Hospital Case Management
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Controversy Erupts Over Expansion of Medical Assistance in Dying
Ethical controversy has erupted over Canada’s expansion of eligibility criteria for medical assistance in dying.
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Clinicians Are Ethically Obligated to Consider Financial Side of Care
Clinicians should include the cost of care in discussions, help patients access charity care or financial counseling, and screen patients for social determinants of health.
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Data Indicate Hospital Stays Are Longer, Causing Discharge Delays
As patients wait longer to take the next step along their journey through the healthcare continuum, costs mount for providers.
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Primary Care Is on Life Support, But Case Management Could Be Antidote
Primary care is facing decline due to financial factors and clinician burnout. One solution is to assign case managers or care coordinators to primary care offices to improve communication between primary care providers, hospitals, and other healthcare entities.
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Better Care Coordination Needed for Interhospital Transfers
Interhospital transfers can be challenging and frustrating for nursing staff — and sometimes dangerous and tragic for patients and their families. Health systems should pay more attention to how these transfers are handled and work to improve communication between sending and receiving hospitals.
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Possible Solutions to Poor Interhospital Transfers
Interhospital transfers can be frustrating to nurses and lead to worse outcomes for patients, research shows. But hospitals can take steps to improve the process and reduce risks for patients. The first step is to eliminate unnecessary transfers.
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Intensive Care Management Works with Complex Medicaid Population
One way to reduce costs among a population of high-cost, high-utilization Medicaid patients is to use intensive care management. In a study of an intervention involving a nonprofit organization that provides integrated care to complex patients, investigators found a reduction of more than $1,900 in total medical expense per member per month.
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ACO’s Comprehensive Patient Navigation Can Reduce Costs, Increase Satisfaction
Surprisingly, accountable care organization enrollees who are given fewer choices but better navigation assistance in making decisions are happier with their healthcare access, researchers found.
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Case Managers Can Better Educate Patients and Families About Opioid Addiction
While the world focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, another crisis — the opioid epidemic — continued to unfold, taking hundreds of thousands of lives. Hospital discharge is an opportunity for case managers and other providers to help prevent patients from becoming victims of opioid overdoses.
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Best Practices for Maternity Case Management
In many ways, case management in the maternity and labor/delivery units is unlike other areas of the hospital. Often, the mothers and babies are healthy, and simply in need of support through the process. For that reason, it may even seem that case management is unnecessary. However, it is important to maintain a strong case management department that serves in labor and delivery as well as the postpartum units.