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Preventing Nurse Burnout Starts with Understanding Causes
There are multiple factors that can contribute to nurse stress and burnout, including job frustration and overwork, poor work-life balance, substance use issues, emotional/family problems, and workplace bullying.
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It Takes an ASC to Cultivate Moral Resilience in Staff
The American Nurses Association recently published a draft call to action on cultivating moral resilience as an antidote to nurses’ and other clinicians’ 'moral suffering and distress.'
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Pharmacist Offers Tips on How ASCs Can Prevent Drug Diversion
Amid a nationwide opioid epidemic, ASCs are not immune to problems related to misuse of controlled substances. Drug diversion should be a chief concern.
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CMS Makes Regulatory Changes; ASCs Might Benefit From Trend
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed several surgery payment changes in recent months, suggesting that Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price is following through on his stated goals of rolling back regulatory burdens for doctors.
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What’s Old Is New Again: The History of Case Management
This month, we will review case management’s long and rich history from a community-based model to an acute care model and beyond.
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High-needs Patients Require Focus to Avoid Readmissions
Hospitals can make significant headway in reducing readmissions by addressing high-needs patients, according to a new National Academy of Medicine special publication, which notes that nearly half of the nation’s spending on healthcare is driven by just 5% of patients.
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CMS Cuts Bundled Payment Program, Tweaks Quality Initiatives
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed sweeping changes in three bundled payment initiatives, and tweaked some of the pay-for-performance measures that affect hospital reimbursement.
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Collaboration Moves Long-stay Patients to Next Level of Care
When NYC Health+Hospitals’ acute care hospitals and post-acute facilities began collaborating in a pilot project, they were able to place challenging patients in the appropriate level of care — a program that is on track to save the public hospital system $3.5 million per year when it is rolled out systemwide.
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Got Challenging Patients? Try These Discharge Tips
Every case management leader should be educating their teams on how to deal with complex and difficult-to-discharge patients so the case managers will know what to do when they face a specific issue.
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Refer Difficult-to-place Patients to a Discharge Planning Specialist
The changes in healthcare reimbursement and the increase in patients with complex needs and inadequate or no funding have created a huge workload for case managers and social workers.