Christopher Cheney
Senior Clinical Care Editor at HealthLeaders
Covering the clinical care beat. Multimedia journalist from 1996 to present. Medical research administration from 1990 to 1996.
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healthleadersmedia.com | Christopher Cheney
Embedding behavioral health professionals in primary care practices drives significant benefits for patients and health systems. Virtua Health has embedded licensed clinical social workers, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, and psychiatrists in primary care practices. Return on investment for these care models includes increased patient satisfaction. Providing patient access to behavioral health services is a challenge for health systems.
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healthleadersmedia.com | Christopher Cheney
A month-long rotation program gives residents experience in what it is like to live and work in a rural community. This month-long rotation program is unique because residents live in a rural community rather than commuting from an urban area. Residents learn that they can have a better quality of life in a rural area compared to a big city.
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healthleadersmedia.com | Christopher Cheney
Advocate Health is using volunteers to help improve the patient experience for inpatients. Advocate Health generates 2.5 million patient experience surveys annually. The health system looks for actionable patient experience feedback from individual patients and groups of patients. Listening to patients then acting on their feedback is crucial for patient experience success.
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psqh.com | Christopher Cheney
By Christopher CheneyCarilion Clinic has mastered the intricacies of operating a command center and post-acute referral hub that manages patient transfers and efficiently transitions patients out of its hospitals for post-acute care. Like many health systems across the country, Carilion Clinic is grappling with patient volumes that stretch bed capacity. Under these circumstances, managing patient flow and patient transfers into and out of the health system are crucial.
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1 week ago |
healthleadersmedia.com | Christopher Cheney
Carilion Clinic has managed its stretched hospital bed capacity with a command center and post-acute referral hub. An efficient command center manages patient transfer effectively and eliminates duplication of processes. A post-acute referral hub speeds up the transition of patients from inpatient settings to post-acute facilities, which opens hospital beds. Staffing command centers with registered nurses who have ICU or emergency medicine training avoids the expense of employing physicians.
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