Case Management Advisor – January 1, 2017
January 1, 2017
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The ACA is Poised for Chopping Block — What Happens to Case Management?
Case Management Advisor asked healthcare and case management experts to predict how a rescinded or partially repealed ACA might affect the current trend toward population health, care coordination, and enhanced need for case management.
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Lobbying Congress for Case Management in New Era
When case management organizations and advocates descend on Capitol Hill in 2017, they’ll have to assume the groundwork they’ve laid for eight years has been excavated. Years of careful education about case management, established in one-on-one meetings with people who affect healthcare policy, will have been largely erased.
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Program Targets Frail Seniors, Offering Help with Independence
A case management program that targets frail seniors with a combined case management and technological tool solution produced significant cost savings in a pilot study.
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Study: ACA Resulted in Fewer Uninsured People in EDs
A new study of patients in Illinois found that fewer uninsured people visited the ED after implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
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Patient ID a Top Source of Error; Newborns High Risk
Wrong-patient errors linked to identification are significant and may correlate with increasing patient volume and frequent handoffs among providers, plus increased data sharing, research indicates.
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Tell Staff How Safety Reports Make a Difference
Hospital staff will report safety concerns more when they are informed of how their previous reports helped improve patient safety, according to a recent report from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.
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Culture Most Important in Preventing Falls with Elderly
The organization’s culture is the factor most determining the liability risk of a facility or community serving the elderly, according to a recent report from CNA Financial Corporation in Chicago.