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It's hard to imagine a scenario of greater emotion, conflic, and potential risk than when a mental health worker visits the home of a mentally unstable person to evaluate them for involuntary psychiatric commitment.
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To protect health care workers during a pandemic, you'll need more than a stockpile of N95s and a fit-testing protocol. You'll need well-trained health care workers who understand how and when to use the respirators.
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With increasing demands on case managers' time and expertise, many professionals believe a reevaluation of staffing ratios is in order. The fact that staffing models vary significantly among hospitals complicates the issue.
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A two-pronged initiative under way at Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento, CA, aims to provide interim housing for homeless patients who need home support services or assistance with medications as well as reduce the use of the hospital emergency departments (EDs) for primary care among homeless patients.
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In the wake of a first-of-its-kind settlement regarding the discharge of a homeless woman by a Kaiser Permanente hospital in Southern California, indications are that the disturbing issues it aims to address are far from unique.
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Beginning July 2, hospitals must begin a new process of notifying Medicare beneficiaries of their discharge appeal rights.
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An accident has left John, 52, with a C-4 cervical-level fracture, and the prognosis is that he will remain a quadriplegic. Hospitalized in the intensive care unit, John has been assigned a catastrophic case manager, who has met with him and his wife, Mary.
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Morton Plant Mease Health Care in Clearwater, FL, has found an effective way to fill case management vacancies with qualified candidates.
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Has your organization ever conducted a "Code Adam" drill, which simulates how staff would respond if there were an attempt to abduct a baby from the obstetrics ward during a fire drill?