Managing Post-acute Care & Extended Care Services

Selecting the most appropriate setting, Evaluation definitions, Chronic pain assessment, Outcome management, factors for success, Provider requirements for Medicare HMO contracts, Functional Independence Measures (FIM), Identification/monitoring: Cost factors, Improve operational efficiencies and communication, Length of stay benchmarks, ECS Facility Network, UM Case Management for Skilled Nursing Facility Services, Concerns about SNF admissions?, Centralized extended care service resource and care management, ECS Resource Center Staff Forums and Grand Rounds, Strategic Initiative to Improve Triage Decisions, Telephone Encounter Guidelines and form, Preadmission Screening by the ECF, Preadmission Screening Tool, OASIS, Hospice care in the nursing facility