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You're a case manager in an ICU unit and your hospital is in the path of a Category 5 hurricane. How do you make sure your patients get to safety?
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When McLaren Regional Medical Center got the news that 50 people injured in an airplane crash were headed toward the hospital, the case management staff sprang into action.
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Barbara Zielinski, MSW, CCM, does double duty as a case manager and social worker on the women and children's services unit at Ingham Regional Medical Center in Lansing, MI, working with children's protective services or adoption agencies to place some of the infants born at the hospital.
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As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) moves toward its value-based purchasing initiative, case managers are in a position to help their hospitals prepare for the time when payment will be linked to quality, rather than just delivery of service.
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As hurricane season approaches each year, case managers in North Broward Hospital District's disease state management programs work with their patients to make sure they will be safe if a storm hits the area, causing flooding and power outages.
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The Joint Commission has proposed standards revisions that could weaken infection control programs "significantly at a time when health care associated infections (HAIs) are receiving increasing attention by legislators, payers, and consumers," ...
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As many as 62 new drugs may be added to the list of potential workplace hazards by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
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Multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is reaching alarming levels around the country, but at the VA Medical Center in Pittsburgh, MRSA rates have dropped by 60% in the past five years. The key: Health care workers are team players in a comprehensive approach to halting MRSA.
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Choosing a respirator is partly a matter of numbers. Each one has a rating for its filtration and seal, which reveals how much of the contaminated ambient air would still reach the lungs.
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The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic pointed out the need for better source control among patients, visitors and health care workers with respiratory infections.