Case Management Advisor articles from February 2009

Case Management Advisor archives from February 2009

Unique model provides disease management to home care patients.
February 1, 2009... Unique model provides disease management to home care patients New approach to delivering care includes face-to-face interventions When the home health nurses at Little Rock, AR-based Baptist Health Home Health Network began observing...

Program helps employees learn to stay healthy.
February 1, 2009... Program helps employees learn to stay healthy Face-to-face encounters, telehealth keys to success An overweight nurse with diabetes who works for Little Rock, AR-based Baptist Health System summed up the key to the success of the 2020...

Program cuts medication costs for hep C patients.
February 1, 2009... Program cuts medication costs for hep C patients CMs focus on appropriate management of the diseases In the first year of a disease management program to promote effective treatment for hepatitis C, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee...

Faith-based programs help Medicaid members.
February 1, 2009... Faith-based programs help Medicaid members Initiative aims to reduce health care disparities African-American women with diabetes showed significant health improvements after participating in Keystone Mercy Health Plan's "40-Day...

Capture patients' attention with a photonovela.
February 1, 2009... Capture patients' attention with a photonovela Creativity, collaboration key to success People in health education are beginning to use a literature genre called a photonovela. This genre tells a picture story and is designed like a...

Photonovela to educate on nutrition.
February 1, 2009... Photonovela to educate on nutrition ESL speakers create copy that is easy to understand A photonovela became a master's project for Laura Nimmon, MA, a doctoral fellow with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada...

Photonovela to be introduced to Appalachia.
February 1, 2009... Photonovela to be introduced to Appalachia Part of toolkit, new teaching opportunity provided A photonovela is part of the diabetes tool kit Sharon A. Denham, RN, DSN, professor of nursing at Ohio University School of Nursing in Athens...

CE objectives/questions.(continuing education)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... CE objectives After reading this issue, continuing education participants will be able to: *Identify clinical, legal, legislative, regulatory, financial, and social issues relevant to case management. *Explain how those issues...