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A team approach to quality measures has resulted in a significant drop in ventilator-associated pneumonia for patients in the intensive care unit at Columbus Regional Hospital (IN) and helped the hospital earn the 2007 American Hospital Association-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize.
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It's common for case managers to say, "Oh, I wish I were a consultant." Yet, case managers already have jobs in which they do much of what a consultant does.
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A "near-miss" in which a nurse at a Pennsylvania hospital incorrectly placed a "do not resuscitate" (DNR) wristband on a patient has prompted an Ohio initiative aimed at implementing statewide standardization of colored wristbands.
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Changes in the notifications that hospitals must give Medicare patients about their pending discharge are making discharge planning and careful documentation more important than ever before.
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While her husband was sleeping, after a medical procedure, Elizabeth Hogue, Esq., picked up his chart, which was lying on a table in his hospital room.
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On Monday, July 2, 2007, a Medicare patient in a metropolitan hospital, whom we'll call Mrs. Jones, was notified by her physician that she was to be discharged the next day.
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New rules and guidelines for Medicare Discharge Plan Appeals known officially as the "Important Message from Medicare about Your Rights" (IM) require hospitals to respond to appeals at any time, including weekends and holidays.
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The length of stay for patients being discharged to skilled nursing facilities from St. Joseph's Hospital progressive ventilator care unit dropped by 7.5 days (a 47% reduction) following a Six Sigma pilot project that focused on better ambulation of patients, earlier screening for potential skilled nursing admissions, and timely discharge.
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By educating emergency department supervisors on admissions criteria and community resources, Weatherford Regional Medical Center in Weatherford, TX, has managed to eliminate most social admissions to the hospital and ensure that patients who are admitted meet admission criteria.
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When it comes to the crucial arena of charge capture making sure that providers are paid at the appropriate level for all services rendered it's all about "the right charges and the right resource putting the charges in," says Gala Prabhu, a New York City-based senior manager for Accenture.
