title: Reorganization adds staff and improvements.
abstract: Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC, reorganized its clinical documentation program and added more staff after working with a consultant to determine opportunities for improvement. Staff members are assigned by service and work as a team with case managers. The hospital added four clinical documentation consultants. Clinical documentation consultants, coders, physicians received training over four weeks.
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States; D016526:Workload