Pat Stricker, RN, MEd
Happy Case Management Week! Once again it is your time to be congratulated and celebrated for all the excellent work you do. As professional case managers, you provide quality patient-centered care, support, advocacy and safe, effective care coordination and transitions, while improving the patient experience and health outcomes. It is not easy being a case manager, but your unique skillset allows you to navigate and manage difficult care transitions in our changing healthcare environment. You are a valuable resource to your organization and to the patients and families you serve. You truly make a difference every day (not just this week)! Thank you for everything you do.
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 Great news: Sessions from the 2019 annual conference are now LIVE in the Educational Resource Library!
Access 44 up-to-date, relevant courses at your fingertips, offering a total of 44.5 CE hours nursing, 44.5 CE hours for CCMC, 6.75 Ethics CCM CE hours and 25 ASWB hours.
The best thing of all: If you are a CMSA member, all courses are absolutely free as part of your member benefits. Head to the ERL to explore and start earning your CEs today!
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CMSA Foundation invites you to join them in celebrating Case Management Week. Thank you for all you do!
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 Join CMSA ED, Kathy Fraser, for a special Case Management Week edition of Facebook Live! She'll be on at Noon Central to connect with the membership, share updates and answer questions.
Simply log in to Facebook and head to CMSA National's page and watch!
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Join us on October 23 at 2:00 PM EST/1:00 PM CDT for a sponsored webinar : "Conducting Wheelchair Transportation Assessments (CWTA)" from National Mobility Equipment Dealers Association (NMEDA) with featured speakers Andy Ghillyer, Ph.D. Director, Education & Training, NMEDA and Darren Reaume, National Training Manager, Q'Straint.
A professional training opportunity designed for healthcare professionals to learn how to identify and refer their patients to appropriate vehicle modification resources for wheelchair and scooter access and tie-downs.
Register today!
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On Thursday, October 31 at 11:00 AM CST, join Kathleen Fraser, MSN, MHA, RN-BC, CCM, CRRN, for CMSA's CM Spotlight Webinar Series for October on "Acute Care and Worker's Comp Case Managers; a Necessary Alliance."
In order to maintain the necessary care coordination and transitions of care for the injured worker, communication between the acute care case managers and the worker’s compensation case managers is critical.
Case managers are routinely confronted by gray areas, which occur when there are multiple stakeholders demanding critical thinking. Regardless of title or profession of origin, practitioners must appreciate that dealing with ethical dilemmas acknowledges there may not be a clear right and wrong when a conflict occurs. Valuable resources such as the CCMC professional code of ethics, awareness of the 5 basic ethical principles, NASW Code of Ethics and CMSA Standards of Practice, should be viewed as practice guidelines and provide an excellent foundation in all disciplines. They improve the quality of care in the emerging models of care, and transitions of care in practice settings, highlighting the importance of communication among all providers and practitioners.
Member Only Program
CE's: 1 hour CE Nursing, CCM, ASWB
Register today at the link below; have your CMSA.org user name and password ready to log in and complete your registration. If you run into issues please contact cmsa@cmsa.org or call 501-225-2229 for assistance.
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 CMSA's 2020 National Board of Directors nominations period is now through October 31!
CMSA is a not-for-profit Section 501(c)(6) professional society that is governed by an elected Board of Directors, supported by appointed Task Forces, and staffed by a professional association management company. In keeping with its mission "to promote the individual and collective professional development of health care case managers," future leaders will join a team of visionary leaders and dedicated professionals who are setting the pace with case management practice and health policy in today's healthcare environment.
Future leaders possess the necessary competencies and professional literacies as well as the commitment and dedication to drive visionary thinking. If the expectations duty described in the position descriptions match your desire to lead and you meet the requirements of the office, we encourage you to take the next step towards national leadership! Learn more and submit your nomination at the link.
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 Offering 1.0 hour of credit for CCMC, ACCME, AAPA, AANP, ACPE, and ANCC credits
Recent years have brought many updates in the world of asthma. But what does this mean for your patients? Stream this CE-accredited webcast to hear from the experts how you and your team can apply the latest advances in personalized asthma treatment and patient-centered care. Case-based content will allow you to exercise your problem-solving skills for complex patients with moderate-to-severe asthma while picking up some new pointers to ensure that your patients have access to the right therapy at the right time. This activity is provided by PRIME Education. There is no fee to participate. This activity is supported by an educational grant from Sanofi Genzyme and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.
