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Elder care is growing issue in case management
As the baby boomers age, case managers will need to learn more about how this large senior citizen demographic shift will affect healthcare management and services, including end-of-life services.
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How incentives, case management improve outcomes in diabetic patients
The Triad HealthCare Network’s wellness program relies on incentives and case management to improve outcomes in reducing hospitalizations, emergency room visits, and costs for a large health system payer’s members.
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Case management program produces dramatic results
A case management program for a large health system has produced dramatically improved healthcare and cost savings results.
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Hospital Case Management 2015 Index
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Interdisciplinary Walking Rounds: A Key Strategy for Improving Case Management Outcomes – Part 1
This month we are going to focus on interdisciplinary rounds — more specifically, walking or bedside rounds. Bedside rounds have fallen in and out of favor over the years, but more recently have become increasingly popular.
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Do your duty: Report all infections
Two leading federal agencies are warning hospitals and other facilities that they can be fined and denied Medicare funds if they are caught intentionally underreporting healthcare-associated infections.
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Educational programs target gaps in knowledge at SNFs, LTACH
When nurses at Oregon Health & Science University Hospital began using videoconferencing to hand off patients to nurses in a post-acute facility, the hospital team noticed that some of the nurses in the receiving facility often had gaps in knowledge.
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Video handoffs cut readmissions from post-acute providers
The readmission rate for patients being discharged from Oregon Health & Science University Hospital to a skilled nursing facility have dropped from 26% to 12% among patients whose handoffs were handled via videoconferencing.
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Partnership increases contact between patients, home health nurses
UCLA Health has formed a partnership with three home health agencies that agreed to increase the number of times home health nurses interact with patients after they are discharged from the hospital to home with home health services.
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Bed leasing program helps hospitals discharge hard-to-place patients
UCLA Health’s program that pays a negotiated daily rate to skilled nursing facilities to hold beds for patients who otherwise would stay in an acute care bed saved a total of 2,516 acute care days from June 2014 to July 2015.