Hospital Case Management: Online

Tap into the peer-reviewed resource that brings together case managers and directors of case management nationwide to share strategies, insights, successes, and failures from inside the hospital walls and beyond. Hospital Case Management is a monthly newsletter that will give you an in-depth look at how your peers have attacked the development, implementation, and adaptation of case management programs.

Earn continuing nursing education credits while preparing your facility for the rigors of an inspection and stay in touch with the latest regulatory developments in case management. Hospital Case Management talks to the thought leaders in this important aspect of hospital administration and gives you the best of their thinking so that your hospital is always at its best.

Hospital Case Management Covers:

• Tips and techniques for discharge and transition planning
• Advice for decreasing costs, managing length of stay, improving documentation, streamlining systems, and improving patient care
• Preventing readmissions
• Management of caseloads and staffing
• Care management for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries
• Workers' comp/disability management
• Behavioral health, occupational health, and disease management
• And much more...

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Additional Benefits of Subscribing to Hospital Case Management Include:

• 12 issues annually
• 24 ANCC Contact Hours

Awards won by Hospital Case Management:

• Third place, Best Interpretative or Analytical Reporting, Specialized Information Publishers Association, 2013

Faculty

Consulting Editor:

Toni G. Cesta, PhD, RN, FAAN,
Partner and Consultant,
Case Management Concepts, LLC,
North Bellmore, NY

Kay Ball, PhD, RN, CNOR, CMLSO, FAAN
Consultant/Educator
Adjunct Professor, Nursing
Otterbein University
Westerville, OH

Beverly Cunningham, RN, MS
Partner and Consultant
Case Management Concepts, LLC
Dallas

Teresa C. Fugate, RN, CCM, CPHQ
Case Management Consultant
Knoxville, TN

BK Kizziar, RNC, CCM, CLCP
Case Management Consultant/Life Care Planner
BK & Associates
Southlake, TX

Sandra L. Lowery, RN, BSN, CRRN, CCM
President
CCMI Associates
Humboldt, AZ

Patrice Spath, RHIT
Consultant
Health Care Quality
Brown-Spath & Associates
Forest Grove, OR

Donna Zazworsky, RN, MS, CCM, FAAN
Consultant
Zazworsky Consulting
Tucson, AZ

Objectives:

• Identify the particular clinical, administrative, regulatory, or social issues related to the profession of case management.
• Describe how the clinical, administrative, regulatory, or social issues particular to the profession of case management affect patients, case managers, hospitals or the healthcare industry at large.
• Discuss solutions to the problems facing case managers based on independent recommendations from clinicians at individual institutions or other authorities.

Target Audience

This education activity is intended for case managers, nurses, and nurse practitioners in the hospital case management environment.

Accreditation and Credit Designation:

In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

2 ANCC contact hours will be awarded to participants who meet the criteria for successful completion

This program has been pre-approved by The Commission for Case Manager Certification to provide hours of continuing education credit to CCM® board certified case managers.

Note: CCMC Pre-Approved Hours granted may vary based on each month's newsletter word count - CCMC Pre-Approval is only valid during the first 12 months of release for a new published newsletter, beginning on the 1st day of the month of the newsletter (Example: January edition will not award CCMC hours until January 1st).

Expiration

This activity is in effect for 36 months from the date of the publication.

Instructions For Participation

Nurses participate in this CE activity by reading the issues, using the provided references for further research and studying the questions at the end of each issue. Participants will then be directed to a website, where they will complete an online assessment to show what they've learned. They must score 100 on the assessment in order to complete the activity, but they are allowed to answer the questions multiple times if needed. After they have successfully completed the assessment and an evaluation, they will receive their credit letter.