Together, these care providers, including Catholic Healthcare Partners (Ohio), Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (New Hampshire), and MediSys Health Network (New York), highlight the efficiencies, cost savings, and budget certainty gained using World Energy's technology-based procurement approach.
Since 1998, the Catholic Healthcare Partners in Cincinnati has offered an educational program on palliative care and end-of-life care to clinicians throughout the health system, reports Cathy Follmer, RN, BSN, CHCE, CRNI, corporate director of continuum-of-care services.
Heart failure advocates help patients comply Focus is on self-management, empowerment Having heart failure advocates work with discharged patients to help them self-manage their care cut the rate of readmissions within 30 days from about 20% to 5%-6% at six hospitals that are part of the Catholic Healthcare Partners health care system.
In many of the Catholic Healthcare Partners hospitals, the case managers have incorporated the palliative care coordinator into the multidisciplinary rounds in the intensive care unit, as well as on the medical surgical units.
Most significantly, Catholic Healthcare Partners (CHP), of which Lourdes Hospital is a member, has signed a master contract with Optio for this document management solution.
Catholic Healthcare Partners in Cincinnati offers its Angel Program, an educational program on palliative and EOL care, to clinicians twice a year, says Cathy Follmer, RN, BSN, MBA/HCM, CHCE, CRNI, corporate director of continuum of care services for the health care system.
In many of the Catholic Healthcare Partners hospitals, the case managers have incorporated the palliative care coordinator into the multidisciplinary rounds in the intensive care unit as well as on the medical surgical units.
Welch Allyn, a leading global manufacturer of frontline medical products and solutions, was recently selected as the sole-source vendor for standardized blood pressure cuffs by non-profit healthcare purchasing coalitions Yankee Alliance and Catholic Healthcare Partners (CHP).
