• E-mail
• Print
• RSS

Open house: An inside look at a DRG case management model

Case Management Weekly, May 30, 2007

Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Case Management Weekly!

Examining whether a case management model is current and best meeting the needs of a hospital and its patients can often feel like a chess match for case managers and administrators.

Although there are many ways to position case managers at a hospital--as there are many ways to move chess pieces around the board--most hospitals have long subscribed to a traditional unit-based strategy where case managers are assigned to a particular floor and serve many different functions.

For the past decade, however, case managers at the VUMC in Nashville, TN, have worked under a completely different model that is beginning to gain national attention. Instead of assigning case managers a multitude of responsibilities and designating them to random floors, VUMC splits its case management department into three mini departments and aligns its case managers with DRGs, or specific patient populations, says Ron Fortenberry, RN, director of case management at VUMC.

To read more, click here: http://hcpro.com/content/67086.cfm

Source: Case Management Monthly, April 2007, HCPro, Inc

Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Case Management Weekly!

• E-mail to a Colleague
• Print
• RSS
• Archive