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Patients discharged from an acute care hospital to an acute rehabilitation facility are more likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days if they score poorly on the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) test, which measures a persons ability to perform activities of daily living, according to a study at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
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Carondelet Health Network and the Pima Council on Aging have partnered to provide follow-up care coordination for at-risk patients who are being discharged from the hospital.
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Why do most workers call in sick?
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CDC issues guidelines for all hospitals
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Ebola does not spread by the airborne route, but recently issued infection control recommendations recommend that health care workers don at the least N95 respirators if performing a procedure that may generate aerosols with the patients blood or body fluids.
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Surveillance also tracks other injuries
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The two recently discharged Ebola patients treated at Emory Hospital in Atlanta were the source of much misinformation and fear upon admission, with many people questioning the wisdom of bringing the deadly virus into the country. In response, Susan Mitchell Grant, RN and chief nurse at Emory wrote a thoughtful op-ed piece for the Washington Post.
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Most occupational health nurses learn about respiratory protection on the job.
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As part of its efforts to decrease readmissions, OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, IL, developed a hospitalwide initiative to create safe transitions.
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The CMS efficiency measure has once again raised the issues of length of stay management and cost reduction. These have always been a component of the role of the hospital-based case manager. In todays best practice models, these interventions must be correlated with the roles of coordination and facilitation of care, discharge planning and utilization management. The case managers roles and functions, as well as staffing ratios, must be designed in such a way as to allow for this integration of roles. Be sure that your department is focusing on how to embed this important function in your everyday practice!
