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Coordinating care for complex patients is knowledge work that often requires deep concentration. And deep concentration requires periods of uninterrupted time.
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National Case Management Week, Oct. 8-14, 2006, is a great opportunity to make sure that the case managers on your staff feel appreciated and that their contributions are recognized by the entire hospital.
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If you want to recruit qualified case managers and retain the ones you have, you have to create the kind of environment in which caring nurses want to work.
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Kettering Medical Center has found a solution to the challenges case managers face when they have to manage the daily care of patients, plan for discharge, work with insurance companies, and ensure that the hospital is meeting its targets for quality initiatives.
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Hospital case managers are in a unique position to help their hospitals find solutions to the ever-increasing problem of overcrowded emergency departments (EDs) ...
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When traumatically injured patients are admitted to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, the only Level 1 Trauma Center in New Hampshire, their care is coordinated from arrival in the emergency department (ED) through discharge.
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Before Mease (FL) Dunedin Hospital began a Six Sigma project to improve patient discharge, only 45% of patients whose discharge orders were issued by noon were being discharged by 1 p.m.
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An initiative to improve the health of pregnant women and their infants and toddlers has resulted in a drop in the infant mortality rate for Crozer-Keystone Health System.
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Since the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' (JCAHO) unannounced survey process began in January, the average number of requirements for improvement (RFIs) given to hospitals has increased to 6.9 as of April 2006, compared with 5.8 in 2005.
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A documentation improvement program in which care managers and coders work as a team resulted in an increase in revenue of more than $1 million in 2005 for United Health Service Hospital in Johnson City, NY.