Hospital Case Management

Health System’s Integrated Care Program Is a People-Centered Strategy

Two Midwestern health systems exemplify the emerging new strategy of coordinating integrated care systems to improve patient care and reduce hospital and ED readmissions.

Plan of Care Collaboration Can Reduce Readmissions

Hospital case managers are part of a care team collaboration that spans healthcare settings and disciplines, focusing on improving patient care and preventing high-risk patients from being readmitted to the hospital.

A Closer Look at Trinity Health’s Integrated Care Coordination System

Care coordinators can help hospitals better manage care through an integrated system that provides best practices in the handover process.

Case Managers Can Drive Success in Hospitals

Hospitals are moving from the traditionally reactive to newer proactive model of providing quality healthcare. This puts case managers in the driver’s seat when it comes to steering the organization to better outcomes.

Study Targets Causes of 30-Day Rehospitalizations

A new study has identified some of the most common physiological reasons for 30-day unplanned rehospitalizations among heart failure patients — making it possible for case managers and others to develop interventions and strategies to address this problem.

Helping Human Trafficking Victims: Is Your Staff Prepared?

A forensic wants to help hospital staff recognize trafficking victims and establish hospital protocols that protect and aid a victim’s escape from the trafficking coercion.

First Steps to Help a Trafficking Victim

To ensure patient and staff safety, each organization should develop a protocol for human trafficking that includes staff training; multidisciplinary approach; screening and identification; mandatory reporting; follow-through procedures.

Making Progress to Reduce Overtreatment

Excess screenings, scans, and treatments that offered little or no benefit were being prescribed at an estimated $210 billion a year, according to a 2013 report.