Expand Your Case Management Team’s Reach

Developing relationships with care providers across the continuum gets it done.

Improving case managers’ relationship skills can make the job easier

Case managers can add to their skill set of communication and care coordination by focusing on relationship-building.

Health system’s case manager-led team improves care coordination

In efforts to develop a robust primary care network, a large healthcare organization has embedded case managers in primary care practices.

Help wanted: CBO to screen patients for benefits

When a hospital identifies that a number of patients have need for food assistance that has not been met, a quick fix is to partner with a community-based organization to meet that need.

Health system screens all patients for suicide risk

In what appears to be a first for a health system, Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas recently implemented suicide screenings for all patients.

The sick treating the sick: HCWs pressured to work ill

Employee health professionals must work with clinical colleagues to develop clear, supportive policies that clarify when ill healthcare workers should take a sick day rather than expose vulnerable patients and co-workers, researchers recommend.