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It only took one patients complaint about the inpatient admissions process for a rehab hospital to make changes that have cut the admissions process by two hours per patient and resulted in a net savings.
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While all rehab facilities regularly check process data, the odds are that very few are using the information as effectively as they could with regard to performance improvements.
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Experts say these are the top 10 strategies for reducing slips, trips, falls, and the associated liability.
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Slips, trips, and falls happen in any health care setting, and they can be enormously expensive. The good news is you can sharply reduce those accidents by aggressively employing some rather simple strategies.
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JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute of Edison, NJ, has spent the last several years improving its data collection and staff education to improve its prospective payment system process.
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When administrators at one New Jersey rehab facility noticed a drop in discharge disposition to home, they decided to implement their process improvement strategy to improve this trend.
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When a person acquires a disability and can no longer perform the required tasks of his or her job, vocational rehabilitation is needed to help the individual return to work in another capacity. To facilitate this process, an analysis of transferable skills should be conducted up front.
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As part of its mission to provide peace of mind to members, Premera Blue Cross has developed an innovative case management program to help members with breast and lung cancer understand their disease and make informed choices about their treatment options.
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When Ira Mandel, MD, MPH, was a physician in private practice, he found that group visits were an effective way to cover disease-management issues with his patients with diabetes. As executive medical director for Health Integrated, a Tampa, FL-based provider of care management services, he adapted the group visit concept for telephone-based case managers.
