Recruiting and retaining talent is similar to growing a garden. It takes forethought, time, and effort.
Let's dig in and review three types of talent-gardening as it applies to growing your case management team.
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Understanding and implementing the case manager role and functions successfully into acute care at home will help advance the care model.
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Use the Daily Essentials Checklist as a tool or reminder of tasks that need to be accomplished that day. Download the Daily Essentials Checklist and start using today.
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There are four primary strategies that produce positive outcomes in attaining cost-effective care, improved patient outcomes, and a bolstered patient experience regardless of the level of care. This Insight explores those four care coordination strategies.
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Significant changes in healthcare are in the future, thus requiring leaders and teams to be poised and ready for the transformation.
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At Integrated Care Strategists, we live, play, and work by our values. Our values provide the foundation for our mission, business model, and consulting services.
Read MoreCare coordination is central to patient experience and mitigating health issues.
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Case Management can accelerate the organization’s overall revenue recovery strategy while enriching care coordination for the future.
Read MoreWhile written for plans and insurers, there are essential aspects for Case Management team to know and understand as it relates to coverage and effective dates for ordered items and services intended to diagnose or treat the coronavirus.
Read MoreCase Management teams can use these waivers to complete their daily functions. These specific waivers will ease the burdens related to staffing and provide safety measures to minimize their exposure to the virus. As always, consult with your Compliance or Legal team.
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It becomes incumbent upon us as healthcare providers and workers to understand the importance of the power of positive, plain language in our profession.
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The goal is to find out who can be safely discharged today and potentially discharged tomorrow.
Read MoreThis survey found 61% of Americans admitted to being lonely in 2019 as compared to 58% in 2018.
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Stewardship. What is the relationship between stewardship and case management?
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As a leader of people, my passion has been educating and mentoring. Over the years, I have mentored (and oriented) several new managers to Case Management (including Utilization Management and Social Work).
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As Case Managers and leaders of Case Management, we are charged with being good stewards for the patients and hospital. While there are numerous areas to consider, one aspect of being a good steward is minding the finances for both parties.
Read MorePromoting partnerships outside the hospital can enhance a case management department’s effectiveness particularly as it relates to coordinating the patient’s care while in the hospital and post hospital.
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Daily case managers and social workers strive to meet the needs of the patients and families, treatment team, and hospital. Therefore, it is essential that we as leaders give them the tools to excel and recognize them for their endeavors.
Read MoreI would advocate a grassroots approach to social determinants of health (SDOH). By that I mean starting where we work and with our team to create awareness.
Read MoreBundle payments. Value-based care. Population health. SDOH. Patient engagement. Patient centric care. Transitions of Care. Standardization. Systemness. Integrated delivery system. Readmission risk score. Predictive analytics. Patient progression.
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