with insurance companies, and ensure that the hospital is meeting its targets for quality initiatives.
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If you want to recruit qualified case managers and retain the ones you have, you have to create the kind of environment in which caring nurses want to work.
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National Case Management Week, Oct. 8-14, 2006, is a great opportunity to make sure that the case managers on your staff feel appreciated and that their contributions are recognized by the entire hospital.
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Coordinating care for complex patients is knowledge work that often requires deep concentration. And deep concentration requires periods of uninterrupted time.
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Do you identify patients at risk for suicide? Do you give patients a list of their medications? And do you encourage patients to report safety risks?
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Before Mease (FL) Dunedin Hospital began a Six Sigma project to improve patient discharge, only 45% of patients whose discharge orders were issued by noon were being discharged by 1 p.m.
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When traumatically injured patients are admitted to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, the only Level 1 Trauma Center in New Hampshire, their care is coordinated from arrival in the emergency department (ED) through discharge.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed sweeping changes to the payment structure for hospitals, including the first significant revision of the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) since it was implemented in 1983.
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In the first year after reorganizing the case management department, Lake Granbury (TX) Medical Center, a 59-bed facility, substantially increased reimbursement by improving documentation and saved $35,000 by putting case managers in charge of getting Medicaid forms signed, rather than relying on an outside vendor.
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Voluntary annual influenza immunization programs that use educational efforts and other incentives to vaccinate health care workers have been an abject failure, a leading proponent of mandatory flu shots said recently in Tampa at the annual conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).
