Case management: considerations for coordinating quality services in rural communities

Article Abstract:

Case managers in rural communities are faced with different problems than those in urban areas. Scattered population, reduced number of formal health care services, and increased number of governmental regions within the service area are a few of the challenges rural case managers face. The most effective rural case managers tend to be people who have resided in the community for most of their life. Their understanding of the population's culture and local politics is an asset to their work.

Health aspects, Analysis, Evaluation, Cities and towns, Medical case management, Medically underserved areas

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Empowering initiatives to improve a community's health status

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The community health assessment process can help answer various pertinent questions for a community's medical providers so that they can provide both better-quality medical care and better preventive health education. Personal interviews with community members and small focus groups are two ways of obtaining more information about a community. Health is promoted through collaborative working relationships between medical providers and a community.

Health services administration

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Care management: outcomes-based practice for the primary nurse

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The ascendancy of managed care in the US is resulting in the radical redesign of health care from an illness model to a health promotion model. An integrated delivery system will facilitate patient progression through a medical care system. Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City is streamlining their health care system by focussing on the primary care nurse who gives direct care in cooperation with the interdisciplinary health care team.

Nurses

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