By TIFFANY FERGUSON, LMSW, CMAC, ACM
The Age-Friendly Hospital Rating, introduced as part of the CMS 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule (HHS, 2024), highlights an opportunity for case managers to play a pivotal role in enhancing care for older adults.
BY DR. MERCEDES WILLIAMS, DBH, MPH/ID, LMSW, CCM Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) initiation in 2010, case management has continued to evolve. State case managers are support coordinators in the intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) arena. I/DD are disorders that present at birth, specifically before the age of 18. These…
BY BENJAMIN J. FOSTER, MBA In January 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), announced $103 million in awards to improve the retention of healthcare workers and help respond to the nation’s critical staffing needs by reducing burnout and promoting…
BY MARY McLAUGHLIN DAVIS, DNP, ACNS-BC, NEA-BC, CCM, AND STEPHANIE DOIBO, MS, BSN, RN, CCM Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the United States. It takes a toll physically, mentally, emotionally and financially on its victims. Stroke affects an estimated 795,000 people each year in the…
BY NICOLE DePACE, MS, APRN, GNP-BC, ACHPN Gerald is an 84-year-old man with Parkinson’s disease, a history of CVA, atrial fibrillation on anticoagulation, anemia and is hard of hearing. He has been hospitalized twice in the past 6 months due to severe anemia that is likely due to gastrointestinal bleeding, though…
BY KELLIE BURKE, MSW, CSW, LMSW, AND JAQUOIA (JQ) SYLVESTER, LMSW, MBA It seems like every article you read lately starts with “The past year and a half…” as it references the hardships and struggles our nation and the world faced as a result of the pandemic. Just when we think that…
BY DR. BERTALAN MESKÓ, MD, PhD In June 2021, I gave a keynote speech at the CMSA 2021 Virtual Conference, concentrating on how automation, most notably artificial intelligence, will affect care in medicine. This article was explicitly rewritten as a follow-up to that speech. Artificial intelligence in healthcare has incredible potential.…
BY TEENA CHOPRA, MD, MPH, MATHEW LEPERA, DO, AND GLENN TILLOTSON, PhD BACKGROUND Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) infection is the number one cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea. Additionally, it is increasingly a cause of gastrointestinal illness in the community, with more than one-third of all U.S. infections occurring outside the hospital setting. There are approximately…
BY MICHELLE M. CROOK, BSN, RN, CCM, BCPA We are surrounded by numbers, and the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has made even those of us who are not typically “numbers people” look closely at data, trends and similar numbers-driven information. For some time, we have had the advantage of data analytics, artificial intelligence…
BY MELANIE A. PRINCE, MSN, BSN, NE-BC, CCM, FAAN I proudly hail from Louisiana, where great food is the DNA of the state. At a young age, children are taught to cook not only simple, but also complicated recipes. The fascinating part about the recipes is that often the ingredients are…