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A Medicare demonstration project at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City provides care coordination to help high-cost, fee-for-service beneficiaries comply with their medical treatment plan and access the community services they need to manage their chronic conditions.
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It's the middle of the night and the patient you admitted last week is having difficulty breathing. Because the nurse has only seen the patient once, and because of the time of day, and because both the patient and the caregiver are not sure what to do, they go to the emergency room.
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True or false: If a male caregiver/family member doesn't show any emotion, then he is coping well with his grief over his loved one's dying.
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Starting next month, hospices will have to report to Medicare all nursing, hospice aide, and social worker visits made for patients. Then a few months later, the new conditions of participation (COPs) will be finalized, which will require greater attention to documentation of services and quality.
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ProHealth Care in Waukesha, WI, is in the process of implementing its "Partnership with Patients Work Plan." Susan M. Kanack, BSN, RN, patient education coordinator, is determining how to make the patient education tools more interactive to fit with the new partnership culture that is being developed.
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Over 20 million people in the United States are diagnosed with diabetes — about 7% of the country's population, according to the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse, a service of the National Institutes of Health. More than 20% of people age 60 or older have diabetes.
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The increased use of computed tomography (CT) scans, while revolutionizing diagnostic radiology, also has brought with it a greater risk of radiation and potential cancer cases, according to a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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The ED at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, IA, has played a central role in the dramatic improvement in hospitalwide compliance with The Joint Commission core measures for community acquired pneumonia (CAP).
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The new ED at Adventist GlenOaks Hospital in Glendale Heights, IL, is a bit untraditional: It has no waiting room.
