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In todays tight nursing labor market, case management directors must find ways to keep staff from seeking greener pastures. The cost of hiring and training new employees is significant. Thats why it is important for directors to motivate and retain quality staff whenever possible.
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Before the case management department at Northeast Medical Center in Concord, NC, launched an initiative to cut down on denials, the hospitals rate of avoidable days was as high as 12%. Now, 2½ years later, avoidable days have dropped to 8%.
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There are two angles of attack to cutting catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) rates by 25%, and the harder approach involves changing provider behavior.
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Home care is an important intervention to consider for virtually every patient you discharge to home. By using the strategies discussed above, you can increase your percentage of patients going home with this important service. Remember to assess every patient on admission and to reassess every patient daily.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has made a one-time offer to hospitals to settle pending appeals of patient status claim denials for 68% of the net payable amount.
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Many families spend more time and energy researching the best microwave oven to buy than they spend choosing a post-acute facility for their loved ones
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Before you can give patients the information they need to make a good decision, you need to know something about the facilities on the list you give the patients.
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The Medicare Conditions of Participation require hospitals to give patients a choice of post-acute providers, but that doesn’t mean that case managers shouldn’t give them the information they need to make informed choices.
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Montefiore Medical Center’s collaboration with five skilled nursing facilities on improving transitions has resulted in a drop in 30-day readmission rates to 15%.
