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Privately Paid Case Managers Serve as Patient Health Advocates
Case managers work with patients across the care continuum, and their roles and titles vary. But one of the lesser-known models for case management is in private pay, where they are known as health advocates or patient advocates. It is a growing field, as patients and families often find it difficult to navigate the complex healthcare continuum. Health advocates provide case management-type services with their chief goals related to patients’ needs.
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Optimize Data Visualization to Improve Communication About Quality Improvement
Data visualization is increasingly important in the communication of quality improvement data, and nearly everyone in the field uses it to some extent. But effective use of data visualization with graphics, dashboards, and other tools requires an understanding of why this approach works and how to optimize its effect.
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EDs, Community Partners Play Central Role in Slashing HIV Diagnoses in San Francisco
An initiative that began five years ago in San Francisco has resulted in a dramatic reduction of new HIV diagnoses in the region. In the first half of 2018, there were just 81 new HIV diagnoses, according to the latest data. Further, investigators report that the number of deaths attributable to HIV has declined by more than 50%. The city’s success in addressing the HIV epidemic is largely attributable to the collective efforts of Getting to Zero San Francisco, a multisector consortium that aims to reduce HIV infections, deaths, and stigma to meet aggressive 90-90-90 goals,
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Reducing Long-Term Patient Costs Requires Going Above and Beyond
Case managers in hospitals and community settings often have to go beyond point of care activities to help patients make significant improvements in their health and healthcare costs. This is particularly true with patient populations experiencing major barriers to maintaining disease control and health improvement, including housing, food access, transportation.
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HIV/AIDS Organizations Help Patients Overcome Healthcare Disparities
AIDS organizations were decades ahead of other groups in addressing health disparities and barriers.
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Case Managers Can Ease Health Inequities and Barriers to Care
Health inequity and barriers can negatively affect patient care. Case managers can work with community organizations to untangle this societal problem.
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Third-Party Social Determinants of Health Data Can Help Improve Quality of Care
Healthcare providers are increasingly focusing on social determinants of health to improve quality of care and outcomes, and many are finding that data from third parties can be key to the success of those programs.
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Quick Wins: Blood Draws, Infection Rates, Sepsis
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has had success with several quick wins through the kind of quality improvement effort that yields meaningful change without requiring a lot of time, money, or effort.
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‘Purposeful Rounding’ Mixes Security, Clinical Teams to Help De-Escalate Tense Situations
Concerned about the rise in workplace violence across the United States, administrators at St. Louis-based SSM Health decided they needed to look for new solutions to the problem in their network of hospitals. They came up with “purposeful rounding,” a concept based on the idea that if security personnel are more integrated into the care team, there is a better chance of de-escalating behaviors so situations do not turn into major disruptions or violent acts.