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Through its representation, advocacy and education functions, the Case Management Society of America (CMSA) has been an organizing force setting the practice direction for the discipline of case management. CMSA promotes practice that is evidence-based and discourages the use of practices which, though popular or widely accepted, are either not beneficial or are contrary to the CMSA Standards of Practice for Case Management (SoP). While the increasing emphasis on care coordination by providers and payers has opened professional debate regarding the models being used in hospitals today, CMSA intends to clarify its position on hospital case management practice through this white paper initiative and urges hospital leaders to seek solutions that more effectively address the needs of our most vulnerable hospitalized patients.
This white paper has been in the works for almost two years through the work of a CMSA task force. The accumulation of their work is ready to share!
This white paper is FREE to Members.
Non-Members may purchase for $25.00
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 CMSA and CCMC are working together to continue advancing professional case managers in their career paths. CMSA members receive a 20% discount when applying for the CCM, as well as upon renewal. Those who hold the CCM certification receive a 20% discount for CMSA membership.
If you have questions about how to take advantage of your new member benefit, please contact CMSA Client Services at cmsa@cmsa.org or 501-225-2229.
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Download CMSA's Standards of Practice for Case Management, 2016 revision, which provides practice guidelines for the case management industry and its diverse stakeholders. The impetus for the 2016 revision of the Standards is the need to emphasize the professional nature of the practice and role of the case manager.
The 2016 Standards contain information about case management including an updated definition, practice settings, roles and responsibilities, case management process, philosophy and guiding principles, as well as the standards and how they are demonstrated.
Download Your Copy
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 CMSA is pleased to announce a partnership with Bruce Berger, PhD, of Berger Consulting, LLC to bring you comMIt: Comprehensive Motivational Interviewing Training for Health Care Professionals at a discounted price. This 8-hour online program is centered around motivational interviewing, which is an evidence-based effective method for improving adherence to health behaviors. It was developed specifically for patients who are either ambivalent or resistant to change regarding these health behaviors.
CMSA has really listened to your requests for a practical motivational interviewing course targeted at healthcare professionals and their needs. We are thrilled to bring you an accredited course developed by the foremost authorities of MI in healthcare, Drs. Bruce Berger and William Villaume.
There is a limited number of seats for this program, accessible to CMSA members only, so you'll want to act soon! Click below to explore more information and register.
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BY Connie Commander, RN-BC, MBA, CCM, ABDA, CPUR
At the Past Presidents’ Panel this June in Las Vegas, all the participants were asked specific questions, based upon our own expertise and experience. With our multiple years of hands-on leadership, we realized that many of the attendees might like to hear our perspective in building successful case management departments, no matter the venue.
My specific expertise has been in multiple settings, but for this publication, I wanted to share some insight into acute care case management departments.
I have consulted in multiple acute care settings across the nation. There are several things that I feel lead to the success of the department. One critical aspect is to whom in the C-suite the department reports directly. Without the support of this level of administration, the department could be set to fail. I have reported through the nursing officer, the chief financial officer and the chief medical officer at any one time. My preference is to report through the CFO directly, with strong dotted lines to the CNO and the CMO.
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 In an article for American Nurse Today, CMSA past president Anne Llewellyn, MS, BHSA, RN-BC, CCM, CRRN, discusses the roles and responsibilities of nurse case managers and how they can be key influencers in care decisions. She also explores how to become a nurse case manager and what opportunities await. Read the full article at the link!
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 The Journal of Medical Internet Research recently published an article about the www.ibd.care app, developed by PRIME Education in partnership with AMCP and CMSA, and supported through an education grant from Takeda.This article examines the utility of mobile health apps as part of functional IBD digital health solutions. Read the full article at the link!
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on September 26 issued a final rule that empowers patients to make informed decisions about their care as they are discharged from acute care into post-acute care (PAC), a process called “discharge planning.” In addition to improving quality by improving these care transitions, the rule supports CMS’ interoperability efforts by promoting the seamless exchange of patient information between health care settings, and ensuring that a patient’s health care information follows them after discharge from a hospital or PAC provider.
Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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 CMSA Today™—the official magazine of the Case Management Society of America—is the magazine for case managers. We are committed to providing case management knowledge, perspectives and news to case managers in all sectors of the profession. To facilitate that mission, we accept and consider:
- Original articles written by case managers of all healthcare backgrounds;
- Expertly prepared articles from professional writers—whether medical writers or experienced generalists—on case management topics;
- Feature articles, column material, and news about case management trends and issues, as well as about CMSA chapters and their activities;
- and personal, member-generated items considered nontraditional for a professional-association publication as poems, remembrances and similar sorts of content.
Consider sharing your knowledge by writing and submitting an article! Click below to learn more.
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 Join us for CMSA's 30th Annual Conference & Expo, "30 Years of Care Transitions Across the Full Continuum," next July in Boston, MA! Registration is open now with early bird pricing; take advantage of the lowest rate of the year, plus discounts and payment plan options!
Get your colleagues together and register soon!
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