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Community Efforts Cut Readmissions for Low-income, Hispanic Patients
When Dependable Home Health Services in Nogales, AZ, began an initiative to reduce its readmission rate, 23% of patients served by the home health agency were readmitted to the hospital within 30 days. Within a year, the readmission rate was reduced to 19%.
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Questions About Your Patients’ Culture? Look For Answers Here
Information that case managers can use to find out more about their patients is just a click away
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Hospital Uses Telehealth to Monitor At-risk Patients On the Navajo Reservation
Faced with the need to provide follow-up care for its Native American patients, many of whom lack electricity or running water, the telehealth department at Northern Arizona Healthcare’s Flagstaff Medical Center developed a remote patient monitoring program and worked with the care management staff to implement the program.
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Hospital Works to Make Native American Patients Feel Comfortable
Flagstaff Medical Center, part of Northern Arizona Healthcare System, created a program to accommodate the beliefs and practices of their Native American patients, which make up about 40% of the hospital’s patient population.
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Whenever Possible, Combine Western and Traditional Medicine
When a patient’s cultural practices, such as traditional healing, are incorporated into the treatment plan, it can go a long way toward ensuring that patients follow the plan of care.
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Base Your Plan of Care On the Individual’s Beliefs and Practices
If case managers want their discharge plans to succeed, they should take the time to really understand their patients.
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Cultural Competency Is Essential in an Increasingly Diverse Society
If case managers don’t learn about their patients’ cultural beliefs and practices and incorporate them into the plan of care, their efforts to develop a trusting relationship with their patients and create a successful discharge plan may be in vain.
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Parkinson’s Disease and Stroke: Is There a Link?
Parkinson’s disease and stroke may be linked, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference in Houston.
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CDC: Heroin Leads the Way in Drug Overdose Deaths
Deaths from the illegal opioid tripled over five years.
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Exercise After Stroke Improves Cognitive Function
Physical activity important for improving quality of life in stroke rehabilitation.