Patient Education Management Archives – January 1, 2010

January 1, 2010

• Keep community outreach education organized with health calendar

  Last September, staff in the public education office at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston focused their educational outreach efforts on preventing prostate cancer.

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• Observance dates tailored to in-house activities

  Education awareness events aren't just for community outreach at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The patient education office uses the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Observance Calendar to plan events for patients and staff in-house.

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• Program focuses on proactive interventions

  At ProHealth Care in Waukesha, WI, community outreach is more than the hosting of an educational event from time to time.

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• Poor economy could work in favor of patient education

  The state of the economy is impacting every industry, and health care is not immune, say the patient education managers we interviewed about the results of the 2009 Patient Education Management Salary Survey.

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• Patient-centric care decreases hospitalizations

  A combination of face-to-face and telephonic case management has resulted in high patient satisfaction ratings and a significant decrease in health care utilization for patients with complex medical needs.

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