Case Management Boot Camp (Part 4 of 5) - Avoidable Delay Management: Tools for Taking Control of your Length of Stay

This webinar will focus on the role of the case manager in identifying avoidable delays. Capturing avoidable delays is the process used to ensure that patients experience good flow through the hospital stay and those delays are reduced or eliminated. We will review the common categories used to aggregate these delays and report on them. In addition, we will review the role of avoidable delay capture in the process of care coordination.

So many things can cause delays as patients progress through their stay and it’s our job to identify and correct these barriers to care. Our speaker will identify the most streamlined ways in which to integrate avoidable delay management into your day and with all the members of the interdisciplinary care team. Finally, she will review some examples of report cards that can be used to understand the data you have collected.

Learning Objectives:-

At the conclusion of these sessions, participants will be able to:

• Describe types of avoidable delays and how to capture them.
• Review ways in which to use avoidable delay data for analyzing outcomes.
• Discuss tools and techniques for reporting delays in usable formats.

Target Audience:-

Anyone involved with transitions in care including RN case managers, case management personnel, social work staff, post-acute care providers, physician advisors, finance directors, quality management and other interested personnel.