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The report card that begins below is an example of a method for aggregating and reporting all the measures that we have reviewed in the last two issues.
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As reform helps more Americans gain access to health coverage, experts predict that the nation's EDs will be bulging at the seams.
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Case managers are likely to have additional duties added to their workload under a proposed rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that would require providers to formally notify Medicare beneficiaries of their right to communicate concerns about the quality of the care they received to the state Quality Improvement Organization (QIO).
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As a result of a pre-billing review of charts of patients who die in the hospital, the mortality index at Stony Brook University Medical Center has remained steady at under 1 except for one month when it was 1.04, according to Catherine Morris, RN, MS, CCM, CMAC, executive director of care management and clinical documentation improvement administrator at the 591-bed medical center in Stony Brook, NY.
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A few years ago, it was a common practice for case managers to be responsible for clinical documentation improvement along with their other duties, but that should no longer be the case, according to Toni Cesta, RN, PhD, FAAN, senior vice president, operational efficiency and capacity management at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY, and partner and consultant in Dallas-based Case Management Concepts, a case management consulting firm.
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If you don't have a robust clinical documentation improvement program implemented by highly trained staff, your hospital might find itself in trouble in more ways than one.
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Do you need to gear up for an accreditation survey in a short amount of time?
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The H1N1 influenza pandemic might prompt lasting changes in the personal protective equipment for healthcare workers and the rules that govern them.
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The Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon was an early adopter of registration kiosks, says Jane Gray, CPA, FACHE, FHFMA, assistant vice president for the revenue cycle.