Hospital Case Management – August 1, 2014
August 1, 2014
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Multidisciplinary rounds have become a must, experts say
Multidisciplinary rounds are a good way to improve throughput, reduce length of stay and readmissions, and improve patient satisfaction, experts say. -
Keeping the team focused during rounds
Multidisciplinary rounds can be an invaluable tool for the hospital team, but only if they are well-organized and focused, experts say. -
Extended-stay rounds can help move patients along
Weekly extended stay rounds help move along patients who have issues and barriers to a timely discharge, experts say. -
Rounds help keep the treatment team on task
Mercy Medical Center in Canton, OH, established daily multidisciplinary rounds at the same time the case management department was being redesigned. -
Transition manager is liaison between teams
At University of Utah Health Care, a transition case manager acts as a liaison between the outpatient care team at community clinics and the inpatient care team. -
Handout summarizes discharge instructions
When patients are being discharged from University of Utah Health Care, they receive a one-page handout that supplements the written discharge instructions and gives patients, in an easy-to-read format, all the information they need when they get home. -
Responding to ACA access problems
Even if the patient standing in front of you obtained coverage on the Health Insurance Exchange Marketplace, the claim still could end up being denied. -
Give access staff a `visual’ for plans
Patient access leaders at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston created a visual tool in 2013 to help staff to determine the correct payer. -
Time Management for Case Managers — So Much Work, So Little Time
It seems that every year case managers are asked to take on more and more roles and functions. Every time a new rule or regulation comes out from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), administrators turn to case management as the group to take the new problem or task on. This translates to more work!