In the quest to improve patient health outcomes and lower costs, one of the biggest challenges providers face is harnessing an organization-wide view of data to identify performance improvement ...

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The long-term care industry faces a staffing crisis, which affects the health of nursing homes. As a business and finance enthusiast, you understand the ...

Compared with usual care, a dementia care management program improved various cost of care and utilization metrics in a Medicare managed care population at 12 months. Objectives: To examine a 12-month ...

When catastrophic conditions aren’t treated as their own vertical, plans risk applying standard care or general case management models that lack the depth, coordination, and domain expertise required.

Health care in the United States is stretched to its limit, and those who enter the medical field want to be able to provide the best care possible for their patients. For nurses, usually the backbone ...

The authors’ multidisciplinary care management program shows promise, as the reduction in per-patient per-month spending was $116. However, these financial benefits took time to materialize.

Thomas S. Bodenheimer ([email protected]), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Rachel Willard-Grace, University of California San Francisco. Caring for people with ...