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Privately Paid Care Management: Emerging Service Provides Advocacy and More
A privately paid care manager is a care option when an elderly patient does not have family close by. This is a service that has emerged to fill a need of the “sandwich generation” — adult children trying to coordinate care for elderly parents who live far away. The care manager often is a nurse, social worker, gerontologist, physical therapist, occupational therapist, or other health-related professional.
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Age-Friendly Initiative: Is Your Hospital Ready?
Case managers see it all the time: an older adult who has difficulty navigating the healthcare system. And, too often, this difficulty can lead to 30-day readmissions because the patient did not receive optimal care.
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Maternal Mortality Risks Include Accidents and Domestic Violence
Some maternal injuries are caused by accidents and intimate partner violence. Case managers should be alert to signs and symptoms and educate about prevention.
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Hospitals Sometimes Diagnose Critical Obstetric Illness Too Late
The key to setting up a program for recognizing and managing maternal compromise is to create a team and train staff on how to recognize early warning signs.
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The Joint Commission's New Perinatal Safety Standards Explained
Hospital Case Management asked Jennifer Hurlburt, MSN, RN, APN/CNS, associate director of The Joint Commission’s department of standards and survey methods, to answer a few questions about TJC’s Proposed Standards for Perinatal Safety, published April 17, 2019.
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Hospitals Can Do More to Prevent Maternal Deaths
The Joint Commission published its new Proposed Standards for Perinatal Safety in April to provide evidence-based procedures that hospitals can use to identify and treat maternal hemorrhage and pre-eclampsia.
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Overmonitoring Addressed With EHR Order Set, Adherence to Best Practices
A Minnesota hospital is addressing the problem of overmonitoring patients with an order set in the electronic health record that prompts clinicians to limit monitoring and unit assignments to only what is needed. However, introducing the system was not without challenges.
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Interdisciplinary Care Rounds: A Key Strategy for Improving Case Management Outcomes, Part Three
Case Management Insider continues discussion of scripting interdisciplinary rounds and reviews the roles each team member plays.
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Making Progress to Reduce Overtreatment
Excess screenings, scans, and treatments that offered little or no benefit were being prescribed at an estimated $210 billion a year, according to a 2013 report.
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First Steps to Help a Trafficking Victim
To ensure patient and staff safety, each organization should develop a protocol for human trafficking that includes staff training; multidisciplinary approach; screening and identification; mandatory reporting; follow-through procedures.