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When Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, undertook an initiative to improve the efficiency of nursing homes admissions, the task force looked at ways to improve communication and collaboration with local skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).
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Before Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center started an initiative to improve the transition of patients to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), about 12% of the Lebanon, NH, facilitys patient days were patients waiting for SNF placement.
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Researchers are set to release new data confirming the benefits of a case management strategy heralded three years ago as a way to decrease the cost of treating repeat patients in the emergency department (ED).
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Stroke centers with specialized stroke teams have the potential to improve outcomes and decrease lengths of stay (LOS) for facilities that previously have relied solely on pre-hospital and emergency department (ED) infrastructure.
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When Jeanne Musolf, MS, RN, CCM, talks with new employees about the inpatient case management program at Childrens Hospital of Wisconsin, she often tells them, expect that how things are currently will not be how they are six months from now. Were always trying to improve and change.
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At Sarasota (FL) Memorial Hospital, discharge planners dont spend a lot of time checking off boxes to document each individual task they have performed.
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While many case management organizations are struggling to demonstrate the contributions they make to patient care, reimbursement, and cost containment, the integrated case management department at Sarasota (FL) Memorial Hospital has overcome the barrier and can demonstrate with confidence how it contributes to organizational success.
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For years, health care managers have been reworking documentation forms trying to streamline the process to make it fast and efficient to increase compliance. No one ever designed the perfect form.
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Reducing patient length of stay (LOS) from nearly seven days to the regional average of 5.5 days usually takes two years, according to the Health Care Advisory Board, a nationally recognized organization that provides best practices research and analysis to the health care industry.
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Discharge planners at some facilities apparently are either unaware of or are ignoring a federal requirement that hospitals offer patients a choice of home care providers and that they tell patients when there is a financial interest between the hospital and an agency to which the patient is being referred.