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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.
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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.
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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%.
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Case managers typically have concentrated on what has to happen before the patient can be discharged from the hospital, but now, to reduce readmissions, hospitals also have to take into consideration what happens to patients after they leave the acute care setting, says Beverly Cunningham, RN, MS, vice president, clinical performance improvement, Medical City Dallas Hospital, and health care consultant and partner in Case Management Concepts LLC.
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Case managers are a hospital's first line of defense when it comes to smoothing transitions of care and preventing readmissions.
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If you assume that your workforce has better than average health statistics due to programs for nutrition, fitness, and smoking cessation, you may be sadly mistaken. On the other hand, you may have far fewer obese employees than the national average.
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Pick up any newspaper or magazine or turn on the news and you're likely to hear somebody talking about this country's obesity epidemic.
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By law, how far can you go in screening employees or altering leave policies during pandemic?
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What would you say are the two strongest drivers of lost productivity due to a health-related problem at your workplace? According to Lisa Jing, program manager of integrated health at San Jose, CA-based Cisco Systems, these are depression and anxiety.
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At ProHealth Care in Waukesha, WI, community outreach is more than the hosting of an educational event from time to time.