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Helping Human Trafficking Victims: Is Your Staff Prepared?
A forensic wants to help hospital staff recognize trafficking victims and establish hospital protocols that protect and aid a victim’s escape from the trafficking coercion.
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Study Targets Causes of 30-Day Rehospitalizations
A new study has identified some of the most common physiological reasons for 30-day unplanned rehospitalizations among heart failure patients — making it possible for case managers and others to develop interventions and strategies to address this problem.
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Case Managers Can Drive Success in Hospitals
Hospitals are moving from the traditionally reactive to newer proactive model of providing quality healthcare. This puts case managers in the driver’s seat when it comes to steering the organization to better outcomes.
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A Closer Look at Trinity Health’s Integrated Care Coordination System
Care coordinators can help hospitals better manage care through an integrated system that provides best practices in the handover process.
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Plan of Care Collaboration Can Reduce Readmissions
Hospital case managers are part of a care team collaboration that spans healthcare settings and disciplines, focusing on improving patient care and preventing high-risk patients from being readmitted to the hospital.
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Health System’s Integrated Care Program Is a People-Centered Strategy
Two Midwestern health systems exemplify the emerging new strategy of coordinating integrated care systems to improve patient care and reduce hospital and ED readmissions.
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Dynamic Dashboard Gives Bedside Case Managers Ready Knowledge
Case managers often encounter inefficiencies in their daily work due to poor communication and lack of actionable data. As one health system has learned, this obstacle can be eliminated with the right data metrics and dynamic dashboard.
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Building Resilience and Gratitude in Case Management Practice
In healthcare, life comes at you fast — and case managers may struggle to handle it all. That is when it pays to bring up the adage, “Control what you can, accept the rest.”
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Loneliness Prevalent Among Older Adults, With Negative Effects on Health
Hospital case managers should be alert to the risk of their patients suffering from loneliness and social isolation. These conditions can worsen mental and physical health outcomes for patients and are fairly commonplace among older populations.
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Case Study: New York Hospital Meets a Palliative Care Mandate
End-of-life discussions with patients and families can be difficult. It is the elephant in the room that physicians, case managers, and other healthcare professionals hesitate to discuss.