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Question: Does the Joint Commissions standard on spiritual assessment apply only to behavioral health or to all health care settings? What are we expected to do in making this spiritual assessment?
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Clinical pathways often are hailed as a premier quality improvement tool, but they also are seen as pie-in-the-sky solutions because they dont do any good if clinicians dont actually use them after all the fanfare of introducing them.
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A root-cause analysis points to a lack of redundancy as the critical failure that allowed organs to be transplanted into a patient with the wrong blood type, according to information from Duke University in Durham, NC, the site of a recent notorious sentinel event.
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Experts will share their proven ideas for successful case management at the 8th Annual Hospital Case Management Conference, Delivering on the Promise of Case Management: Making an Impact in a Challenging Health Care Environment, to be held April 27-29, 2003, in Atlanta.
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Obtaining prescription drugs for patients who cant afford them has been a problem for Athens (GA) Regional Medical Center for the 18 years that Beverly A. Baker, CRC, CCM, has been with the hospital, she says.
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W.A. Foote Memorial Hospital in Jackson, MI, has dramatically increased the bang for its prescription drug buck by forming a medication assistance program (MAP) in conjunction with several community agencies, says Beth A. Smith, RN, MSN, MBA, director of case management.
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A social work professional at a 100-bed hospital in Indiana is getting free medications for patients who cant afford them with a program she says could be a model for health care organizations across the country.
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Case managers frequently are involved in projects intended to identify optimal uses for health care resources. There are clear limits to what types of health care services can be provided, and this means that clinicians have to make choices about diagnostic tests and treatments.