Case Management Advisor – March 1, 2006
March 1, 2006
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With wide variety of organizations to join, which do you choose?
Case managers have a lot of choices when it comes to what professional organizations to join and which certifications to pursue. There are a wide variety of organizations on the local, state, and national levels, along with several case management certifications. -
Program screens members for postpartum depression
Members of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Missouris Postpartum Depression Screening Program consistently give the St. Louis-based health plan patient satisfaction scores in the 90th percentile. -
Program helps young asthmatics control disease
In the first six months of Keystone Mercy Health Plans Healthy Hoops program, which combines basketball and asthma management, the percentage of children in the program with an emergency department visit for asthma fell 26%, the percentage of children with a hospital admission decreased by 8%, and nighttime awakenings decreased by 70% among program participants. -
Not every injury/illness requires time off
Occupational health professionals are constantly looking for ways to improve return to work (RTW) for injured or ill employees, but there has been little in the way of research into what makes disability leave, RTW, and stay at work (SAW) plans work or fail. -
Study: Fewer heart deaths when QI efforts are made
Heart failure patients are less likely to die after they go home from the hospital if the hospital has participated in an organized quality improvement program, compared with patients treated at hospitals where such efforts arent undertaken, a new study from the University of Michigan Health System finds. -
Self-audit hospice program to identify risk areas
Its been more than six years since the Office of Inspector General (OIG) published its compliance program guidance for hospices, listing 28 areas in which hospices are particularly vulnerable to fraud and abuse.