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Within 45 days after daily multidisciplinary patient care conferences were instituted at North Fulton Regional Hospital, the hospital's average length of stay dropped by more than a day and excess days decreased by more than 300 days within the first quarter of implementation.
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Following a systemwide initiative, Catholic Healthcare Partners has reduced its average length of stay by 2%, potentially avoiding 18,000 hospital days in the multistate hospital system with headquarters in Cincinnati.
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A program that pairs new case managers with a preceptor for eight weeks and a mentor for a year has increased staff satisfaction and reduced turnover for the case management department at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC.
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For Fred Nenner, MSW, and the rest of the staff at Lutheran Medical Center in New York City, successfully returning injured immigrant patients to their family in their native country is one of the most challenging and rewarding jobs they tackle.
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"When faced with an increasing number of immigrants who don't have funding for post-acute care, hospital case managers and social workers must use their ingenuity to come up with creative options that lessen the financial burden of care," says Deborah Cruze, JD, MA, program associate, health sciences and ethics at Emory University's Center for Ethics in Atlanta.
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Would it surprise you that the number of patients leaving a hospital against medical advice (AMA) increased 39% between 1997 and 2007? The number totaled 368,000 in 2007, says a new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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Hospitals sometimes fail to transition patients to the optimal level of care, which can create issues with quality of care and reimbursement.
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At Carolinas Medical Center, the management team and a panel of case managers and social workers interview all potential employees and collaborate on who will fit best in the department.
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When hospitalists use discharge communication software, patients and the outpatient doctors who carry out the care have better perceptions of the quality of the discharge process, according to new research published in the August issue of the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
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How would you like to get more than 9,000 people to view a procedure at your facility? Methodist University Hospital in Memphis recently accomplished this feat during the live webcast of a surgical procedure.