Hospital Case Management – July 1, 2005
July 1, 2005
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Avoid overload: Assign cases based on workload, model, and role functions
Case management directors struggle daily with how best to assign caseloads to their staff, but its not enough to rely on benchmarks of caseload statistics. Many other factors can affect how many patients a case manager can manage adequately, experts say. -
Internet resources help you study for CCM exam
Commissioners with the Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCMC) frequently are asked in many forums, such as conferences, how applicants can study and prepare for the Certified Case Manager (CCM) certification exam. -
Critical Path Netowrk: Proactive case management initiatives help cut LOS
When the case management department at University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics implemented a series of initiatives to improve the throughput of patients, the average length of stay for surgical patients dropped from 7.9 days to 4.6 days and overall length of stay dropped from 6.3 days to 5.1 days including all the outliers. -
Critical Path Netowrk: Work as a team to meet needs of all your patients
Hospital case management should be a team approach, with everyone on the team looking at what needs to be done for the patients and making sure it gets done, says Judith Martin, RN, CCM, director of medical management for Regional Medical Center, a division of Trover Foundation, a nonprofit health care organization in Madisonville, KY. -
Discharge Planning Advisor: Project examines why patients don’t take meds
A pilot project under way at Arnot Ogden Medical Center in Elmira, NY, is assessing how likely patients are to adhere to their prescribed medication regimen, with the ultimate goal of helping them to become more compliant, says Tina Davis, RN, MS, CNS, senior director of continuum of care. -
Discharge Planning Advisor: Solutions often found in existing technology
Collaboration between key hospital departments is crucial to making sure discharge planning starts at the earliest possible point in the patient encounter, and the latest advances in technology certainly can facilitate the necessary interdepartmental communication. -
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