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The latest requirements from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) call for more detailed evaluation of processes than ever before, causing one health care system to look to industry for the tools needed to respond appropriately.
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The Disease-Specific Care (DSC) certification offered by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is designed to evaluate disease management and chronic care services provided by hospitals, health plans, disease management service companies, and other care delivery settings.
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With a care coordination program in place that has dramatically reduced acute care and emergency department (ED) utilization by the chronic frail elderly while enhancing patients quality of life, Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region (SHSSR) was looking for a way to take the program to yet a higher level, says Jan Van der Mei, RN, care management director.
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The best way for hospital case managers to provide patient-centric care is to get themselves in a position to influence the physicians who are treating their patients, asserts Stefani Daniels, RN, MSNA, managing partner of PHOENIX Medical Management Inc., a Pompano Beach, FL-based consulting firm.
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A pre-discharge order form and an 11 a.m. target time for discharging patients are among the initiatives the care management teams at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston have created to help move patients through the continuum of care more efficiently. The 596-bed tertiary care center serves as a resource for the entire state of South Carolina.
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Two of the nations leading nursing organizations, the Atlanta-based American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) and the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE), a subsidiary of the American Hospital Association, have unveiled their policy platforms.
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An eight-hour course on leadership will be presented in Spanish at the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition, sponsored by the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA).
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The results of the latest Healthcare@Work survey by AON Consulting and the American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration (ASHRA), both located in Chicago, finds U.S. health care employees slightly less committed to their organizations in 2003 than they were in 2002. Most of the drop in the surveys Workforce Commitment Index (WCI), which fell from 91.5 to 91.0, was due to a drop in the score for executive leadership and manager/department head groups.
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Integrating acupuncture with conventional physical therapy and work hardening has been both a medical and financial success for Good Samaritan Occupational Health Services in Avon, MA, according to its medical director, Robert P. Naparstek, MD. The on-site acupuncture program was initiated on January 2000.
