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Safety First initiative helps hospital cut safety events by 50%
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center’s Safety First Every Day initiative has resulted in a 50% reduction in serious safety events, declines in falls with injuries and infections in intensive care units, and an increase in safety occurrence reporting.
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Patient status reviews are on hold again
Patient status reviews by the Recovery Auditors have been delayed again, this time until Oct. 1, 2015, by an act of Congress.
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A tale of two discharge plans
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD, CPHRM, CCM, CCP, president of Patient Safety Education and Consulting in Dublin, OH, relates two stories from real life to illustrate how discharge planning is closely aligned with patient safety.
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Part of patient advocacy is reporting errors
Hospital case managers are in a prime position to see many things that consistently go wrong or need improvement but, like everyone else, may be reluctant to bring them up.
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Focus on patient safety all day, every day
You may think that because you’re a case manager, you aren’t directly involved in patient safety. You couldn’t be further from the truth, experts say.
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Hospital goes high tech, improves hand hygiene
An Alabama hospital greatly improved hand hygiene compliance and significantly reduced healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) after installing an automated hand-hygiene monitoring system.
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New task force aims to revamp revenue cycle with a ‘patient-centric’ focus
When payers, providers, revenue cycle vendors, consultants, and financial institutions met to discuss the next generation of revenue cycle management processes and tools, there was a surprising amount of agreement.
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Primary care-based interventions cut admissions, ED visits
Since Lehigh Valley Health Network started its Community Care Team initiative in 2012, at-risk patients who received interventions from an interdisciplinary team of clinicians reduced hospital admissions by 49% and emergency department visits by 25%.
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Post-discharge interventions reduce readmissions by 20%
At-risk patients who receive post-discharge phone calls from RN transitional care specialists at Ochsner Health System’s Care Coordination Center have 20% fewer readmissions than patients with similar conditions who don’t have the intervention.
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Case managers, financial staff work together closely
At Medical City Dallas Hospital, the case management team works closely with the financial team to ensure that patients get the care they need and that the hospital is reimbursed for the stay, says Pat Wilson, RN, BSN, MBA, assistant vice president for case management and transplant services.