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Report: Train sitters upon hire, and annually
A report by a hospital security association created guidelines for the health and safety of healthcare sitters and patients.
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Patient sitters’ disturbing, firsthand encounters
A recently published study that included numerous focus groups and interviews with healthcare “sitters” documented a number of firsthand accounts of disturbing and violent patient encounters.
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Patient ‘sitters’ at high risk of violence, physical threats
A landmark new study found that 76% of patient sitters experienced at least one event of patient threats and violence in the prior year.
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Central IRB Established for Precision Medicine Initiative Study
The Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program now has a central IRB, and will soon begin a pilot program for enrolling participants.
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Utilization review process calls for assessing patients at every point of entry
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, reviews every patient at every point of access to make sure that they are placed in the correct status.
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Hospitals push back against reimbursement cuts due to Two-Midnight rule
Hospitals across the country have filed lawsuits challenging the decision by CMS to reduce Medicare reimbursement by 0.2% to compensate for the financial effect of the Two-Midnight rule.
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Case management’s role in the new proposed bundled payment program
As we have discussed in prior editions of Case Management Insider, the 2010 Affordable Care Act was a game changer for the healthcare system. The payment reforms it introduced began the process of requiring health systems to communicate across the continuum of care and to reduce and/or eliminate existing silos. This across-the-continuum integration required sharing of accountability for cost and quality of care among providers.
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Ensure that services observation patients receive are necessary and timely
The move by CMS to change the payment methodology for patients receiving observation services means it’s more important than ever for case managers to ensure that patients receive the services they need in a timely manner and that they receive only the care they need while they are in an acute care setting, says Amy M. Smith, RN, MSN, CCM, director of case management at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, a 421-bed academic medical center in Lebanon, NH.
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Ensure that patients meet criteria, documentation supports it
If you’ve got a system for getting patient status right up front and it works, don’t change anything but make sure that the documentation is detailed and complete, advises Linda Sallee, RN, MS, CMAC, ACM, IQCI, director for Huron Healthcare with headquarters in Chicago.
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Who’s in observation? The treatment team needs to know instantly
Patients receiving observation services can fall through the cracks and stay in the hospital longer than necessary if there’s not a way for the treatment team to easily distinguish between them and admitted patients.