Hospital Management
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Hospital culture must be measured, not just improved
Hospitals strive to have the right culture, particularly when it comes to patient safety, but measuring improvement can be challenging.
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High reliability organizations aim high, strive for zero
With the high reliability organization concept, hospitals are aiming not to just improve and reduce errors, but to completely eliminate them.
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Care coordination model works well with diabetes patients
An outpatient case management and care coordination program targeted a population of people with diabetes to improve quality of life and medical care.
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Patient only needed someone to listen
A woman visited the clinic, seeking palliative care services and to see a provider about managing her pain and her goals for care.
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Patient’s last goal was to attend family reunion
A hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner recalls the case of a patient with a pressure ulcer that would not heal.
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Integrating palliative care in case management can work
The recent surge in palliative care growth has been partly fueled by the Affordable Care Act’s focus on improving healthcare quality.
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Palliative Care's Role for Case Managers Increases
Case management’s team-based approach to improving quality of care increasingly is being used for patients with life-threatening illnesses.
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Help Wanted: CBO to Screen Patients for Benefits
Smart thinking and reaching out to a community-based organization partner can result in a solution that benefits patients and everyone else involved, as well.
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Financial Stakes Rise as Auditors Set Their Sights on Providers
Just when you thought the stakes couldn’t be any higher when it comes to getting patient status right and medical necessity documented properly, the CMS has raised the ante.
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Hospital LOS Confirmed to Worsen Hip Fracture Outcomes
Hospital length of stay has been thought to affect a patient’s odds of surviving a hip fracture, and investigators from the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Orthopedics have created a new research tool to determine just how much.