Innovation: Reducing COPD Readmissions

Innovation: Artificial Intelligence Supports a New Approach

This episode is presented by the American Case Management Association and sponsored by Xsolis. Join our host, Deb McElroy, along with featured guest, Rikki Moye. Rikki is a registered nurse with 20 years of progressive leadership experience in the field of Case Management. She has been the Vice President of Case Management for the Oklahoma division of Ardent Healthcare, Hillcrest HealthCare System for the last 5 years. Her responsibilities include planning, managing, directing and evaluating the activities, functions and the personnel of the division Case Management program.  In this episode, the discussion focuses on innovative ways in which technology has been leveraged, leading to a redesigned care management model and improved outcomes. They also dive into implications for the future.

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Bonus: Reimagining Mental Health Care

Today’s episode is presented by the American Case Management Association. Join our host, Deb McElroy, along with featured guest, Dr. Vikram Patel. Dr. Patel is the Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the Harvard Medical School. He is a psychiatrist whose work over the past two decades has focused on addressing the vast unmet needs for mental health care, especially in low resourced settings.  He holds honorary professorships at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, the Public Health Foundation of India, and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

The pandemic has led to an economic downturn and associated increase in the prevalence of mental health problems globally and considerably worsened the pre-existing crisis of unmet need for care. Dr. Patel argues this presents a historic opportunity to reimagine mental health care, by scaling interventions designed to improve the access, quality, and person-centered features of care. Several programs are discussed throughout this discussion, including the Mental Health for All Lab, the Global Mental Health Initiative at Harvard and Sangath.

Resources referenced by Dr. Patel include:

EMPOWER program - www.empower.care This is a not-for-profit effort of Harvard Medical School's GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard initiative to build the community based mental health workforce.

Mental Health for All Lab -  https://mentalhealthforalllab.hms.harvard.edu/This provides information about the research program led by Dr. Patel at Harvard.

RAND Corporation report on transforming mental health in the U.S. - https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA889-1.html

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Innovation: Reducing COPD Readmissions

This episode is presented by the American Case Management Association. Join our host, Deb McElroy, along with featured guest, Thomas Rhodes. Thomas has over 16 years of experience in respiratory care with ten of those years in leadership. He currently oversees two locations for Houston Methodist. Today the conversation focuses on the impact of a respiratory therapist led COPD education program on acute care hospital readmissions.

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Innovation: Case Management Clinical Ladder

This episode is presented by the American Case Management Association. Join our host, Deb McElroy, along with featured guest, Kathleen Bellamy. Kathleen has been an inpatient case manager at the Arthur James Cancer Hospital at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center for almost 28 years. Today the conversation is centered around the development, implementation, challenges, and advantages of a case management clinical ladder. The work discussed in this episode won the most innovative poster presentation at the 2019 National ACMA conference.

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Innovation: Case Management Simulation

This episode is presented by the American Case Management Association (ACMA). Join our host, Deb McElroy, along with featured guests from Trinity Health - Colleen Fitzgerald and Kyle McDaniel, and from the ACMA, Kathleen Ferket. In this episode, the discussion addresses the application of case management simulation, the process for implementation, how simulation for the case management teams is used to improve care transitions, and much more.

Advanced Care Transitions Simulation (ACTS) is a simulation program created by the ACMA. ACTS is focused on improving care transitions through assessment, communication, planning and collaboration. It leverages unique, team-based simulations of patient scenarios and enhances care coordination and critical thinking. For more information on the Advanced Care Transitions Simulation program, please visit acmaweb.org/acts

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