Hospital Case Management articles from February 2009

Hospital Case Management archives from February 2009

Help patients, families cope with end-of-life situations.
February 1, 2009... Help patients, families cope with end-of-life situations As an advocate, you can help them make choices It's a situation case managers encounter with agonizing frequency: physicians who keep pumping medication into patients who are...

Get in touch with your feelings about EOL issues.(end of life)
February 1, 2009... Get in touch with your feelings about EOL issues Learn about hospice care, services in the community If you want to effectively help patients and family members with end-of-life issues, you need to examine your own feelings about death...

Throughput measures decrease LOS in ED.(emergency department)(length of stay)
February 1, 2009... Throughput measures decrease LOS in ED CMs take proactive approach to discharges Despite an increasing number of visits to the emergency department, Nyack (NY) Hospital has been able to meet its standard of 30-minute service 95% of the...

Critical Path Network: Multidisciplinary rounds at bedside involve patients, families.
February 1, 2009... Critical Path Network Multidisciplinary rounds at bedside involve patients, families Win-win situation lowers LOS, improves satisfaction After Concord (NH) Hospital's multidisciplinary cardiac care team began holding daily...

Critical Path Network: Program targets pneumonia quality measures.
February 1, 2009... Critical Path Network Program targets pneumonia quality measures Standardizing care increases cost-effectiveness A comprehensive system to ensure that patients with pneumonia receive recommended care resulted in a significant...

Make sure patients are appropriate for home care.
February 1, 2009... Make sure patients are appropriate for home care Caregivers should understand what's required In today's health care environment, case managers are under more pressure than ever to discharge patients from acute care; but before you...

Ambulatory Care Quarterly: Patient access using new Medicare noncoverage form.
February 1, 2009... Patient access using new Medicare noncoverage form Patients are given more options Patient access staff will have to get used to a change for Medicare patients, with the new Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage (ABN) form now used...

Patient access attacks ED problem 'on many fronts'.(emergency department)
February 1, 2009... Patient access attacks ED problem 'on many fronts' You can't control root causes, but you can have impact If your hospital is like most, patients admitted through the emergency department are being held, possibly in hallways, for hours...

Machine-readable cards on horizon.
February 1, 2009... Machine-readable cards on horizon The largest health plans appear to be in the process of adopting guidelines from the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) for machine-readable insurance cards, according to Peter Barry, of Peter...

CNE objectives/questions.
February 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; ...