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"EMTALA: The Essential Guide to Compliance" from Thomson American Health Consultants, publisher of Emergency Medicine Reports, explains how the changes to EMTALA will affect emergency departments and off-campus clinics.
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Achieving ISO 9001:2000 registration has helped Humana Inc.s Personal Nurse service move quickly to respond to customer feedback and improve services.
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At Humana Inc., specially trained registered nurses called Personal Nurses fill the gap between the companys traditional case management and disease management programs. The nurses, who work from home-based offices, call members identified by a predictive model as likely to need health care interventions in the future, says Trish Whitt, RN, director of clinical product management for the Louisville, KY-based health benefits company.
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At Integrated Home Care, nurse case managers provide hands-on care as well as handling the traditional case management duties, such as evaluating patients, developing a customized plan of care, coordinating with other members of the health care team, and arranging services such as social work or dietitian services.
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As she takes office as the 14th president of the Case Management Society of America, Sherry Aliotta, RN, BSN, CCM, is determined to make sure case managers no longer are the best kept secret in health care.
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In a complex and often confusing health care arena, case managers are an important resource for patients who need access to the right care at the right time. As they provide services for catastrophically ill or injured individuals or those with chronic illnesses, including elderly patients, case managers may be working more frequently with another group of specialty practitioners: life care planners.
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AIDS Alert asked Greg Millett, MPH, a behavioral scientist in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta to discuss the phenomenon and impact on the HIV epidemic of the population of men who have sex with men (MSM) who also have sex with women.
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With a significant percentage of the U.S. population deemed overweight, surgical treatments for obesity have become much more widespread.
