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An internal case management system for hospital employees who are injured on the job has reduced costs and increased return to work for Allina Hospitals and Clinics, based in Minneapolis.
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Hiring a case manager assigned specifically to manage joint replacement patients has paid dividends for St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, PA. The number of total hip and total knee surgeries has increased from 145 in fiscal year 2003 to an expected 260 during this fiscal year.
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Seton Northwest Hospital in Austin, TX, launched nearly 50 new quality initiatives in a single four-month period after deciding to participate in the Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) program, which was launched by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in Princeton, NJ, and the Boston-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has released its 2005 National Patient Safety Goals that will apply specifically to hospitals.
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Arranging care for uninsured and underinsured patients has become more complicated in the past four or five years, says Jennifer DeCamp, MSW, LSW, a social worker at Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago.
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If there is any doubt in the minds of clinical trials administrators and coordinators about the complexity of Medicare and insurer reimbursement in clinical trials, then they need look no further than what happened when the National Academy of Sciences convened a task force to address the subject five years ago: Its main proposals never were adopted.
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One way an institution can promote research and provide support to clinical trials coordinators and investigators is through the formation of a clinical trials support office.