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The wound care center at Presbyterian Hospital of Plano (TX) takes a holistic approach to patient care by assigning each patient to one nurse who provides hands-on care and case management.
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To comply with the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations new National Patient Safety Goal to reduce the risk of patient harm resulting from falls, your organization must assess and periodically re-assess each patients risk of falling including the potential risk associated with the patients medication regimen and take action to address any identified risks.
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Everyone wants a good outcome from case management services, but not everyone knows what the result should be or how to measure it.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has made sweeping changes to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) that will have a major impact on hospital reimbursement.
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If youre not using your clinical pathways on a regular basis, youre missing an opportunity to facilitate the collection of quality indicators and outcomes information and to affect your patients length of stay.
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Since Childrens National Medical Center in Washington, DC, implemented its diabetes clinical pathway, the hospitals average length of stay for diabetes patients has been significantly lower than the national average, and the 72-hour readmission rate has been less than 1%.
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One of the better known ongoing collaborations in the United States is the Cambridge, MA-based Institute for Healthcare Improvements (IHI) 100,000 Lives Campaign, whose goal is to save 100,000 lives through targeted QI interventions by June 14, 2006.
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Now that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is requiring hospitals to submit data on 10 quality measures to get the full 3.7% inflation-adjusted payment increase, it is more important than ever for case managers to ensure accurate documentation.
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Fifty-six hospitals from 50 states as well as U.S. territories, collaborating to improve surgical care, significantly cut the rate of surgical infections for more than 35,000 patients in a yearlong, nationwide effort sponsored by the Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) and led by Qualis Health, the quality improvement organization (QIO) for Washington, Alaska, and Idaho.
