Goals for a community-based case management program
Goals for a community-based case management program
- Increase utilization of preventative services.
- Decrease the number of hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits to less than two combined hospitalizations and ED visits yearly.
- Decrease inappropriate utilization of health care services.
- Identify patients who are at risk for long lengths of stay, high cost of utilization, difficulty in placement, and vulnerable for readmission.
- Permit shared access of assessment and administrative information among authorized caregivers in the hospital, ED, nursing home, physician’s office, home health agency, etc.
- Evaluate medical treatment plans according to current best practices and evidence-based guidelines with complete access to the Internet’s store of research and health care information for reference and patient/family education purposes.
- Improve Medicare margins by reducing length of stay and direct patient costs per inpatient day.
- Improve the quality of life for the patients by helping them and their providers plan and monitor the significant transitions from inpatient to outpatient and home health settings.
- Improving communications to all primary stakeholders caring for case managed patients.
Source: Tracy Carver, Director of Client Services, Canopy.com, Chapel Hill, NC. Web site: www.CanopyCentral.com.
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