Engaging Hospitalists in the Case Management Process

In this healthcare compliance webinar attendees will understand the role of the hospitalist, the hospitalist group and the collaboration responsibility with the case management department to ensure compliance with federal regulations, decreasing length of stay, and methods to improve case management outcomes.

Why Should You Attend:

In this session Ms. Cunningham will introduce the role of the hospitalist and the important aspects for staff RN case managers social workers and case management leaders to ensure effective implementation and sustaining of this critical role.

She will also discuss best practices for developing steps to ensure collaboration with this role. Additionally, she will discuss hospital outcomes that can be positively affected by the collaboration of the two roles.

The webinar will focus on not only strategies for aligning these two roles, but the impact they can have on Medicare spending per beneficiary, an important component of value-based purchasing, as well as other health care reform metrics (such as readmissions).

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Review of the hospitalist role, including various stages of the role
• Discussion of specialized hospitalists roles
• Examine critical strategies for working with hospitalists
• Implement a multidisciplinary team process for hospitalists, RN case managers and social workers
• Discuss best practices both RN case managers and case management leaders as they collaborate with hospitalists
• Describe best practices for auditing hospitalist and case management collaboration
• Discuss strategies for decreasing hospital risk for noncompliance with Conditions of Participation and the 2-midnight rule

Who Will Benefit:

• RN case managers
• Case management leaders
• Hospitalists and hospitalists leaders
• Senior leaders of hospitalists and/or case management departments