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A community case management program for clients with complex conditions has significantly reduced emergency department (ED) visits and inpatient admissions at Poudre Valley Hospital, resulting in a savings of nearly $1.4 million for a sampling of clients in just six months for the Fort Collins, CO, health system.
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When an elderly woman continued to have elevated blood pressure after her physician prescribed a medication regimen, the doctor assumed the patient was confused and not taking her medication properly.
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A new emergency department (ED) triage system at Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, FL, decreased the time that elapses between when patients arrive and when they are treated by 33%, slashed the number of patients who left without treatment by 50%, and cut 20 minutes off the total turnaround time from when patients arrive at the ED and when they are discharged or admitted.
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Hospitals still need to be vigilant about issuing the Important Message from Medicare (IM), notifying Medicare patients of their right to appeal their discharge, their financial responsibilities, and how to appeal their discharge, warns Jackie Birmingham, RN, MS, CMAC.
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One hundred percent of scheduled cases authorized that is the goal set by Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital's financial access unit.
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Having heart failure advocates work with discharged patients to help them self-manage their care cut the rate of readmissions within 30 days from about 20% to 5%-6% at six hospitals that are part of the Catholic Healthcare Partners health care system.
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Patients who have a clear understanding of their after-hospital care instructions are 30% less likely to be readmitted or visit the emergency department (ED) than patients who don't have that knowledge, according to a study at Boston University Medical Center.
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A scourge of hospitals for decades, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) may finally be on the run, and it's moving in the right direction: from the bedside to the "C-suite." In initiatives that speak to both quality and cost-savings, hospital CEOs are putting their considerable clout behind infection prevention efforts against the most highly publicized health care-associated infection (HAI).
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Infection prevention efforts appear to be making a dramatic difference in hospital intensive care units, which are reporting declining rates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) central line-associated bloodstream infections (BSIs), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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As recurrent hepatitis outbreaks continue in ambulatory care nationally, there are increasing calls for more oversight and training for health care workers in those settings.
