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Experts will share their proven ideas for successful case management at the 8th Annual Hospital Case Management Conference, Delivering on the Promise of Case Management: Making an Impact in a Challenging Health Care Environment, to be held April 27-29, 2003, in Atlanta.
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Obtaining prescription drugs for patients who cant afford them has been a problem for Athens (GA) Regional Medical Center for the 18 years that Beverly A. Baker, CRC, CCM, has been with the hospital, she says.
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W.A. Foote Memorial Hospital in Jackson, MI, has dramatically increased the bang for its prescription drug buck by forming a medication assistance program (MAP) in conjunction with several community agencies, says Beth A. Smith, RN, MSN, MBA, director of case management.
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A social work professional at a 100-bed hospital in Indiana is getting free medications for patients who cant afford them with a program she says could be a model for health care organizations across the country.
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Case managers frequently are involved in projects intended to identify optimal uses for health care resources. There are clear limits to what types of health care services can be provided, and this means that clinicians have to make choices about diagnostic tests and treatments.
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If youre a hospital case manager with a catastrophically ill or injured patient, part of your job as advocate for the patient should be to find out who may be at risk financially for the patients care in addition to his or her health insurance coverage, says Joann C. Milne, RN, BSN, CRRN, PHN.
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When physicians write discharge orders for patients, they leave the arrangements for the case managers to make.
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The days are long past when there were few limits to what a hospital case manager could recommend for a patients discharge plan.