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If you are a case manager who also is performing disease management activities, keep in mind that the two activities require distinctly different skill sets, suggests Rufus Howe, RN-C, MN.
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For case managers working in an acute-care environment, advocacy is a fundamental principle of the services they provide. Advocacy may be described simply as wanting, getting, and doing what is in the best interest of the patient and the family. In practice, however, case managers find themselves acting as advocates not only for the patient and family but for the hospital and provider of care as well.
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Two years after needle safety became a mandate nationwide, hospitals face what may be their greatest challenge: keeping the momentum going.
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Recommendations made by President George Bush during his recent State of the Union address didnt exactly follow those from two recent studies, including one released by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) on the uninsured.
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A community health care program that started in Memphis, TN, 16 years ago to serve the working poor has become a model for efforts
in many other places around the country. Some 15 clones of the Church Health Center have started in several states, and the center now holds monthly workshops to teach representatives from other communities how to replicate the program.
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Malpractice insurance premiums in states that cap awards are 17.1% lower than in states that dont, according to a study by Kenneth Thorpe, health policy professor at Emory University in Atlanta.
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The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court last fall to let stand an appeals court ruling that the federal government may not investigate, threaten, or punish doctors who recommend marijuana as a medical treatment for their patients has lifted a cloud that was over the heads of many people, says Bruce Mirken, communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) in Washington, DC.
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A dramatic overhaul of the emergency department (ED) process at Paradise Valley Hospital in National City, CA, began with a single question from the director of emergency medicine.
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Creating the most efficient staffing arrangement possible along with fostering effective working relationships with those outside the access department was integral to the development of a financially successful patient access department, says Patti Daniel, MS, CCM, LPC, LMSW/AP.
