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Valentine’s Day A New Way
It’s Valentine’s Day: A Day that strikes fear into the hearts of gift-givers everywhere, that makes happy couples giddy, that makes unhappy couples cringe (how do you find the perfect card to say, “You don’t make me sick all the time?”), that makes some singles feel...
COVID Detecting Dogs: Is this the Wave of the Future?
By Janet Coulter, MSN, MS, RN, CCM Can dogs be trained to identify an olfactory scent of the coronavirus? Could this be a quick screening method to identify persons with COVID-19? In 2020, scientists started exploring the possibility of training dogs to sniff out the...
3 Ways to Get More Time Back in Your Day While Still Meeting the Needs of Patients
By John Bernot, MD Working late trying to reach patients before surgery to make sure they know when to stop taking medication and confirm they’ve been managing their diabetes effectively? John Bernot Or maybe you have been going into the office early to look through...
The Case Manager’s Role: Digging Deep In A Data Driven World
By Michelle M. Crook, BSN, RN, CCM, BCPA We are surrounded by numbers, and the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has made even those of us who are not typically "numbers people" look closely at data, trends and similar numbers-driven information. For some time, we have had the...
The Patient Journey Through The Continuum Of Care
By Marie Stinebuck, MBA, MSN, ACM, AND Tiffany Ferguson, LMSW, CMAC, ACM Patient satisfaction and the prevention of readmissions are continuously discussed as quality metrics for hospital success. With an increased focus on these and other metrics to continually...
It’s a Family Affair
By Melanie Prince, CMSA President I am excited about the year 2022 and committed to looking forward to a bright future with endless possibilities. But I must make one exception and look back for a moment as I reflect on a wonderful time with family this past holiday...
In Case You Missed It – Top CMSA Blog Posts of 2021
The CMSA Blog offers timely information and important perspectives on issues affecting the case management community. Here are the top Blogs from 2021: The Challenge of Caring for the Caregiver By Janet Coulter, MSN, MS, RN, CCM Imagine you are on a plane and the...
Trust
By Peggy Ann Berry, PhD, RN, COHN-S, CLE, PLNC, FAAOHN This is my dog, Rosie, sound asleep on my lap. This is trust, something to be valued from our canines and other humans. How often can we damage a person’s trust in an individual, or for that matter, the...
How Technology Coupled with Human Touch Addresses Disparities in Health Care
By Jayme Ambrose It all started as a project for a class I was taking for my doctorate. After developing the idea for a new model of health care that would better address gaps and disparities impacting health, a nudge from my professor inspired me to take my thesis...
Yoga Therapy: A Modality to Decrease Stress and Promote Pediatric Mental Wellness
By Shelley Goldman, MS, BSN, RN, CCM, LICDC-CS, MAC, C-IAYT Yoga therapy is an emerging mind-body therapy that scientifically and therapeutically applies the ancient tools and wisdom of yoga. Its goal is to ease suffering and promote healing. Yoga therapy can be...
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