Description:

In modern healthcare, controlling costs while maintaining high-quality patient care has become increasingly daunting. In this delicate balance, the concept of care coordination emerges as a beacon of hope. Collaborative and well-orchestrated care can alleviate the financial burden on healthcare systems and reduce the length of hospital stays for patients gaining prominence. 

Care Coordination involves deliberately organizing patient care activities and sharing information among all the participants concerned with a patient’s care to achieve safer and more effective care. This means that the patient’s needs are known and communicated at the right time to the right people and that this information is used to provide safe, appropriate, and effective care to the patient.

This program will help you understand what factors affect the cost and how long a patient stays in the hospital. We'll focus on the idea that coordinating care among healthcare providers is a crucial strategy to improve these factors. Even the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) examines how efficiently hospitals use resources and manage patient care.

Care coordination, a big part of a nurse's job, can be complex and often needs to be noticed. Many hospitals mainly concentrate on managing how resources are used and planning when patients can leave the hospital.

To grasp why care coordination is essential, we'll cover the processes involved and what can make it work well or poorly. We'll discuss how teamwork, meetings, and discussions can improve care coordination. You'll learn how to plan for a patient's day at the hospital and their entire stay. This helps the care team use resources wisely.

You'll also learn how to use intelligent strategies to reduce how much it costs the hospital and how long patients stay. This goes beyond just reviewing resource use and discharge planning. Instead, we'll see how care coordination fits into other aspects of managing patients and how each part supports the others.

You'll figure out what your hospital is good at and where it needs to improve when it comes to care coordination. Lastly, we'll explore the roles of nurses and social workers in care coordination.

Webinar Highlights:

• Care coordination’s impact on the length of stay and cost.
• Enhance care coordination while working with teams.
• Focus primarily on utilization management and discharge planning.
• Negative impacts on care coordination will be discussed.
• Positive impacts on care coordination will be discussed.
• Learn how to appreciate the role of interdisciplinary care rounds in care coordination.
• Critical strategies for reducing your hospital’s cost and length of stay.
• Discuss how care coordination folds into the other roles of case management and how each part plays off the other.
• Five critical elements of care coordination.
• Effective time-out processes.
• Working to align resources with patient and population needs.
• The role of the RN case manager and social worker in care coordination.
• We must understand the whys and the hows of care coordination.
• Identify your hospital’s areas of strength and weakness related to care coordination.
• Monitoring and follow-up, including responding to changes in patient needs.
• Improve care coordination outcomes across three dimensions - Improved Patient Safety, Improved Quality of Care, and operational Efficiency.
• Create a care plan outlining the critical interventions and outcomes to be achieved each day of the inpatient stay.

Why Should You Attend:

In today’s complicated healthcare environment, “taking care” goes far beyond what any family member had to do in the past. Care Coordination Strategies for Managing Cost and Length of Stay can benefit healthcare professionals, organizations, and anyone interested in improving healthcare outcomes and efficiency. It provides the knowledge, tools, and connections to improve healthcare delivery, reduce costs, and enhance the patient experience. It’s an opportunity to stay at the forefront of healthcare advancements and make a positive impact in the professional role.

Who Should Attend:

• Director of Case Management
• Case Managers
• Social Workers
• Directors of Nursing
• Directors of Quality
• Directors of Finance
• Vice President of Case Management

Presenter Information:

Name: Toni G. Cesta

Toni G. Cesta, Ph.D., RN, FAAN is Partner and Health Care Consultant in Case Management Concepts, LLC, a consulting company which assists institutions in designing, implementing and evaluating acute care and community case management models, providing on-site education to case management staff, and strategies for assisting health care organizations in improving their case management department’s efficiency and effectiveness.

The author of nine books, and a frequently sought after speaker, lecturer and consultant, Dr. Cesta is considered one of the primary thought leaders in the field of case management.

Dr. Cesta writes a monthly column called “Case Management Insider” in the Hospital Case Management journal in which she shares insights and information on current issues and trends in case management.

Prior to her current work as a case management consultant, Dr. Cesta was Senior Vice President – Operational Efficiency and Capacity Management at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. She was responsible for case management, social work, discharge planning, utilization management,denial management, bed management, the patient navigator program, the clinical documentation improvement program and systems process improvement.  Prior to her position as Senior Vice President at Lutheran Medical Center, Dr. Cesta has held positions as Corporate Vice President for Patient Flow Optimization at the North Shore – Long Island Jewish Health System and Director of Case Management, Saint Vincents Catholic Medical Centers of New York, in New York City and also designed and implemented a Master’s of Nursing in Case Management  Program and Post-Master’s Certificate Program in Case Management at Pace University in Pleasantville, New York.  Dr. Cesta completed seven years as a Commissioner for the Commission for Case Manager Certification.

Dr. Cesta has presented topics on case management at national and international conferences and workshops.  Her books include “Nursing Case Management: From Essentials to Advanced Practice Applications”, “The Case Manager’s Survival Guide: Winning Strategies in the New Healthcare Environment”, “The Case Manager’s Survival Guide: Winning Strategies for Clinical Practice”, “Survival Strategies for Nurses in Managed Care” and “Core Skills for Hospital Case Managers”.