Articles Tagged With: management
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Systolic and Diastolic Heart Failure
Acute decompensated heart failure is a serious condition that presents in the emergency department and the intensive care unit. The causes of heart failure are multifactorial, making it, at times, difficult to diagnose and treat.
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2016 Surviving Sepsis Guidelines Update
The Surviving Sepsis Campaign recently published an update to the 2012 guidelines for management of sepsis and septic shock. The document incorporates literature published through July 2016.
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Ready for Dengue in the United States?
Dengue is increasingly recognized in the southern United States. When recently surveyed, however, clinicians in Texas seemed incompletely prepared to understand and manage patients with dengue.
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Your Most Expensive Asset Might Be at Risk
I enjoy writing about issues that affect all of us in the surgery industry, from freestanding ambulatory surgery centers to hospital-based to office-based.
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Case Management-Revenue Cycle Partnership Pays Off
At Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford, CT, the revenue cycle team is a strong partner of case management, reports Beth A. Greig, RN, MSN, MBA, ACM, director of case management, healthcare value, and efficiency at the 617-bed hospital.
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Case Managers are Link Between Clinical, Financial Sides
Today’s hospitals have to perform a balancing act between the clinical and financial sides of healthcare, focusing on providing top-quality care while following payers’ ever-changing rules and regulations and maintaining the bottom line.
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Staff Members Asked For, and Received, More ‘Face Time’ With Managers
The most recent employee satisfaction survey at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN, revealed that patient access staff wanted more communication from management.
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Risk Management Falls Under Criticism After a Patient is Forcibly Removed
Risk management at a Florida hospital was cited as insufficient in the state investigation following a high publicized incident in which a patient was forcibly removed, and the state rejected the hospital’s corrective action plan.
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Incomes on the rise after being flat for six years
Incomes in healthcare risk management are inching upward after six years of stagnation. The jump isn’t much, but at least the trend is in the right direction.
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Risks increasing, but risk managers are losing traction in hospitals
At a time when the risks to hospitals and health systems are on the increase, some healthcare risk managers feel as though they are being pushed to the sidelines and their responsibilities delegated among other hospital administrators, says Leilani Kicklighter, a patient safety and risk management consultant with The Kicklighter Group in Tamarac, FL, and a past president of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management in Chicago.