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New Tool Helps Administrators Evaluate Patients’ Need for Care Coordination
Researchers developed a new tool, the Special Intensity Score, that healthcare administrators can use to determine a patient’s need for care coordination across multiple specialist doctors. It also helps with evaluation of care coordination practices.
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Half of Hospitals and Skilled Nursing Facilities Use Care Integration Activities, Study Shows
A major point of vulnerability at skilled nursing facilities is the high rate of readmission caused by errors and gaps in care — usually involving medication issues, according to the results of a recent study.
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Some Case Management Conflicts Can Be Tricky
There are times when best practices and calming techniques might not work in resolving conflicts involving case managers. These situations are trickier and more complex because of behavioral issues or the people involved. When this occurs, case management leaders need to be more proactive and take charge of the situation.
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Learn Best Practices for Conflict Management
One of the most important tactics case management leaders can learn and teach their staff is how to resolve interpersonal conflicts. During the COVID-19 pandemic, case managers and other healthcare professionals have seen a rise in stress and tension at work. This can lead to more conflicts between employees and managers.
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Include Staff Mental Health in Disaster Plan
Mental health needs increase following a disaster. This is true of healthcare professionals as well as disaster victims. Disasters can increase burnout and stress in healthcare providers.
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Ways Case Managers Can Improve Disaster Planning
Effective disaster planning requires improved annual preparedness training, better focus on patient transition, more emphasis on rehabilitation after discharge, strengthened teams, and transitions of care contingencies.
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Hospitals and Case Managers Need More — and Better — Disaster Planning
The COVID-19 pandemic and other recent crises have shown the need for improved disaster planning. Disaster plans should be clear, well-defined, and ready to implement before a crisis even strikes. This includes preparation for surge, triage, and crisis standards of care as well as skills training for case managers and other health professionals. -
ID Groups Call for Mandatory COVID Vaccination of Healthcare Workers
The nation’s leading infectious disease groups have issued a joint paper recommending COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment for healthcare workers, with limited exemptions.
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Annual Costs of MDRO Infections: $5 Billion
With healthcare systems across the nation focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, other priorities have largely gone by the wayside, including the formidable and longstanding problem of multidrug-resistant organisms.
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Major Medical Groups Call for OSHA to Delay COVID-19 Regulation
Many of the nation’s leading medical groups are calling for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to delay its Emergency Temporary Standard on COVID-19 by at least six months and to extend the comment period.