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Faced with a growing number of uninsured patients and rapidly escalating costs for treating them, Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, TX, created a case management program for the uninsured that has resulted in shorter lengths of stays (LOS), fewer readmissions, and less utilization of the emergency department (ED) by patients being managed.
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Providing medical care for the uninsured should be a community initiative and not just the responsibility of hospitals that provide indigent care, asserts Donna Zazworsky, MS, RN, CCM, FAAN, director of community and outreach for St. Elizabeth of Hungary Clinic in Tucson, AZ.
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Since the implementation of a state-of-the-art electronic patient record system, case managers at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare have more time to visit with patients and their families, enabling them to better prepare the patient for going home.
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The RN case manager will; The social worker will; As a team, the case manager and social worker will; Goals of the team are to.
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Fourteen(14) tips on how to improve account management.
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A new registration report card at Childrens Health Care of Atlanta provides access managers with key information on the performance of individual employees in a convenient, easy-to-read format.
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Good outcomes with vasa previa depend primarily on prenatal diagnosis and cesarean delivery at 35 weeks of gestation or earlier should rupture of membranes, labor, or significant bleeding occur.
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These data support the hypothesis that favorable survival that is associated with optimal debulking of advanced ovarian cancers is due to, at least in part, the underlying biologic characteristics of these cancers.
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The canceled estrogen-progestin arm of the Womens Health Initiative reported an increase in ovarian cancer that was not statistically significant, prompting the authors to say: The possibility of an increased risk of ovarian cancer incidence and mortality remains worrisome and needs confirmation.