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Payers are moving toward longitudinal or value-based care across the care continuum, but health systems are lagging in building an infrastructure for this newer model.
End-of-life discussions with patients and families can be difficult. It is the elephant in the room that physicians, case managers, and other healthcare professionals hesitate to discuss.
Hospital case managers should be alert to the risk of their patients suffering from loneliness and social isolation. These conditions can worsen mental and physical health outcomes for patients and are fairly commonplace among older populations.
In healthcare, life comes at you fast — and case managers may struggle to handle it all. That is when it pays to bring up the adage, “Control what you can, accept the rest.”
Case managers often encounter inefficiencies in their daily work due to poor communication and lack of actionable data. As one health system has learned, this obstacle can be eliminated with the right data metrics and dynamic dashboard.
Financial Disclosure: Author Melinda Young, Author Jeanie Davis, Editor Jill Drachenberg, Editor Jesse Saffron, Editorial Group Manager Terrey L. Hatcher, and Nurse Planner Toni Cesta, PhD, RN, FAAN, report no consultant, stockholder, speaker’s bureau, research, or other financial relationships with companies having ties to this field of study.
