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Plaintiffs' attorneys soon may use the discharge of homeless patients to push the boundaries of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)...
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Getting your staff ready for an unannounced survey by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) is different from the old way of preparing tons of charts and notebooks for a formal presentation...
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has issued a special warning to double-check how tubes and catheters are connected to patients...
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Insurance records suggest that wrong-site surgery is extremely rare and major injury from it even rarer, according to a study supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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In 1984, a woman received dental implants to replace her temporomandibular joints, connecting the jaw to the skull.
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When patients at hospitals in Seton Healthcare Network are ready for discharge and don't have funding for post-discharge services, the hospital may pay nursing homes to provide care until their Medicaid eligibility is determined or place patients in assisted living facilities temporarily until they fully recover.
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A multipronged approach has helped the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics find funding for indigent patients, cut the length of stay for patients who are medically able to be discharged, and reduced the number of nonemergent visits to the emergency department (ED).
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For the last two years, the initiative saved the hospital $500,000 annually in decreased utilization and identifying funding sources for the patients, according to Pat Beal, LCSW, outpatient case management supervisor for Seton Healthcare network and Seton Northwest operations manager.
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Hospital discharge must be viewed as a process rather than an event â which should start as early as possible, i.e., at the point of admission if not before. Case managers should identify the patients who are likely to need an actively managed hospital stay and post-hospital health and social care services.
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As surgery centers begin to analyze how a new reimbursement system, if passed, would affect their income and bottom line, they are finding that future changes will be a mixed bag.
