Case Management Advisor articles from April 2003

Case Management Advisor archives from April 2003

Care management for seniors likely to tax health care system: get ready for the wave of aging baby boomers.
April 1, 2003... Those baby boomers are doing it again. After dominating the job market, revolutionizing the music and entertainment scene, and setting American culture on its ear for all those years, they're going to create major challenges to the health...

Helping elderly deal with costs of long-term care: use ingenuity to find community services.
April 1, 2003... When elderly people need long-term care for themselves or their loved ones, they often experience "sticker shock" when they find out the cost. Many senior citizens believe that all benefits are free for the elderly, points out Carole...

Involve patient, family in care plan for elderly: case managers often deal with crisis situation.
April 1, 2003... By the time people come to case managers for geriatric care management, they already have dealt with the system and have a lot of frustrations and misinformation. "Families usually turn to geriatric case managers when they are in crisis....

Help family with options for elderly member: don't expect to find a win-win situation.
April 1, 2003... When an elderly person can no longer live at home without assistance, it helps if the family can look at all the pros and cons of every scenario, Elizabeth Bodie Gross, FNP, MBA, CCM suggests. "Most of the time, people see only the pros,...

Social CM workers aid in care coordination: program is popular with patients, hospitals.
April 1, 2003... Hospital visits by social case management consultants have paid off for Horizon/Mercy of Trenton, NJ, the state's largest managed care organization serving the publicly insured. "We can look at data three months to six months before the...

Social workers facilitate discharge process: community resources can help prevent readmission.
April 1, 2003... A visit from a Horizon/Mercy social worker often is the only visit that many of the health plan members get while they're in the hospital. "It's tough having a disease that disables you and that you know you'll have to deal with for the...

Disease management pays off for insurer: plan saves on medical costs for chronic illnesses.
April 1, 2003... A comprehensive disease management program has netted savings of 6% to 7% of medical costs for the conditions included in CIGNA Health Care's Well Aware disease management program. The program, with more than 500,000 participants across the...

DM nurses, CMs provide seamless care: patients transitioned from DM to CM and back.
April 1, 2003... Disease management is a fluid process that often involves transitioning patients from the disease management team to case management for more intensive interventions, says Pam Mays, MPH, BSRN, RN, assistant vice president for care management of...

Get buy-in from the entire organization beforehand: choose outside vendors carefully for best success.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... For a disease management program to be successful, everyone in your organization must be committed to it and willing to invest the considerable money and other resources it will take to make the program a success, Pam Mays, MPH, BSRN, RN, says....

Determine your allegiance prior to accepting job: reconciling advocacy and transparency.
April 1, 2003... As a case manager, you are well accustomed to working in a number of roles. However, those roles can become complex when your patient advocate role does not mesh with the obligations you have to your employer. Case in point: You discover...

CE questions.
April 1, 2003... For more information about the CE program, please contact customer service at (800) 688-2421; e-mail: customerservice@ahcpub.com. 13. In 20 years, 70 million older Americans will have an average of how many chronic illnesses, according to...