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Occupational Health: Outbreak Investigation 101
In an outbreak situation that affects healthcare workers and patients, occupational health can strike a critical partnership with the infection control department to rapidly resolve the situation.
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Current Healthcare Workers Might Face Another Pandemic
As evidence mounts indicating that climate change is driving emerging infections, healthcare workers may face another pandemic in their lifetime — possibly in their current careers.
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ICU Staff Report Severe Moral Distress, But Resources Are Underused
There is growing awareness of the prevalence of moral distress in healthcare — and the costs in terms of burnout and staff turnover. However, solutions to this problem remain somewhat elusive.
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Ensuring Compliance in Case Management Is Critical
Many compliance issues in the CMS Conditions of Participation for utilization review and discharge planning need attention. Ensuring compliance is critical for improving patient care, preventing financial penalties or sanctions, and avoiding trouble with governmental authorities by identifying and correcting compliance issues early.
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Consider the Burden for Those Caring for Older Trauma Patients
Family caregivers of older people who have experienced a serious fall or another traumatic event sometimes are unprepared for the role. The authors of a recent study found close to one-third of family caregivers of older trauma patients experience high caregiver burden up to three months after the patient’s discharge.
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Pandemic-Era Care Transitions Led to ED Overcrowding
Researchers found that adult patients who visited EDs in a North Carolina health system between March 1, 2020, and March 1, 2022, faced significantly longer stays if they were transitioned from the ED directly to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) instead of transitioning to a hospital bed and then to a SNF.
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Targeted Case Management Helps Patients Experiencing Homelessness
The lack of affordable housing is a crisis affecting Americans in all age groups, in every city, in every state. Nearly half of Americans say finding affordable housing in their community is a major problem, according to Pew Research. A case management model in Philadelphia helps a local homeless population by connecting people with the healthcare they need as well as finding them stable housing.
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Case managers are well-positioned to help prevent rehospitalization of sepsis survivors by ensuring a smooth transition to post-acute care services. They can provide follow-up to ensure patients are receiving the home health services, therapies, and primary care visits they need.
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Sepsis Patients Need Transition Support to Prevent Rehospitalization
Post-acute care is crucial for sepsis survivors. It helps patients with functional recovery and can prevent readmissions. Research suggests post-acute care services may be underused. Fewer than half the patients discharged from the hospital receive care in skilled nursing facilities, with home health services, or in long-term care facilities.
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Burning Down the House: Climate Change Drives Emerging Infections
The connection between emerging infections and climate change has gone from theoretical discussions in the past few years to an evidence-based phenomenon happening in real time. That said, there are multiple converging factors, and attributing all emerging infections to global warming is too broad a stroke to explain a complex issue.