Hospital Case Management and COVID-19: The “New” Normal

COVID-19 has been a fast-growing, communicable and deadly disease that became a world-wide pandemic. With this disease attacking the US population it changed our lives, and even more specifically, hospital operations. As hospital operations changed, our case management roles and processes changed as well. As this deadly virus seems to be leveling off, there will be a time that we will return to normal. However, our “old” normal will probably not be our “new” normal.

This webinar by industry veterans, Toni Cesta PhD, RN, FAAN and Bev Cunningham MS, RN, ACM will focus on transition phases for both case management staff—RN case managers and social work case managers—and case management leadership. Speakers will also address the role of the physician advisor in this transition.

An awareness of waivers or changes in rules and regulations by national, state, and local governments, as well as our payers will be critical as the transition occurs. Staff who have been emotionally impacted by this deadly disease will need support. This is a big ask for case management department leadership.

Lastly, an evaluation must occur. Changes that were made might be appropriate to continue. But, likewise, changes that were made may need to be removed or modified. This webinar will assist case management departments in understanding their focus areas for the next steps to “new” normal.

Webinar Objectives

Understand the current COVID-19 waivers affecting case management practice.
Develop a plan to transition to your “new” normal.
Identify best-practice strategies for transitioning to your “new” normal.

Webinar Agenda

COVID-19: Where we began
COVID-19: Where we are today
COVID-19: The next steps
Transition for hospitals: Surge hospitals and hospitals without surge
Case management roles in the transitions
A SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis of COVID-19 operations: The department and key stakeholders
The plan for the “new” normal: Evaluation of COVID-19 operations on acute care case management
Phases in the transition to the “new” normal
Outcomes for the “new” normal

Webinar Highlights

COVID-19 waivers impacting hospital case management departments
Current COVID-19 processes for case management departments
Use of a SWOT analysis for transition next steps
Transition steps for your case management department, surge hospitals and hospitals without surge
Case management roles in the transitions
Case management leader responsibilities
Evaluation of the hospital case management department’s response to COVID-19
Phasing your transition steps for the “new” normal
Identification of outcomes for your next steps

Who Should Attend

RN case managers
Case management leaders
Social work case managers
Physician advisors
Executives responsible for acute care case management

Toni Cesta

Toni Cesta, Ph.D., RN, FAAN is partner and health care consultant at Case Management Concepts, LLC, a consulting company which assists institutions in designing, implementing and evaluating acute care and community case management models and providing on-site education to case management staff, and strategies for assisting health care organizations in improving their case management department’s efficiency and effectiveness. Dr. Cesta is considered on of the primary thought leaders in the field of case management. She has written nine books on the topic of case management and writes a monthly column called “Case Management Insider” in the Hospital Case Management journal...

Beverly Cunningham

Beverly Cunningham, MS, RN is a founding partner of Case Management Concepts, LLC. She has a 25-year deep working knowledge of case management with specific expertise in denials management, patient flow and the role of the Case Manager and Social Worker in the Case Management process. She has served as a Commissioner on the Commission for Case Management Certification and is a fellow with the Advisory Board. She is certified as a case manager by the American Case Management Association. Bev is also former Vice President Resource Management at Medical City Dallas Hospital where she had responsibility for Case Management, Health Information Management, Patient Access, Physician Integration...

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