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Adults: Don’t forget to get vaccinated
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Critical Path Network: Computerized pathways should match written policy
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News Briefs: CMS to publish changes in Medicare/Medicaid regs
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Patient Safety Alert Supplement
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Critical Path Network: Neonatal home program saves money, helps babies
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Critical Path Network: Group closing GAP in heart attack care
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News Briefs: Improper payments declined, OIG says
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News Briefs: ED visits, wait time up 14% since 1997
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Department redesign frees up CMs to coordinate care
A redesign of the care coordination department at Riverside Medical Center in Kankakee, IL, assigns utilization review tasks to dedicated nurses, freeing up case managers to spend more time with patients and develop a close working relationship with physicians to facilitate smooth and timely progression of care. -
Don’t just get them out — Make sure they stay out
In the past, case managers and discharge planners have concentrated on how to get patients out of the hospital, but now they also need to focus on how to keep them from coming back, says Deborah Hale, CCS, CCDS, president and chief executive officer of Administrative Consultant Service, a healthcare consulting firm based in Shawnee, OK.