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After Southeast Alabama Medical Center in Dothan began a heart failure readmission prevention program, its 30-day readmission rate dropped to an average of 13%. In January, the hospital discharged 62 heart failure patients and only 8% were readmitted.
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When patients benefits have been maxed out or are close to being maxed out, case managers need to be creative with discharge planning, experts say.
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Bioethicists can advocate for improved communication with family caregivers when a patient is going to be discharged from the hospital.
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When BK Kizziar, RN-BC, CCM, was in the hospital following surgery, a case manager walked into her room the day before discharge and asked whether she wanted to go to an acute rehab facility or have physical therapy sessions at home.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to investigate outbreaks as a result of unsafe injection practices
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At the American College of Surgeons annual quality conference in New York in July, surgeons outlined some of the gains that data from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) database has helped them achieve.
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Patient- and family-centered care is at the heart of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), says Deborah Maurer, RN, MBA, administrator, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Transplant Services.
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Serious reportable events the words can send a shiver up the spine of a quality professional, and any healthcare professionals who are present when such events occur.
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A short study in the July issue of the Journal of Hospital Medicine1 may change handoffs forever. For the first time, a tool created to judge the quality of how one physician passes the baton to another has been validated as effective.
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There has long been a hole in the data collected on joint replacements: Patient-reported outcomes over an extended period of time were missing.