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When Hiring and Training Nurses, the Smart Focus Is on Soft Skills
Nursing in the 21st century requires exceptional technical and organizational skills. A lot must be handled in short bursts of time. But sometimes this focus has overlooked the soft skills that also are necessary.
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Tips for Finding the Appropriate Software Solution for Your ASC
Surgery centers should look beyond the sticker price before selecting an information technology solution.
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Taking Time to Find the Right Technology Benefits ASCs
Legislation helped hospitals and physician practices purchase electronic solutions, but surgery centers were left out of the financial incentives. Fewer surgery centers use electronic medical records and other technological solutions, partly because of that omission, but this trend is changing.
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Creating a Smoke-Free Environment for Your Operating Room
Any surgery center can create a smoke-free OR at a relatively low cost when compared with the long-term health and workplace impact of surgical smoke.
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Surgery’s Not-So-Secret Problem: Operating Room Smoke Is Hurting Nurses’ Health
For more than three decades, safety advocates have warned of the serious health dangers caused by surgical smoke. There is a simple solution that involves installing smoke evacuation devices in operating rooms (ORs). Still, the problem persists because of a lack of urgency among regulators and OR leadership.
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How to Find the Ideal Case Management Staffing Level
No matter what size a hospital and case management department are, there are difficulties in finding the right level of staffing. There is no one-size-fits-all approach because each hospital has its own expectations and sensitive situations in which case management might be needed. The goal should be to have case managers work to the full capacity of their skills and abilities.
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ED Case Managers Can Help Improve Transitions and Outcomes
Case managers in the ED can perform more than utilization reviews. In a newer model for their role, case managers can help put ED patients in touch with resources, helping them avoid readmissions and improve outcomes. Cleveland Clinic realized that with the changing landscape of healthcare, there is a way care management can put patients in touch with the community services they need to stay out of the hospital and ED. Case managers based in the ED can help patients with whatever they will need when they are well enough to leave.
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Case Management Dashboard Can Improve Patient Outcomes
Hospitals and other healthcare organizations can improve patient navigation, quality, and efficiency by creating goals and a plan through data collection and a dashboard. Health systems are successfully using analytics to engage with electronic medical records and in creating roadmaps for patients. Electronic data collection helps health systems predict roadblocks more accurately. It also helps facilitate faster transitions.
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Centralized Utilization Review: Key Considerations for Successful Implementation
As hospitals grapple with ever-changing utilization review (UR) guidelines from CMS and consolidate with other facilities, many are centralizing their UR operations. Under a centralized model, an offsite UR nurse or case manager is alerted when a new patient is admitted and sees all the documentation necessary to determine whether the medical record supports the patient’s status. Centralized UR establishes a standardized common process across facilities, which is a key benefit for multihospital health systems.
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CMS Update: Outpatient Total Knee, Hip Arthroplasty
To provide patients with better value and results, CMS has issued a final rule regarding the inpatient-only list of surgical procedures. This list includes procedures that typically are only provided in the inpatient setting and not paid under the Outpatient Prospective Payment System. Criteria for removing procedure from the inpatient-only list includes determining that the procedure is performed in numerous hospitals on an outpatient basis. For example, total knee arthroplasty moved from the list starting in 2018. Total hip arthroplasty is expected to be removed from the list in 2020.