title: Hospital CM and managed care growth link questioned.
abstract: A new study challenges the conventional belief that hospital-based case management has grown in response to increasing managed care penetration. According to the study, conducted by Jana Stonestreet, PhD, RN, chief nursing executive for Methodist Health Care System in San Antonio, there is no significant relationship between case management implementation and the level of managed care penetration in local markets. Other factors, however, do seem to have a significant relationship with the prevalence of case management in acute care facilities. These include increasing numbers of hospital beds and for-profit ownership. According to the study, 74% of acute care facilities currently have case management departments. Of those that don't, 57% plan to implement case management within 18 months.
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003625:Data Collection; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006761:Hospitals / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000639:trends; D011361:Professional Competence; D014481:United States