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Patient Reassessments Help Hospital Reach Top Goal of Patient Safety
A children’s hospital targeted seven-day readmissions, successfully reducing the rate after instituting a patient safety case management program.
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Health Systems Should Stay on Top of Longitudinal Care Curve
Payers are moving toward longitudinal or value-based care across the care continuum, but health systems are lagging in building an infrastructure for this newer model.
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Sarasota Memorial Hospital Implements Sweeping Initiative, Raising HCAHPS Scores
Among patients aged 80 years and older, the hospital was achieving average patient satisfaction in only two of 10 measures.
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Policies Can Set Boundaries, Ensure Ethical Discharges
Ethicists at University Health Network’s Toronto Rehabilitation Institute have seen multiple recent cases involving hospital discharges. All involved patients who wished to return home despite known safety risks and clinicians who were uncomfortable discharging the patient to a setting they viewed as unsafe.
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Crisis Prevention Is Major Focus for Community Case Managers
Crises occur because of clients’ poverty, mental health challenges, past trauma, homelessness, and other issues. And it is up to case managers to help clients maintain their health and avoid problems.
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Interdisciplinary Care Rounds: A Key Strategy for Improving Case Management Outcomes, Part Two
This month will discuss the elements of a walking rounds format and the role that the interdisciplinary team members play in the process.
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Children’s Hospital Develops Tool to Improve Throughput
Changes in regulatory and reimbursement factors are making it more likely that children’s hospitals will follow in the footsteps of health systems and focus on improving patient throughput and reducing readmissions.
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Pediatric Hospitals Develop Best Practices to Avoid Readmissions
A group of children’s hospitals has taken the bundles of care approach, applying a bundle of their best practices to see how these impact outcomes.
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Well-Regarded Business Strategies Can Be Used in Case Management
Payers, including the federal government, are beginning to recognize that healthcare providers can succeed with keeping patients healthy only to the extent that patients are willing collaborators in their own care.
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Value-Based Care Requires Support for At-Risk Populations
Case managers should learn how to better work with patients most vulnerable to hospitalization and build relationships with them, experts say.