Hospital Case Management articles from February 2002

Hospital Case Management archives from February 2002

Understanding the keys to effective case management training: community hospitals takes module-based approach.
February 1, 2002... Whatever the goals of your case management department, your success depends largely on the quality of the training given to new as well as existing case managers. At Community Hospitals in Indianapolis, training is rigorous and very...

Hospital improves joint replacement discharges: preoperative patient education, assessment are key.
February 1, 2002... Several years ago, administrators at Sutter Medical Center Sacramento (SMCS) in California realized that only 2% of patients undergoing elective joint replacement were being discharged home. Today, that number stands at 60%. The greatest...

Technologies save case managers time and money: discharge tracking, pre-certification addressed.
February 1, 2002... Case managers struggling with everything from pre-certification to tracking patient discharges should take note of several expanding technologies that could help save considerable amounts of time and money. VoiCert software One...

Knock the wind out of asthma with Asthma CareWay. (Critical Path Network[TM]).
February 1, 2002... Asthma is the most common chronic illness in children and adolescents, affecting about 5 million youngsters under the age of 18 in the United States, including more than one million children under the age of 5. Asthma is the second leading...

Relive Saint Vincents' experience in audio replay.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... On Sept. 11, Saint Vincents hospital in Manhattan, NY, a Level 1 trauma center located two miles from the World Trade Center, found itself at the center of an unthinkable tragedy. A Code Three was called after two hijacked airliners slammed...

Hospitals get help with veterans' bills.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced that it will begin reimbursing non-VA hospitals for emergency care when it's obvious that a delay in care would be hazardous to the veteran's health and when no other VA or federal facility...

JCAHO offers disease-specific care certification.(Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Beginning this month, hospitals, health systems, and other health care organizations can become certified for disease-specific care by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in the development of its new...

Reader questions: audits motivate documentation: effective form just the first step. (Patient Education Quarterly).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Question: "What have you done to improve documentation of patient education? What have been your most successful methods for improvement? How do you monitor compliance numbers, and what do you do if those numbers begin to slip?" Answer: It...

Feedback tool improves staff documentation: serves as an effective reminder.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... To provide feedback on documentation compliance, nurses in Orthopedic Services at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, WA, are given a sheet that shows them the areas in which they need improvement each time charts are audited. The...

OIG sounds alarm on transfer coding errors: overpayments amount to nearly $233 million.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Numerous hospitals continue to incorrectly report prospective payment system (PPS) transfers as discharges, and that has translated into potential overpayments of nearly $233 million, warns the Department of Health and Human Services Office of...

CE questions.
February 1, 2002... Please save your monthly issues with the CE questions in order to take the two semester tests in the June and December issues. A Scantron sheet will be inserted in those issues, but the questions will not be repeated. 5. Which of the...