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With the nursing shortage becoming more acute and hospitals offering such perks as sign-on bonuses to attract bedside nurses, case management directors in all arenas are feeling the pinch.
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By partnering with community-based providers throughout the state, Optima Health of Virginia Beach, VA, provides one-on-one intensive case management to high-risk members in its Medicaid disease management programs. Optima Health is a service of Sentara Healthcare.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has named Swedish Medical Center in Seattle the winner of the inaugural Ernest Amory Codman Award in the disease-specific care category, for establishing a comprehensive program that deploys a coordinated team to assure comprehensive, timely, and efficient acute stroke care.
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Anew job can be overwhelming no matter what industry you may choose, but when the new job is in home care, saying that the job is overwhelming may be an understatement.
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Premera Blue Cross new Case Management Collaboration Tool allows case managers to spend more time working with members, helping the company save an estimated $9.6 million a year.
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Since its one of the oldest incentive programs in the country, it might not come as a big surprise that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan was among seven Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Rewarding Results grantees selected to highlight its successes in pay-for-performance programs during a National Press Club briefing in Washington, DC, last November, but the results it has achieved to date are nonetheless impressive.
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Pay-for-Performance (P4P) programs can improve both medical care and quality of life by giving health care providers a financial incentive to seek measurable improvements in the health of their patients, according to a National Press Club briefing in Washington, DC, in November.
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Helping an employee return to work after a diagnosis of depression is similar in some ways to planning return to work after a physical injury, but depression demands a different consideration of limitations, timing, and clinical monitoring than most physical injuries or illnesses.
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Ensuring that medical research is conducted ethically, objectively, and with the trust of the public is getting more difficult, even as the urgency for new research in pharmaceuticals and procedures increases.
