Beginning this year, CMS is paying hospitals a bonus or extracting a penalty depending on the quality of care they deliver. Hospitals administrators know that the difference between getting more and ...

Raise your hand if you can’t wait to be admitted to a convalescent home someday? For years I have been asking this question from the stage. And no one has come forward yet. In addition, hospitals & ...

Review the skill sets that are critical for case managers to possess that go beyond those of the traditional staff nurse role. Not all nurses can be successful case managers. Case managers must ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- About four dozen hospital workers at The Queen's Medical Center- Punchbowl, are currently working without a contract. It expired at the end of August for nearly 50 case ...

This systematic review found that studies of case management interventions have adequate quality and, in many cases, show cost-effective or even cost-saving results. Results: A total of 29 studies ...

Throughout the past 40+ years, the degree of risk and the time involved with discharge planning for hospital patients has risen to a new level of complexity. It used to be patients were able to ...

DENVER (KDVR) — As Denver’s second COVID-19 surge sends hospitals scrambling to find room for ICU patients, case managers become only more critical, serving as conduits between patients and loved ones ...