The Tangle of Coordinated Health Care

More specifically, who coordinates the proliferating number of health care helpers variously known as case managers, care managers, care coordinators, patient navigators or facilitators, health coaches or even — here’s a new one — “pathfinders”?

A Day in My Shoes: What it’s Like Being a Case Manager

Case managers have a lot of responsibilities—from facilitating educational coping skills groups and having in-depth conversations, to doing fun and engaging activities with clients. Primarily, however, my job involves helping others feel better, feel validated, and rebuild their trust in humanity when others have broken that trust

Care Managers Help Patients Navigate Medical Maze

As medical care becomes more fragmented and complex, people are turning to professional care managers who help with filing insurance claims, finding the right doctors or managing the care of an elderly relative who lives far away.

Case Management: An Important Part of Healthcare

It has been widely observed that a good case management process can reduce length of stay, diminish prescription errors, eliminate needless tests and unnecessary resource use, and lower readmission rates.

Case managers are 'cornerstone' of medical management

Case managers are uniquely positioned to make that strong connection between helping individuals navigate [insurance choices], as well as assisting them in understanding whatever circumstance or condition brought them to need those services in the first place.

Good News: Case Managers ARE Doing Research! We Just Didn’t Know It

As case managers, we do research every day whether it is looking at readmissions, effectiveness of patient teaching and many other processes. We use the scientific process: assessment, analysis, goals, intervention, analyze and evaluation when dealing with issues

The Clinical and Bottom Line Case for ED Case Management

Hospital EDs must continually make an expensive decision: whether to admit a patient, and to which level of care. ED Case Managers play a key role in this decision, helping to ensure appropriate admissions while reducing per-patient costs and resolving resource and service gaps.

The Highs and Lows of Nurse Case Management

Out of the vast number of specialties in the nursing field there is one that stands out from the crowd. It requires a broad reach beyond just patient care in a hospital. This registered nurse treats patients, but the care extends to loved ones and caretakers of the patient as well as financial institutions. This specialized health care professional is the nurse case manager.

The History and Need for Case Managers

Case managers become subject matter experts, translators, navigators, confidants, and aides to a vast population with a varied knowledge of healthcare.

The Nurse Case Manager: A Master of Project Management

Nurse case managers are the ultimate project managers. Like a complex project, they view an injured worker from all angles – then they fill gaps, connect pieces and ensure everyone is talking. The end result – shorter claims, lower medical costs and a happier, healthier worker.

Why Becoming a Case Manager Might Be Your True Calling

Nurses enter the medical field determined to make a difference in people’s lives, yet how they do it depends on their own unique knowledge, strengths, and personality. Just like a pair of scrubs, there is no single nursing role that fits everybody. Some people thrive in the frenzy of an ICU. Others need a different vantage point to affect abiding changes such as education or management.

Why Hire a Geriatric Care Manager?

A relationship with a professional geriatric care manager can allow the children of the elderly person to be children, while someone else manages the situation.