Hospital Case Management
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Coordinating Transitions Requires Experience, Knowledge of Resources
The role of transition coordinator may be a new one, but it will take an experienced case manager or social worker to handle it successfully.
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New Role for Case Managers Opens Up with Payment Reform
Somebody has to coordinate the post-discharge care now that hospitals are beginning to bear risk for what happens to patients after discharge, but inpatient case managers are already swamped and don’t have the time to do the job well, experts say.
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Warm Handoffs Connect Substance Abuse Patients to Vital Services
Although there are varying perspectives on whether emergency providers should place substance abuse patients on medication-assisted treatment while patients are in the emergency setting, there is wide agreement that linking all such patients to treatment is important.
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New Initiative Slashes Opioid Prescriptions, Boosts Community Response
The Monterey County Prescribe Safe Initiative is a multi-agency collaborative conceived in February 2014 as a way to address the problem of prescription opioid misuse in Monterey County, CA.
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CMS is Accepting Applications for Five-year Primary Care Model
CMS has begun enrolling applications for its new nationwide primary care model, Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+).
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Is Your Case Management Department Making the Grade?
As a case manager or an administrator of a case management program in your organization, you may be called on to participate in the evaluation of the case management model, its effects on the organization, or its effects on patient outcomes.
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Compressed Work Shifts Put Nurses at Risk
Nurses appear to be at higher risk of injury as they suffer a kind of cumulative fatigue and diminishment in balance and reactions working “compressed” shifts, researchers report.
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Get Ready to Give Your Patients the MOON
Hospitals should start now to develop a process to deliver the Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice (MOON), alerting patients that they are receiving observation services and informing them of their potential financial responsibilities.
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As Healthcare Becomes Value-based, Hospital Partners With the Community for Patient Care
Spartanburg (SC) Regional Healthcare System is partnering with providers at other levels of care and in the community to improve care for Medicaid patients and the uninsured.
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Community Partnership Provides Home Visits for At-risk Population
Rockdale Medical Center in suburban Atlanta teamed up with community partners on an initiative that has reduced readmissions and ED visits by high-risk, medically underserved patients.