Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to care for an elder. With this philosophy in mind, a community health center in California has partnered with various local organizations to better serve its growing elderly patient population. Partners include food banks and other healthcare organizations involved with the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE).
Population health organizations are focusing on promoting children’s mental and physical health through programs that include families’ input and expand into the community and schools. For example, one healthcare organization is helping a school district start a fitness class for students.
As the issue of staffing needs in the case management world — and the medical field at large — continues, many systems are considering how they can make the most of a difficult situation. While those problems seem to be multiplying during what many are calling “The Great Resignation” or “The Great Resettlement,” leaders like Therese Fitzpatrick, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Brian Pisarsky, RN, MHA, ACM, both senior vice presidents at Kaufman Hall, are addressing the issues strategically.
Clinicians can adopt telemonitoring in everyday practice, using smartphone-based systems to monitor patients with complex chronic conditions, researchers found.
A simple tool for improving patient safety and care handoffs is to use mnemonics. In case management, these can be a tool for remembering specific actions with patients and care transitions.
A nursing team at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio developed a new process for handing off patients from the ED to a telemetry unit that improved patient care and decreased the number of rapid responses for recent transfers.
