Speaker:
Melinda K. Abrams, MS
Description:
The distance between acute care and a soft landing at home is becoming smaller. Under the Affordable Care Act, the CMS Innovation Center designated $500 million to enable community-based care transition programs. The funds are an investment in practices that better meet the needs of patients as they transition to community settings—needs that go far beyond getting to the next doctor’s appointment—and reduce unnecessary readmissions. This session will describe how organizations are focusing on patients with complex needs to achieve high-value care transitions.
Learning Outcomes:
- Discuss the characteristics of high-need, high-cost patients: Who are they?
- Connect the special needs of these patients to how they use health care; and
- Describe steps health care organizations can take to identify high-cost, high need patients and better meet their care transition needs through case management.
Credit Information:
The Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCMC) is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
This program has been pre-approved by The Commission for Case Manager Certification to provide continuing education credit to CCM® board certified case managers. The course is approved for 1 CE contact hour(s). Activity code and Approval number will be awarded on your certificate of completion.
This program has been pre-approved by The Commission to provide continuing education credit to CDMS® board certified disability managers. The course is approved for 1 CE contact hour(s). Activity code and Approval number will be awarded on your certificate of completion.
To earn contact hours/CEs: In order to earn your contact hour(s)/CE, you will have to watch the presentation in its entirety and complete the survey. Once both the presentation and survey are marked as complete, you will receive your Certificate of Completion. If you are a CCM, your CEs will automatically record in your CCMC account.
Disclosures:
All planners and speakers have disclosed that they have no relevant financial relationships or conflicts of interest with commercial interests related directly or indirectly to this educational activity.
Commercial Support or Non-Commercial Sponsorship:
There is no commercial support for this activity. The planners and faculty have no relevant relationships to disclose.
Expiration date: 1/31/2026
