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Hospital Improves Acute Care for Elders With Dedicated Unit
A Massachusetts-based health system is reporting positive results from an initiative designed to improve care for geriatric patients and increase the use of advance care planning. Baystate Health’s Acute Care for Elders model of care is a designated unit that includes staff trained on mobility, rationalizing, medication, early discharge planning, and early recognition and treatment of dementia.
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Health System’s Risk Analytics Find Patients in Most Need
Artificial intelligence and case management can help patients stay out of the hospital. An inpatient rehabilitation hospital system uses risk stratification data from electronic health records to identify patients with declining health who might need to be sent to an acute care hospital.
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Connected Care Management Model Helps Rehab Patients
A connected care management program for stroke and other inpatient rehabilitation patients could work for all at-risk patients as they transition from inpatient acute care to rehabilitation care, home health, and the community.
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Navajo Case Management Program Combines Cultural, Patient-Centered Care
The best way to improve the health of high-risk patients might require case management that is sensitive to the population’s particular cultural, religious, and socioeconomic needs. Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility in Chinle, AZ, created a program that employs culturally sensitive care management staff. Health coaches meet with patients to help them make their first doctor appointments and to navigate them through the healthcare system.
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Program for Navajo Diabetes Population Uses Case Management Techniques
A health center that works with a Navajo population in Arizona faced challenges in improving care for people who struggle to overcome cultural and economic barriers to care. The center’s solution combines case management with cultural integration in medical care.
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Provider Stress Can Trickle Down to Affect Patient Safety
The healthcare industry can be stressful for everyone involved, with clinicians sometimes suffering greatly from the workload, time demands, bureaucracy, and the emotional nature of their work. Minimizing stress is important for the health of the caregivers, but also to maintain patient safety. When staff are exhausted, experiencing depersonalization from their work and feeling less effective, they are more likely to fail to follow practices that support high-quality, safer care.
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Ongoing Research Examines Asthma and Depression
Older patients with asthma are an underserved population, and new research will seek answers to why these patients often experience such poor outcomes.
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Telemedicine Program Helps Manage Postpartum Hypertension
A new study shows the benefits of developing a case management program to monitor women with pregnancy-related hypertension. Researchers found evidence of high compliance, retention, and patient satisfaction with a postpartum remote hypertension monitoring protocol.
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Tips for Case Managers to Understand Transgender Patients’ Health Needs
Case managers can help improve healthcare access for transgender patients through proactive steps, including learning more about the terminology related to transgender identity. The first thing case managers should do to improve care of transgender patients is to know the terminology and framework involving a transgender individual.
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Transgender Patients Experience Health Risks From Discrimination
Transgender patients face daunting health challenges due to violence, discrimination, and stress. Case managers can help them navigate barriers to care and find providers who are knowledgeable and friendly to LGBTQ patients.