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Northwest Michigan Surgery Center in Traverse City was able to increase its coffers by that mount by renegotiating insurance contracts and carving out implants for underreimbursed cases. Jim Stilley, FACHE, CASC, CEO at the ambulatory surgery center (ASC).
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A primary focus of outpatient surgery managers used to be the bottom line. Now many are finding themselves aiming to succeed at the "triple bottom line": people, planet, and profit, says Ravindra Gupta, MD, hospitalist and co-chair of the Sustainability Committee, Inova Health System in Falls Church, VA.
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Case managers are more experienced and are putting in longer hours than ever before, but aren't necessarily getting more compensation for it, according to the results of the 2009 Case Management Advisor Salary Survey.
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These days, many workers have a high amount of anxiety over job security, with good reason. Now, a new study shows this poses a major threat to worker health.
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Avoid trouble with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) by never doing any of the following things after a worksite injury occurs, warns Mary (Penny) B. Nicholls, RN, CCM, COHN-S, a disability consultant with Alabama Power Company in Birmingham and a member of the advisory board for the Deep South Center for Occupational Health & Safety at the University of Alabama at Birmingham:
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Since employees with medical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer often have co-morbid mental conditions, it makes sense to screen these workers for depression, says Nancy W. Spangler, MS, OTR/L, a consultant to the Partnership for Workplace Mental Health and president of Leawood, KS-based Spangler Associates Inc.
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If an employee is newly diagnosed with diabetes, he or she would likely be able to obtain a significant amount of resources for prevention, screening, and treatment of this condition. Would this also be true if that employee suffered from depression?
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Case managers went to nursing school to take care of people, something they find themselves doing less and less in most practice settings, Catherine Mullahy, RN, BS, CRRN, CCM, points out.
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Now is a good time to be a case manager, leaders in the field report. New opportunities are opening up for case managers as the country struggles with ways to provide optimal health care for everyone while minimizing soaring costs for care.
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Getting employees to commit to hour-long workouts at the gym might be expecting the impossible in many cases. However, new research shows that short bouts of exercise also have significant benefits.