Project reviews admissions up front.
Covenant Health System is conducting a pilot project in which utilization managers review all patients admitted to the hospital and work with the physician to determine bed status. The team works in a centrally located access center from 6 a.m. to midnight and reviews cases admitted overnight each morning. The program allows emergency department case managers to concentrate on patients who do not meet criteria, and the unit case managers concentrate on care coordination. The team facilitates conference calls between the admitting physician and the physician transferring a patient from another hospital.
D019090:Case Management / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D010343:Patient Admission; D013714:Tennessee