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Although the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) asked for suggestions on alternative methods of identifying and paying for short hospital stays, the agency did not clarify the two-midnight rule in the Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule for 2015.
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At Carolinas HealthCare System, an Advanced Illness Management (AIM) team targets patients with multiple health issues and frequent hospitalizations and emergency department visits.
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U.S. public health authorities urged health providers to raise their awareness about Ebola virus as two American health care workers became ill with the often fatal disease while caring for infected patients in Liberia. At about the same time, a Liberian man became ill with Ebola and traveled by plane to Lagos, Nigeria, where he died in a hospital.
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OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, IL, redesigned its case management department to improve efficiency and clearly define the role of each clinician.
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How would you like to reduce your staffing costs from 52% to 20% of your revenue in seven months? It is possible, based on the successes at Melville (NY) Surgery Center.
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There is a significant amount of research that demonstrates ED crowding due to boarding is responsible for poor outcomes, says Tom Scaletta, MD, president of Emergency Excellence, a Chicago-based organization that improves patient care and efficiency in the ED while controlling costs. He also is medical director of a high-volume community hospital in a Chicago suburb.
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Although a recent study at the University of Rochester (NY) seems to indicate that telemedicine could eliminate many pediatric ED visits, a pediatric ED physician with extensive experience with telemedicine believes that its applications are not broad enough to have a significant impact on ED overcrowding.
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Telemedicine has long been recognized for improving access to care as well as access to specialist expertise, particularly in rural facilities.
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In its second year, the clinical documentation program at Jupiter (FL) Medical Center was able to increase DRG reimbursement by 75% over the previous year.
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When the clinical nurse specialists and case managers at Akron, OH-based Summa Health analyzed the reasons patients were being readmitted within 31 days, they determined that mobility issues, self-care deficits, pain control, and failure of discharge planning were key factors.