Case Management Advisor
RSSArticles
-
HHS Secretary Holds Opioid Epidemic Meeting
In response to President Donald Trump’s call to action on the opioid crisis, Health and Human Services (HHS) Acting Secretary Eric D. Hargan held a meeting on Dec. 12, 2017, with healthcare leaders to address the growing opioid epidemic.
-
Site Infections Reduced for Post-op Cesarean Section Patients
Infection levels in mothers who had undergone cesarean sections were reduced at a California hospital with a remarkably simple fix: providing the right size bandage so too-large ones didn’t have to be cut by hand.
-
Medical Home Within ED Serves Needs of Sparsely Populated Region
There is ample evidence suggesting new solutions are needed in the way healthcare is delivered in rural America. Multiple factors likely play a role, including the fact that there is a significant shortage of both emergency and primary care providers in rural areas.
-
Federal Report Calls for Action to Improve Healthcare Access for Mentally Ill
The Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee released a report to Congress on Dec. 13, 2017, titled, “The Way Forward: Federal Action for a System That Works for All People Living with SMI and SED and Their Families and Caregivers.”
-
Using Care Coordination Services, a Health Network Saves CMS More Than $73 Million
Since its first performance year in 2014, one Texas accountable care network has maintained a 95% or better quality score and saved CMS more than $73 million.
-
Physician-owned Medical Group Reduces Readmission Rate to 6%
A new population health management program in Ohio is expanding to transform care for Medicare Advantage patients. It’s building on its success with providing a toolbox of services to patients, centered around primary care.
-
Housing Is Critical to Healthcare Plan Success
Case management often focuses on patients’ social determinants of health as a part of the bigger health picture. Now, there’s a small but growing number of organizations that are making one social determinant — housing — an integral part of all healthcare coordination.
-
Evidence That Working ‘Bare Below the Elbows’ Protects Patients
A study using two mannequins and a surrogate DNA marker for Clostridium difficile showed that workers in long sleeves were more likely to contaminate a subsequent patient than workers wearing short sleeves.
-
Antibiotic Stewardship Requires Hospitalwide Commitment
Hospitals can play an important role in addressing one of the most urgent public health problems today: the misuse and overuse of antimicrobials. An effective antibiotic stewardship program requires significant commitment from top executive levels down to the bedside.
-
Community Finds Unique Ways to Bring Case Management to the Frontier
A care coordination program that uses care facilitators has helped to improve care coordination and reduce ED use among a frontier, or very rural, population.