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Case Managers Help Total Joint Surgery Program Reach Goals
For an outpatient bundled total joint surgery program, case managers play an important role in helping patients stay healthy post-surgery.
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Strategies to Tie Case Management to Population Health Data
Organizations can employ a number of strategies to improve health outcomes and reduce medical spending when engaged in a population health program.
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ACO Improves Population Health by Using Case Management, Data
A population health program uses quality metrics, case management, and other strategies to reduce healthcare costs and improve patients’ health outcomes.
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Avoiding Costs, Risks Through Reduced Hospitalization Among Older Adults
New research involving three medical centers suggests that older patients seen by transitional care nurses with geriatric training are less likely to be admitted than similar patients who do not receive these specialized evaluations.
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Mobile Integrated Health Helps With Patients’ Transitioning Gap
A health system uses mobile integrated health to improve outcomes and reduce readmission rates among patients with chronic conditions such as heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Here’s How CHAMP Helps High-risk Asthma Patients
Called Changing High-risk Asthma in Memphis through Partnership, or CHAMP, the program incorporates various best practices, including early identification of children who could most benefit from the case management intervention.
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Asthma Case Management Program Helps Improve Children’s Health
A Memphis-based pediatric asthma program quickly produced positive results for patients and Tennessee’s Medicaid program due to its community, healthcare provider, and payer collaboration.
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Nurse Sues Health System for Firing After Safety Complaints
A hospital and health system in California is facing a lawsuit from a nurse who says she was fired for blowing the whistle on unsafe working conditions that threatened patients and staff.
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Red Light Says ‘Not Now’ for Nurses in Critical Work
There are times when a nurse's full attention is needed for a task that is critical to patient safety. One hospital is using red lights on workstations to indicate that the nurse must not be interrupted.
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Strict Safety Briefings Reduce CAUTIs, CLABSIs, and Falls
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis was experiencing a problem familiar to many hospitals: It could make quality improvements, but had difficulty making those improvements stick, as there was a lack of bedside accountability.