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How a Transitional Care Leader’s Organization Survived the Pandemic Chaos
In this Q&A, Hospital Case Management asked Vera Usinowicz, APN-C, supervisor of The Center for Comprehensive Heart Failure Care at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, to discuss how her transitional care unit kept heart failure patients out of the emergency department and hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Stroke Care Transitions Program Benefits from Social Work Case Managers
When social workers helped stroke patients and their caregivers transition from the hospital to home, these case managers found some anecdotal benefits over a 90-day period. -
Updates to Hospital Value-Based Purchasing
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released updates and changes to its Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program. In response to the public health emergency, CMS is suppressing certain measures for 2022. -
Clinical Pharmacy TOC Services White Paper Outlines Quality Measures
Pharmacists’ involvement in transitions of care has evolved over the past decade. The American College of Clinical Pharmacy recently published a white paper that describes various ways pharmacists assist in TOC and recommends quality measures for their processes. -
Pharmacist-Led Transitions of Care Reduced Hospital Readmissions
An intervention that includes pharmacist-led transitions of care can significantly reduce readmissions, according to the results of recent research. Investigators found people enrolled in a pharmacist-led transitions of care clinic experienced significantly lower rates of 30-day and 90-day readmissions when compared to those without the intervention. -
Pharmacists Can Improve Care Transitions, Researchers Suggest
The results of recent research suggest case management and transitions of care teams that include pharmacists see greater success keeping patients healthier and out of the hospital. One study revealed a barrier to pharmacy involvement in care transitions is incomplete communication between pharmacists and providers. -
Patients’ Goals During Long-Term Acute Care Hospital Stays
After a long-term acute care hospital stay, most patients will achieve goals of ventilator liberation, eating, drinking, and speaking, but many will not achieve independence in walking, grooming, toileting, or returning home.
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Chatbots Can Help Care Managers Provide Ethical Treatment
There is no way around it — health systems are facing an ongoing shortage of clinicians to meet the needs of patients who need longitudinal care management. For one system, chatbot technology turned out to be at least a partial solution.
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Best Practices in Utilization Management
The increasing complexity of healthcare has taken the field of case management along for the ride, and with it the practice of utilization management. -
Effect of COVID-19 on Patient Severity of Illness, Evaluating Hospital Performance
Patients with COVID-19 not only experience a higher mortality rate, but also a longer length of stay than other viral illness patients, even when adjusted for other patient factors such as age and comorbidities. Because of this, it is a challenge to evaluate hospital performance during the pandemic.