Discharge Planning
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CMS Cuts Bundled Payment Program, Tweaks Quality Initiatives
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed sweeping changes in three bundled payment initiatives, and tweaked some of the pay-for-performance measures that affect hospital reimbursement.
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Collaboration Moves Long-stay Patients to Next Level of Care
When NYC Health+Hospitals’ acute care hospitals and post-acute facilities began collaborating in a pilot project, they were able to place challenging patients in the appropriate level of care — a program that is on track to save the public hospital system $3.5 million per year when it is rolled out systemwide.
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Got Challenging Patients? Try These Discharge Tips
Every case management leader should be educating their teams on how to deal with complex and difficult-to-discharge patients so the case managers will know what to do when they face a specific issue.
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Refer Difficult-to-place Patients to a Discharge Planning Specialist
The changes in healthcare reimbursement and the increase in patients with complex needs and inadequate or no funding have created a huge workload for case managers and social workers.
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Start Early to Overcome the Challenges of Complex Patients
Timely and safe discharges are more important than ever in today’s healthcare world, but an increase in complex patients makes creating a discharge plan a challenge.
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Admission and Discharge Timeouts in Case Management Practice
With the advent of healthcare reform, it has become clear that case management often is the driver of transitions in care. This month will discuss two important tools that case managers can use to improve their patients’ transitions in care — the admission and discharge time-out processes.
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Patient Navigators Help Patients Connect to Primary Care, Avoid ED Visits
Frequent ED visitors decreased their visits by 50% at New York-Presbyterian health system hospitals after community health workers, called patient navigators, began connecting at-risk patients to primary care providers and educating them on how to seek treatment at an appropriate level of care.
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Dual Approach Helps At-risk Patients Overcome Obstacles to Receiving Care
To bridge the gap between at-risk patients and the providers treating them, New York-Presbyterian Hospital has developed two different models in which trained lay members of the community work with at-risk patients to help them navigate the healthcare system and manage their health.
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CHWs Embedded in the Hospital and Clinic Support Patients in the Community
After a randomized trial showed that patients receiving interventions from a community health worker had improved outcomes, Penn Medicine expanded the program and now 30 community health workers are embedded on teams in hospitals and primary care clinics.
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No Degree? No Problem: CHWs Need the Ability to Connect With People
When it comes to being a successful community health worker, academic background takes a backseat to life experiences and characteristics like compassion, reliability, and the ability to connect with people, experts say.