A healthcare provider’s case management-style program produced a 43% reduction in hospital visits and a 24% reduction in ED visits within an 18-month period, according to authors of a new study.
A North Carolina palliative care program employs doctors and other members of a healthcare team to help keep patients out of the hospital through in-home, quality care.
One strategy for resolving workers’ compensation claims as quickly and optimally as possible is to assemble a medical roundtable of professional experts to review claims.
Concerned about the rise in workplace violence across the United States, administrators at St. Louis-based SSM Health decided they needed to look for new solutions to the problem in their network of hospitals. They came up with “purposeful rounding,” a concept based on the idea that if security personnel are more integrated into the care team, there is a better chance of de-escalating behaviors so situations do not turn into major disruptions or violent acts.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has had success with several quick wins through the kind of quality improvement effort that yields meaningful change without requiring a lot of time, money, or effort.
Healthcare providers are increasingly focusing on social determinants of health to improve quality of care and outcomes, and many are finding that data from third parties can be key to the success of those programs.
