Case Management Advisor – February 1, 2015
February 1, 2015
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Case Management, Advocacy and the Affordable Care Act
With the surge in the number of newly insured under the Affordable Care Act, case managers increasingly need to serve as patient advocates.
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Patient Engagement is Goal for Case Managers
Case managers can help patients with health behavior changes by combining evidence-based health coaching and motivational interviewing.
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Examples of EBHC And MI in practice
The traditional provider-patient exchange can result in misunderstanding and a patient’s incomplete knowledge of what he or she needs to do to maintain better health, one expert says.
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Actively engage patients following these simple tips
Evidence-based health coaching (EBHC), a novel approach to engaging patients, combined with motivational interviewing can produce lasting change because it delves into the reasons behind patients’ resistance, one expert says.
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New model significantly reduces boarding of psychiatric patients
No problem has proven more vexing to ED leaders in recent years than the issue of boarding related to patients with mental health concerns. It is not unusual for these patients to be held in the ED for hours, if not days, before a psychiatric bed is found. This has the effect of running up the healthcare tab while bogging down throughput, and it leaves virtually no one satisfied.
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Progress lags on needlestick prevention
Needlestick injuries remain stubbornly common, despite a long-standing federal law and worker safety regulations requiring an annual review of safety devices. Forging a path to improvement requires collaboration with hospital purchasing and quality improvement, says the coordinator of the nation’s most comprehensive needlestick surveillance system.