By Melanie Prince, MSN, BSN, NE-BC, CCM, FAAN, FCM Do you experience occasional pain? Or pain daily? Sudden pain following an acute injury? Have you had a dental procedure or surgery that resulted in pain for several days or weeks? If you have recently sought medical...
By Janet Coulter, MSN, MS, RN, CCM, FCM In my favorite musical Hamilton, the lead actor sings “I’m not throwing away my shot.” Don’t throw away YOUR shot! Take this opportunity to share your knowledge and research with the case management community. As case managers,...
By Tiffany Ferguson, LMSW, CMAC, ACM Maybe there is a greater understanding of patients’ understanding their Medicare appeal rights or maybe there is a growing occurrence of patients feeling like they are leaving too quickly from the hospital without a solid plan in...
By Laura Ostrowsky, RN, CCM, MUP and Joan Westgor, MSN, RN, CCM Public policy and case management: What’s the connection? What does it mean to me as a case manager, a professional in healthcare, a citizen? Public policy affects all of us. As citizens in a democracy,...
By Dr. Colleen Morley, DNP, RN, CCM, CMAC, CMCN, ACM-RN, FCM How do we go from being the best-kept secret in all of healthcare? We do it through outcomes, data and telling the story of the impact of the practice of case management across the care continuum! Otherwise...
By Joyace G. Ussin, MSN, RN, BSBM, CCM Houston Gulf Coast Chapter of CMSA had sustained huge losses in that the established board members retired: chapter membership declined, vendor participation decreased, and with the Covid pandemic looming, events and conferences...
