Description:-

This program will review the elements that most greatly impact on cost and length of stay by focusing on care coordination as one of the key strategies for successful reductions of these metrics.   Care coordination, as one of the main roles of the RN case manager and social worker, is complex and includes many characteristics that encompass the role. These will be covered as well as those elements that have the greatest negative impact on care coordination. Those that have the greatest positive impact will be discussed in detail.  Working with teams to enhance care coordination, as well as rounds and huddles, will be discussed. Participants will walk away with effective strategies for managing their hospital’s length of stay and cost.  

Learning Objectives:-

• Understand care coordination as one of the key roles of the case management professional.
• Discuss how cost is measured in healthcare.
• Review how care coordination can reduce cost and improve quality of care.
• Describe rounds as a key tool in care coordination.
• Understand the five key elements in care coordination.
• Discuss elements that can negatively impact on care coordination.
• Learn how to integrate care coordination into your daily practice. 

Course Outline:-

• Care coordination’s impact on length of stay and cost
• Negative impacts on care coordination
• Positive impacts on care coordination
• Five key elements of care coordination
• Strategies for evaluating your hospital’s own areas of inefficiency
• Effective time-out processes
• Rounds and huddles

Why Should You Attend?

Care coordination is one of the four key roles that hospital case managers and social workers perform. The other roles include utilization management, discharge planning, and resource management. It is integral to managing cost and length of stay. Nevertheless, it is often overlooked or under-performed. This is sometimes due to workload issues and/or understaffing. Other times it is due to a lack of focus on this area of work.  Case management professionals must perform this role in their daily practice. No other department or discipline owns care coordination in the way that we do and so we must understand how best to coordinate care and how to integrate care coordination into your daily practice. We provide leadership in cost and length of stay reduction and care coordination is a fundamental way in which to achieve these outcomes.

Who Should Attend?

• Hospital Director of Case Management
• Hospital Director of Finance
• Case Managers across the Continuum
• Social Workers across the Continuum
• Vice President of Case Management
• Directors of Nursing
• Physician Advisors
• Hospitalists