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Best Practices
Professional Case Managers as Exemplars Using the Quadruple Aim as a Measurement Framework for Quality Care
BY PATRICIA NOONAN, RN, MBA, CCM, FCM The impetus for quality care led by a national call to action to achieve…
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Care Coordination
Collaboration, Communication, Coordination: Moving to Build Consensus for Change
BY CHERI LATTIMER, RN, BSN The issues today surrounding changing healthcare models, diversity, equity and inclusion, technology advancement, policy directives, performance…
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Care Coordination
COVID-19: Impacting Hospital Readmission With Focused Care Transition Calls
BY KATHLEEN (KATHY) PARRY, BSN, RN, CCM The past 2 years have turned the healthcare industry upside down. The COVID-19 epidemic…
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Regulatory issues
The Regulations and Finances Behind Readmissions
BY RONALD HIRSCH, MD, FACP, CHCQM, CHRI Readmissions are on every hospital’s radar. Hospitals spend significant resources to address what some…
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Association News
SAVE THE DATE AND GET READY TO CELEBRATE 2022 NATIONAL CASE MANAGEMENT WEEK IS OCTOBER 9-15 Setting the Standard for…
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Best Practices
Disruptive Innovation
BY DR. COLLEEN MORLEY, DNP, RN, CCM, CMAC, CMCN, ACM-RN, FCM As I write this, it has been 2 whole weeks…
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Care Coordination
Case Manager for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Told from the Perspective of a Mother and a Case Manager
BY NICOLE BERMAN, RN, MSN, CCM, WITH MARY MCLAUGHLIN DAVIS, DNP, ACNS-BC, NEA-BC, CCM Intellectual disability (ID) is the most…
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Patient Communication
The Beauty and Power of Nursing
BY MICHELLE KNAUB, MED, BSN, RN Did you ever have a day when, even though you were bone-tired and so…
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Care Coordination
Children Need Independent Patient Advocates, Too
BY REBEKA ACOSTA, BCPA Every child with significant illness should have an independent patient advocate in addition to their informed…
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The Ingredients Required to Develop a State-of-the-Art Pediatric Care Management Team
BY JENNY QUIGLEY-STICKNEY, RN, MSN, MHA, MA, CCM, ACM-RN, CPHM, CMAC To better understand what is required to develop the…