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Children and young adults with special healthcare needs often have frequent hospitalizations and are discharged home with ever-increasing medical and technology dependencies. Hospital discharges of these children can be a complex and multistep process...
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The role of hospital case management has continued to grow from the time of its inception in the 1980s to the present. Initially, hospitals focused on the role of case management to reduce length-of-stay (LOS). Cesta (2011) identifies the early drivers of...
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Effective care transitions play a critical part in appropriate healthcare resource utilization and positive clinical, economic and patient satisfaction outcomes. Thoughtful, well-planned care transitions can help reduce length of stay (LOS), prevent...
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A recent study from the American Heart Association paints a grim picture of the pending health toll of heart failure, in addition to rapidly rising costs related to the disease. Fueled by an aging population and an increase in comorbidities...
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A pediatric quality improvement program at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center significantly improved the correct utilization of antibiotics for children presenting with pneumonia, according to a study appearing in the journal Pediatrics. The...
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The inherent design of a workplace program can have a significant effect on employee buy-in, shows a new study analyzing the impact of employer-based weight-loss programs. Researchers from the University of Michigan Medical School...
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Nurses often answer the call to action when at work, but not everyone is comfortable volunteering in the community at a disaster site. Volunteering is self-enriching, yet also promotes professional development, fosters corporate responsibility, and is a...
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According to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, one in five patients discharged from a hospital is readmitted within 30 days, costing Medicare alone an estimated $26 billion annually. To prevent this cost, the Affordable Care Act (ACA)...
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For those with a family history of Alzheimer’s disease, the likelihood of developing dementia-related brain changes – even without showing external symptoms – is far greater than for individuals without traces of the disease in their family...
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Facing a convergence of quality-based trends, including bundled payments, value-based purchasing and payment penalties for high readmission rates, hospitals are under pressure like never before to reduce readmissions. But reducing hospital readmissions is...
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One in five older patients who are discharged from the hospital, thinking they are on the road to recovery and ready to go home, will end up back in the hospital within 30 days. This can be frustrating, costly and, most of the time, avoidable. When patients...
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$26B According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, hospital readmissions within 30 days accounted for $26 billion of Medicare spending. 21% Among hospitalized patients 65 or older, 21 percent are discharged to a long-term care or other...
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Crozer-Keystone Health System (CKHS) is located minutes from Philadelphia and is the dominant provider of healthcare in Delaware County, Pa., northern Delaware, and part of western New Jersey. The population covered represents almost 1 million people...
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Case management’s existence in the history of healthcare has been relatively short. Yet even within these past several decades, notable evolution continues within the field. As case management professionals carve out a niche increasingly embraced by the...
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Welcome to the May 2013 issue of Case In Point. In this issue we cover best practices in transitions of care. According to the National Transitions of Care Coalition, the U.S. healthcare system often fails to meet the needs of patients during transitions...
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With the population aging, chronic conditions on the rise and healthcare costs spiraling higher, preventing avoidable hospital readmissions has taken on new urgency. Nearly one in five Medicare patients returns to the hospital within a month of leaving...
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This edition of Rx Pipeline, presenting the latest FDA drug approvals, has direct application to case managers and the patients they monitor. For the treatment of diabetes, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis and more, these drugs are new tools for your mission of...
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Readmissions have long been problematic with healthcare in the United States. However, despite their reoccurrence, little was done to address the issue. With the introduction of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
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Chronic illnesses have long been a debilitating condition for the millions of individuals who suffer from them and a costly, difficult-to-manage puzzle for physicians and hospitals. Recently, the launch of a new tool in the search for better care for those...
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Improving care transitions is a top priority of health plans, federal and state governments, and healthcare providers across the country. Before we can begin to analyze how to do so, we must first understand what a transition is. Transitions occur in multiple...
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