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Grant Funds ED Case Management for At-risk Population
A new grant is helping to provide a path toward stability for patients with mental and behavioral health issues who come to the ED.
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Tips for More Effective Pediatric Discharge Planning
Caring for hospitalized children involves a unique look at creating plans of care and keeping the family calm and informed, experts say.
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Team’s Goal Involved Reducing ED Visits With Case Management Follow-up
Sentara Medical Group in Norfolk, VA, developed a plan to reduce ED utilization and readmissions. The organization’s risk-sharing contracts provided an incentive and extra boost to its efforts.
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Resident-to-Resident Violence Can Lead to Patient Deaths
Aggression among dementia patients is not uncommon, and long-term care facilities should have adequate staff on hand to prevent it from occurring.
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Stay Alert to Signs of Elder Abuse: Think of Falls, Resident Violence
Elder abuse harms more than one million Americans, and case managers should know how to identify it by assessing patients for signs of harm.
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Case Management Leaders: Without You, We’re Nothing, Part 1
This month, we will discuss why case management leaders continue to be so challenged and how they can cope with this ever-growing and demanding job.
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Emergency Providers Play a Pivotal Role in Suicide Prevention
With suicide rates rising, there is a new focus on what frontline providers can do to address the problem.
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Physician Sues Hospital Based on Attempts to Restrict Referrals
A doctor claims in his lawsuit that hospital representatives allegedly called patients and said they had to schedule their surgeries at their facility, even though the doctor had initially recommended another hospital.
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CMS Makes New Push for Electronic Health Records, Telehealth Reimbursement
With its focus on reducing administrative burden and increasing time providing care to patients, CMS recently proposed new paperwork flexibility along with new proposals for virtual care reimbursement.
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UMC Health Opens New Outpatient Observation Unit
UMC Health System in Texas opened a new 34-bed outpatient observation unit to ensure that all patients are receiving appropriate care.