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Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services web site. https://questions.cms.hhs.gov.
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From the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) perspective, the saying "ignorance is bliss" does not apply when it comes to a patient's status.
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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.
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Recognizing that seniors have a unique set of health care challenges, CDPHP has developed the Health Ally program for the Medicare population.