Hospital Case Management
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Ethical Considerations for Complex Discharges
What will you do if a patient refuses prescribed treatment? If the patient does not follow doctor’s orders, how will you advise them? If adult children will not let you tell the patient his diagnosis, what will you do? These are common situations in healthcare. Each raises an ethical dilemma for hospital case managers.
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Case Management Leaders Should Identify Sustainable Solutions
Hospital case management leaders have found their departments evolving in recent years, often to include practices and models that focus on population health goals. As care coordinators and case managers move toward transitions that incorporate these goals, one challenge is sustainability. New research provides a model for sustaining a collaborative practice model that advances population health.
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Mandates for Discharging Homeless Patients Take Effect in California
California recently enacted a law that addresses this issue by requiring hospitals to follow a prescribed plan for identifying and safely discharging homeless patients. SB 1152 outlines specific discharge planning measures for homeless patients in acute care hospitals.
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Plan of Care Rounds Improve Communication
Collaborative care teams can use interdisciplinary plan of care rounds to improve communication and facilitate smooth transitions. The plan of care round team can give patients a brief overview and answer patients’ questions or concerns.
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Stroke Risk and Social Determinants of Health
Income levels, health insurance access among several factors researchers connected to incident stroke events.
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Case Managers Can Help Patients Control Medication
Medication management and access can be challenging when case managers and other providers cannot visit patients’ homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Caring for Patients During the Crisis Requires More Creativity, Coordination
The COVID-19 pandemic makes care coordination and case management more difficult for a variety of reasons. For instance, finding community resources for struggling senior patients is difficult in areas where organizations have closed operations or restricted access to services. Also, senior adults face more loneliness and emotional health challenges. They have lost access to many of their traditional social support networks because of physical distancing during the pandemic.
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Promoting Self-Care Among Older Patients Is More Challenging During COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic changed routine case management of older patients. Case managers have had to more creative in finding community resources and post-acute referrals for patients since many organizations were closed or limited in their services for months.
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Decline in Medicare Readmissions Likely Not Caused by Reduction Program
Results of a comprehensive study, analyzing more than 6 million Medicare admissions, revealed declining 30-day hospital readmissions from 2009 to 2014. Some policymakers have attributed the decline to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, introduced in 2010. But researchers found the declining readmissions also could be explained by declining hospital admission rates over the same period.