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At St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa, a multidisciplinary team collaborates with clinicians throughout the continuum to manage the care of heart failure patients.
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As we discussed last month, healthcare reform has changed the landscape of healthcare and of case management. Emerging trends and changes related to reimbursement, readmissions, pay for performance, outcomes and newly contracted reviewer agencies such as the Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs), have changed familiar payment methods and audits to new and different ones in a short amount of time.
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To prevent readmissions when patients are transitioning from the acute care hospital to an inpatient rehabilitation center, case managers should make sure the patients are appropriate for acute rehab, that their medical conditions are stable, and that they can tolerate three hours of physical therapy every day.
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mbulatory surgery providers looking for ways to prevent miscommunication and improve their internal and external patient handoffs now have a free, proven tool to make their job easier.
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Aaaahhhh. The survey is over. "I don' t have to worry about this for another two and one-half years," you might think.
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New reports issued in 2012 by the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement offer performance measurement and benchmarking data for four of the most common outpatient procedures: cataract surgery, colonoscopy, low back injection, and knee arthroscopy.
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New comprehensive guidelines for the preoperative care of elderly patients have been issued by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Geriatrics Society (AGS).
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Healthcare facilities have been put on alert to recognize fatigue among workers as a risk to patient safety. But for now, facilities won't face any regulatory consequences for failing to address it.
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The Institute of Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) is focusing on unsafe injection practices, and it points out that according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), these practices have caused more than 50 outbreaks of bloodborne diseases in the past 10 years.1 More than 600 patients were infected, according to the CDC.