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Critical Path Network: Checkoffs play key role in SICU improvement

A patient daily goals checkoff form used twice daily during rounds has helped the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) team at Hartford (CT) Hospital achieve a 25% drop in its mortality rate, while cutting lengths of stay and ventilator days.

Critical Path Network: Proper patient ID focus of hospital initiative

With patient safety a heightened imperative from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and facing its own duplicate medical record problem, Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, MO, launched an initiative aimed at ensuring proper patient identification.

Access Management Quarterly: ‘Just the facts’ not enough if patient asks about bill

Is it true that we can violate the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) by not encouraging a patient to stay for treatment when he wants to leave?

2003 Salary Survey Results: How do your salary and benefits stack up against your case management peers’?

Hospital Case Managements annual salary survey was mailed to readers along with the April 2003 issue. Questionnaires, response forms, and postage-paid envelopes were inserted into that newsletter.

2003 Salary Survey Results: Creativity helps with CM recruitment, retention

Each year, Covenant Health System in Knoxville, TN, has a Case Management University for nurses in the system who are interested in becoming case managers.

Critical Path Network: Stroke centers can cut LOS, boost outcomes

Stroke centers with specialized stroke teams have the potential to improve outcomes and decrease lengths of stay (LOS) for facilities that previously have relied solely on pre-hospital and emergency department (ED) infrastructure.

Ambulatory Care Quarterly: Research shows ED case management saves dollars

Researchers are set to release new data confirming the benefits of a case management strategy heralded three years ago as a way to decrease the cost of treating repeat patients in the emergency department (ED).

Hospital’s SNF placement initiative improves efficiency, speeds discharge

Before Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center started an initiative to improve the transition of patients to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), about 12% of the Lebanon, NH, facilitys patient days were patients waiting for SNF placement.

Close relationship with SNFs benefits both parties

When Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, undertook an initiative to improve the efficiency of nursing homes admissions, the task force looked at ways to improve communication and collaboration with local skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).

Documentation initiative pays off for hospitals

Since Hurley Medical Center in Flint, MI, began a comprehensive program to improve documentation, reimbursement has improved and the hospitals severity of illness and risk of mortality data have come in line with benchmark data.