Case Management Advisor – April 1, 2003
April 1, 2003
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Care management for seniors likely to tax health care system
Those baby boomers are doing it again. After dominating the job market, revolutionizing the music and entertainment scene, and setting American culture on its ear for all those years, theyre going to create major challenges to the health care market as they age. -
Helping elderly deal with costs of long-term care
When elderly people need long-term care for themselves or their loved ones, they often experience sticker shock when they find out the cost. -
Involve patient, family in care plan for elderly
By the time people come to case managers for geriatric care management, they already have dealt with the system and have a lot of frustrations and misinformation. -
Help family with options for elderly member
When an elderly person can no longer live at home without assistance, it helps if the family can look at all the pros and cons of every scenario, Elizabeth Bodie Gross, FNP, MBA, CCM suggests. -
Social workers facilitate discharge process
Hospital visits by social case management consultants have paid off for Horizon/Mercy of Trenton, NJ, the states largest managed care organization serving the publicly insured. -
Disease management pays off for insurer
A visit from a Horizon/Mercy social worker often is the only visit that many of the health plan members get while theyre in the hospital. -
DM nurses, CMs provide seamless care
Disease management is a fluid process that often involves transitioning patients from the disease management team to case management for more intensive interventions, says Pam Mays, MPH, BSRN, RN, assistant vice president for care management of CIGNA Health Care. -
Get buy-in from the entire organization beforehand
For a disease management program to be successful, everyone in your organization must be committed to it and willing to invest the considerable money and other resources it will take to make the program a success, Pam Mays, MPH, BSRN, RN, says. -
Determine your allegiance prior to accepting job
As a case manager, you are well accustomed to working in a number of roles. However, those roles can become complex when your patient advocate role does not mesh with the obligations you have to your employer. -
Coalition develops common vision plan
Case management stands at a crossroad and needs a common vision plan that unites case managers across the broad health care spectrum, a group of case management leaders have concluded. -
Reports From the Field: AHRQ puts quality measure on the web
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has launched an Internet-based national quality measures clearinghouse containing current evidenced-based quality measures and measure sets to evaluate and improve the quality of health care. -
Reports From the Field: Consent form language difficult to understand
The average consent form for clinical trial volunteers is written at the 10th-grade reading level, while an estimated one in two American adults reads at or below an eighth-grade level, a new study has concluded. -
Reports From the Field: Common cold causes asthma emergencies
For people with asthma, the viral infections that cause the common cold are a major cause of health emergencies, including hospitalizations, a study at the University of Iowa Health Care has concluded. -
Reports From the Field: Pap smears not necessary for some women
The U. S. Preventive Service Task Force has concluded that women older than 65 who have always had regular normal Pap smears may not benefit from continued routine screenings.