Case Management Along the Continuum 2012

Case management has emerged as a primary focus of healthcare delivery. The idea of managing the delivery of healthcare services to clients and patients across the continuum has never been more vital. Healthcare payment reform is now the platform for healthcare practice changes. Case managers are the best suited healthcare professionals to work with providers in all types of settings to improve quality and outcomes for healthcare consumers, and better manage the costs of services.

Join us at our 18th Annual Case Management Along the Continuum conference which will provide opportunities for case managers and case management administrators from multiple settings to come together and learn what's happening now and what potential there is for the future. Network with your peers from a variety of other organizations and leave with new tools, fresh ideas, and a different perspective.

Highlights of the conference include:

• Two Preconferences: Emergency Department Case Management Services: Taking Center Stage in Healthcare Transformation - - providing you with excellent assessment and planning processes to meet the quickly changing environment and financial impact ofbusy emergency departments. Case Management Administration: What Are Experts Doing to Manage Complex Case Management Departments? - - covering administrative challenges faced by case managers,including staffing and conveying critical data to the right departments to improve clinical and financial outcomes.

• Strategies for setting up discharge so that patients and family can successfully transition.

• Defining accountability in case management and successful ways to apply these rules.

• Creating changes in the senior suite of hospital management from case management practices.

• Update on physician practice case management.

Conference Objectives

At the end of this conference participants will be able to:

• Ident