In todays tight nursing labor market, case management directors must find ways to keep staff from seeking greener pastures. The cost of hiring and training new employees is significant. Thats why it is important for directors to motivate and retain quality staff whenever possible.
At National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, DC, a bright green pen-and-paper form has taken up residence in each patient room to help team members document the initial functional independence measure score required under PPS. The green form is hard to miss; but if someone neglects to record a score in the required first three days, the hospitals PPS coordinator will make sure it gets done.
The University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle is in no hurry to implement a tool an ad hoc committee created to teach patients their role in safety issues. It is running it through a series of pre-tests before implementing it housewide.
The purpose of this pre- and post-intervention observation study was to evaluate the effect of an educational initiative on ventilator-associated pneumonia rate.
Switching to an all-electronic system in the emergency department for charting and other functions is only a dream for some cash-strapped facilities, but an Ohio hospital is showing that the high initial cost can be recouped quickly through the money saved on transcription and other services. The hospital is saving more than $400,000 a year in transcription costs alone.
Montefiore Medical Center’s collaboration with five skilled nursing facilities on improving transitions has resulted in a drop in 30-day readmission rates to 15%.
The Medicare Conditions of Participation require hospitals to give patients a choice of post-acute providers, but that doesn’t mean that case managers shouldn’t give them the information they need to make informed choices.
Before you can give patients the information they need to make a good decision, you need to know something about the facilities on the list you give the patients.
Many families spend more time and energy researching the best microwave oven to buy than they spend choosing a post-acute facility for their loved ones
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has made a one-time offer to hospitals to settle pending appeals of patient status claim denials for 68% of the net payable amount.