by kcastady@parthenonmgmt.com | Oct 23, 2025 | Blog, Perspectives
By Adrienne Trzonkowski, MSM RRT-ACCS, RRT-NPS, AE-C, CCM As I begin to type my daily end-of-day projected discharge email, something hits me. I am writing the name of a gentleman who has been with us for over a hundred days. He is not going to rehab, he is not...
by kcastady@parthenonmgmt.com | Jul 11, 2024 | Blog
By Amy S. Chartier MSN, BA, RN, CMGT-BC “Room 410A would like hot sauce for his lunch.”“We don’t have hot sauce; I don’t even know where to get some.”“Ask the case manager, they’ll know.” In the eleven years I’ve been a nurse case manager in an acute care setting, the...
by kcastady@parthenonmgmt.com | Apr 29, 2024 | Blog
By Ronald Hirsch, MD, FACP, CHCQM, CHRI Many members of CMSA may recall the days in hospital case management when an enemy threatened hospitals with seemingly unlimited powers and little oversight- the RACs, the recovery audit contractor program. Started near the turn...
