title: Initiative cuts ED visits, hospital admissions.
abstract: When Sutter Health Central in Sacramento, CA, got involved in managed care and global capitation several years ago, it made sense to identify the patients likely to use the system a lot and do interventions to prevent them from getting to that point, says Jan Van der Mei, RN, continuum case management director.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002140:California; D019090:Case Management; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016330:Frail Elderly; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*