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Hospital discharge planners must use their ingenuity to find a discharge destination for undocumented workers who need post-acute care.
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While the amount of money Medicare spends on chronically ill patients varies greatly from state to state, researchers at Dartmouth Medical School found no correlation between higher spending and better health.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will extend coverage for the home use of oxygen to Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in a CMS-approved clinical trial sponsored by the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute.
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Having a dedicated social worker who works with local homeless shelters to place patients has significantly reduced the length of stay for homeless patients at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia.
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A new rule being proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and drawing criticism from case managers who have reviewed it would require hospitals to alert all Medicare patients 24 hours before discharge that their costs probably won't be covered if they stay longer, and that they have until noon the next day to request a review of the discharge decision.
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When older, frail patients are hospitalized at Akron City Hospital in Akron, OH, they're likely to be placed on a home-like unit with carpeted floors, a common area with a parlor and a stocked kitchen their families can use, better lighting, and furniture designed so older people can easily get in and out of it.
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In the process of collecting restraint data, you learn that certain physicians are not signing daily orders. Other data being collected show that patient education is being documented 97 times out of 100.
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Health services is the largest private industry sector in the United States, but being trained in health and safety did not prevent that group from being the most-injured group of workers in 2002 more health care workers were hurt on the job that year than construction workers and miners combined.
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Billing data, supply costs, staff costs, and patient satisfaction are top issues for all outpatient surgery managers, but benchmark studies that address these areas don't always focus on similar procedures so that comparisons can be made easily.