Hospital Case Management
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The Case Manager’s Role in Palliative Care
For many patients, symptoms such as severe pain, fatigue, reduced functional ability, and shortness of breath are debilitating, yet go unaddressed.
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Patient Reassessments Help Hospital Reach Top Goal of Patient Safety
A children’s hospital targeted seven-day readmissions, successfully reducing the rate after instituting a patient safety case management program.
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Health Systems Should Stay on Top of Longitudinal Care Curve
Payers are moving toward longitudinal or value-based care across the care continuum, but health systems are lagging in building an infrastructure for this newer model.
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Interdisciplinary Care Rounds: A Key Strategy for Improving Case Management Outcomes, Part Two
This month will discuss the elements of a walking rounds format and the role that the interdisciplinary team members play in the process.
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Children’s Hospital Develops Tool to Improve Throughput
Changes in regulatory and reimbursement factors are making it more likely that children’s hospitals will follow in the footsteps of health systems and focus on improving patient throughput and reducing readmissions.
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Pediatric Hospitals Develop Best Practices to Avoid Readmissions
A group of children’s hospitals has taken the bundles of care approach, applying a bundle of their best practices to see how these impact outcomes.
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Well-Regarded Business Strategies Can Be Used in Case Management
Payers, including the federal government, are beginning to recognize that healthcare providers can succeed with keeping patients healthy only to the extent that patients are willing collaborators in their own care.
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Value-Based Care Requires Support for At-Risk Populations
Case managers should learn how to better work with patients most vulnerable to hospitalization and build relationships with them, experts say.
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Care Transition Bundle Outlines Seven Strategies
The National Transitions of Care Coalition uses seven key elements that help health systems adopt value-based care.
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Case Management Trends in 2019 Include Focus on Value and Pathways to Success
Change is in the air this year, and it is moving the focus more toward case management work in care coordination and value-based care.