Hospital Case Management articles from April 2009

Hospital Case Management archives from April 2009

Get patient status correct up front to avoid financial repercussions.
April 1, 2009... Get patient status correct up front to avoid financial repercussions Inappropriate status hurts patients as well as the facility As hospitals experience an increasing number of audits for medical necessity of admission, it's more...

What's appropriate for observation?
April 1, 2009... What's appropriate for observation? Here are some tips for determining the correct status According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), observation services are "a well-defined set of specific clinically appropriate...

Status determined before bed assignment.
April 1, 2009... Status determined before bed assignment UR nurses, physicians work together to get it correct Before a patient at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center is registered or assigned to a room, a utilization review nurse in the...

Critical Path Network: Six Sigma project improves documentation of patient status.
April 1, 2009... Critical Path Network Six Sigma project improves documentation of patient status Initiative includes standardized admission process, better communication A Six Sigma project to improve documentation of patient status has resulted...

Critical Path Network: ED slashes average wait time by more than an hour.
April 1, 2009... Critical Path Network ED slashes average wait time by more than an hour Team studies facilities, creates own model No ED cuts its average door-to-doc time from 93 minutes to 20 minutes by accident. The success story at Memorial...

Critical Path Network: ED's turnaround time cut by almost 30 minutes.
April 1, 2009... Critical Path Network ED's turnaround time cut by almost 30 minutes Process 'pulls' patients out of waiting area By implementing a Lean process change that it calls TAPP (Team Assessment Pull Process), the ED leadership in the...

Critical Path Network: Break down these barriers to medication safety.
April 1, 2009... Critical Path Network Break down these barriers to medication safety Take an in-depth look at your own ED A patient's chart is unavailable. Verbal orders are not yet written in the patient's chart. The identification bracelet is...

RNs, LCSWs cross-trained to work as case managers.
April 1, 2009... RNs, LCSWs cross-trained to work as case managers One person is go-to for patient, family, insurer When Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center redesigned its case management function, merging the social work, utilization review,...

Palliative care gets patients to right care level.
April 1, 2009... Palliative care gets patients to right care level Consult team works closely with case managers At Summa Health System, hospital case managers, called patient care coordinators, often are the first people to alert the palliative care...

CNE objectives/questions.
April 1, 2009... CNE objectives After reading each issue of Hospital Case Management, the nurse will be able to do the following: *identify particular clinical, administrative, or regulatory issues related to the profession of case management; ...