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Community Efforts Cut Readmissions for Low-income, Hispanic Patients
When Dependable Home Health Services in Nogales, AZ, began an initiative to reduce its readmission rate, 23% of patients served by the home health agency were readmitted to the hospital within 30 days. Within a year, the readmission rate was reduced to 19%.
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Questions About Your Patients’ Culture? Look For Answers Here
Information that case managers can use to find out more about their patients is just a click away
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Hospital Uses Telehealth to Monitor At-risk Patients On the Navajo Reservation
Faced with the need to provide follow-up care for its Native American patients, many of whom lack electricity or running water, the telehealth department at Northern Arizona Healthcare’s Flagstaff Medical Center developed a remote patient monitoring program and worked with the care management staff to implement the program.
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C. Difficile Reduced 75% With Targeted Interventions
A hospital in Medford, OR, reduced its rates of C. difficile infections by three-quarters with a targeted approach intended to identify exactly what strategy is the most effective after previous attempts left hospital leaders wondering which of several interventions had worked.
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Worried About Staff Burnout? Here Are Prevention Strategies
Most healthcare organizations have to deal with staff burnout and stress, but there are healthy strategies and policies that can help staff deal with these common workplace woes.
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Are Lengthier Interviews on Readmission Worth the Time?
Some hospitals are implementing more in-depth patient interviews on readmission, seeking to collect more and better data that can help identify quality issues that might be addressed. But do the results justify the investment?
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Will New Healthcare Regulations Go into Effect — Or Be Shelved?
President Donald Trump’s executive order of Jan. 30, 2017, has created a great deal of uncertainty for healthcare organizations and a major challenge for the FDA.
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Health System Defines Chief Advance Directives
The Frederick Regional Health System in Frederick, MD, has created an advance care planning educational program for people and providers in the community.
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Advance Care Planning Education is Invaluable for Case Management Patients
Advance care planning education can provide patients and their families with valuable information for making decisions about patients’ care at times of health crisis, or end of life.
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With GWEP, Health Network Keeps High-risk Elderly Healthier
The nation’s elderly population is growing at a rate of 10,000 people per day, and the healthcare industry will have difficulty handling their medical needs optimally without more clinicians trained in geriatric care.