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Occupational back injuries are an ongoing hazard in health care, particularly among nurses who have to move patients and perform other tasks that could cause injury.
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Hospitals have long been at the forefront of hiring salaried and hourly staff from other continents. This trend becomes more apparent during periods of nursing and physician labor shortages.
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Health care workers are more stressed than workers in any other industry, a recent survey found.
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A majority of U.S. hospitals has achieved the Healthy People 2020 goal of vaccinating at least 90% of their employees against influenza, but they have struggled to track the vaccinations of doctors, advanced practice nurses and physician assistants.
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At University of Utah Health Care, a transition case manager acts as a liaison between the outpatient care team at community clinics and the inpatient care team.
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Even if the patient standing in front of you obtained coverage on the Health Insurance Exchange Marketplace, the claim still could end up being denied.
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Weekly extended stay rounds help move along patients who have issues and barriers to a timely discharge, experts say.
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It seems that every year case managers are asked to take on more and more roles and functions. Every time a new rule or regulation comes out from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), administrators turn to case management as the group to take the new problem or task on. This translates to more work!
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Multidisciplinary rounds are a good way to improve throughput, reduce length of stay and readmissions, and improve patient satisfaction, experts say.
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Patient access leaders at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston created a visual tool in 2013 to help staff to determine the correct payer.