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Worker Safety Is Critical to Patient Safety
As the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbates the national nursing shortage, healthcare workers are finally seen as a valuable commodity that should not be routinely lost to injuries trying to manually lift and mobilize patients. Ultimately, understanding worker safety equals patient safety improves the well-being of an organization. -
Are Boosters Prolonging the Pandemic?
Some people have raised the question of whether booster shots are unethical from a global perspective, and even counterproductive to ending the pandemic because highly mutated variants will continue to arise in unvaccinated patients. -
Winter of Our Discontent: Omicron Variant Pushes Healthcare to Brink
With omicron causing much higher breakthrough infection rates than previous COVID-19 variants, there is concern infected healthcare workers must isolate amid an ongoing nursing shortage. The previous recommendation for 10 days has been changed to seven, and shorter than that under certain conditions. -
Artificial Intelligence Documentation Assistant Shows Promise for Healthcare Charting
Advocates are seeking relief for physicians overburdened with too many administrative tasks.
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Screening Ineffective for Identifying HCWs with Respiratory Illness
Ubiquitous employee temperature screening and symptom questions upon entry during the pandemic have not yielded much success in identifying sick healthcare workers and reducing the long-standing problem of presenteeism. -
HIT Changes and Case Management
While health information technology is ever-changing, case managers should have an idea of how new (or improved) solutions might affect their practice. -
‘Why Not Home?’ Program Improves Efficiency of Care Transitions
Why Not Home? is a new program designed to encourage more transitions from hospital to home with healthcare support instead of from the hospital to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Data show a positive effect on costs. Research showed the rate of SNF discharges per 1,000 patients declined from 73 per 1,000 to 70 per 1,000 patients in the postintervention period. -
Universal Method Needed to Collect Social Determinants of Health Information
Healthcare professionals seek a standardized universal method for collecting and using social determinants of health data, according to new research. -
Childhood Trauma Is an Overlooked Social Determinants of Health Factor
Research demonstrates strong connections between exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), chronic stress, and poor health, including frailty in older adults. Health systems could make it a priority for providers and case managers to identify ACEs among adult populations and ask for better integrated services and models of care to serve this group. -
Study Author Explains How Care Coordination Failures Create Healthcare Waste
Hospital Case Management asked Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA, president and chief executive officer of Healthcare Financial Management Association, about his findings that failures in care coordination lead to costly waste in the healthcare industry.