Care coordination is becoming increasingly important in U.S. healthcare for a variety of reasons, including the increased use of value-based care models, the behavioral care shortage and a boom in ...
With post-acute and behavioral health demands increasing, policymakers should help skilled nursing providers leverage five ...
Some may ask the question, “What does a care coordinator do for my personal well-being?” There is no short answer as to what a patient can benefit from by receiving assistance from a care coordinator.
Hospitals participating in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Quality initiative have had success reducing inappropriate emergency department use, according to an RWJF issue ...
Holston Medical Group has been able to reduce emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and readmissions. A Tennessee-based physician group is utilizing care coordination and patient outreach to ...
Care coordination and patient identification represent two of the greatest challenges in health care. Finding the right patients and providing a catalyst for change in their behavior and how they are ...
In the hospital setting, care coordination often starts in the emergency department, this CMO says. Care coordination is an important consideration for CMOs because patients often interact with ...
The ongoing shift to value-based care has placed a significant emphasis on provider performance and outcomes. But with clinical staffing shortages near all-time highs, delivering the right care at the ...
To improve the care coordination competency of nurses involved in the management of critically ill patients on life support, an electronic app - NCCCS - was developed by Associate Professor Chie ...
A new survey examining how U.S. hospitals are addressing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 30-day readmission penalties found that most facilities agree on what core strategies work the ...
Jeffrey Turner, MD, and Nihar R. Desai, MD, MPH, discuss coordination of care between specialties, and Om P. Ganda, MD, provides insight into the goals of therapy and population health outcomes in ...
Routine Blood Tests in Asymptomatic Patients With Indolent Lymphoma Have Limited Ability to Detect Clinically Significant Disease Progression Fig 1. Cancer care multiteam system. A specialized ...