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Suppose you're a hospital case manager under pressure to move patients to another level of care and free up beds for patients boarding in the emergency department. What do you do if you think a patient really needs to stay in acute care?
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Paid caregivers make it possible for seniors to remain living in their homes.
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What content should go on electronic readers, such as iPads and Nooks, purchased for use in community health libraries and facility-based resource centers?
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When you're troubled by an ethical dilemma, don't go it alone. Reach out to your peers and your professional organizations for help, the experts say.
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Hospitals are working more proactively in forging relationships with the next-level-of-care providers, the experts say.
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Proposed rules for the creation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) will require participating organizations to provide primary care to 5,000 or more patients and to meet 65 quality standards.
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The Department of Health and Human Services'(HHS) recently published proposed rule (42 CFR 425) for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) could result in some positive changes for the health care industry, but there are a few problems that should be corrected, an expert says.
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AmeriHealth Mercy's care coordinator, Lynne Major MSW, CCM, touches base with every member who comes into the physician office where she works, encourages them to call her if they have questions and spending extra time with those who have complex needs.
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An innovative care coordination pilot project jointly developed by AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies' Keystone Mercy Health Plan based in Philadelphia, PA, and providers affiliated with the Mercy Health System, also based in Philadelphia, PA, resulted in decreased costs, reduced hospital admissions, and a decrease in inpatient days for members in the health plan's Medicaid managed care plan.
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Hip fractures are among the most debilitating and expensive diagnoses to treat, but hospitals can significantly improve outcomes and lower costs if they move hip-fracture patients into surgery quickly, explains Anthony Balsamo, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and head of the Geriatric Fracture Care Program (GFCP) at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
