Care Excellence

Nurses, social workers, nutritionists,and other practitioners! Join us June 9 for a FREE 30-minute webinar on palliative nutrition and Exploring Food Stories. Learn to help patients reflect on what has shaped their relationship with food and guide them toward healthy choices. Register here: https://bit.ly/2Bg8oro

Some of these free courses can help support nurse care managers or care coordinators helping to serve patients and families in the midst of this unprecedented healthcare crisis.

COVID-19 Palliative Care Resources – Free Palliative Care Training Palliative Care and COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic presents a severe healthcare crisis. Those most at risk from the virus — the elderly, frail, and/or those with underlying serious health problems — are the exact patient population that palliative care is designed to serve. Our concern and commi...

Learn how to better ensure sustainability in your career with our latest blog post Preventing Burnout in Care Managers. It emphasizes the importance of self- care, as well as strategies that can help you build resiliency! https://careexcellence.org/blog/preventing-burnout/

Care managers plan an invaluable practice in helping keep patients and healthcare organizations healthy and on-track. What inspired you to get involved with and/or become a care manager? Comment below!

Care managers help support not just the physical health of clients, but their too. Here are some signs to look for.

Care Managers Can Help Identify Depression in the Elderly Depression affects up to 5 percent of Americans age 65 or older who face a greater risk that their depression will not be properly diagnosed or treated.

Our Care Planning course builds skills that help care managers properly understand and develop person-centered and holistic care plans – a hallmark of high-quality care.

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Wonderful to see the amazing Pat Blaisdell, FACHE, Vice President, Continuum of Care, at California Hospital Association -- a huge advocate for our Care Excellence for Hospitals curriculum. Thank you, Pat, for all you do to support hospitals and health systems in California.

Great to catch up with Ricki Stajer, RN, MA, CHPQ, today at the California Hospital Association conference in Pasadena where she delivered a keynote on patient engagement. Ricki is the author of our free eBook, "Patient Engagement & Patient Activation: Strategies for Supporting Self-Management Programs" https://careexcellence.org/patient-activation-ebook/

Did you know that there is a growing demand for experienced, high quality case managers? With so much work to be done in and health plans, it is no surprise that care managers are needed more than ever.

Growing Demand for Experienced Case Managers Education and training announced for case managers, care coordinators, and care managers who have increasing case loads involving patients with complex needs

Our Patient-Value Perception course teaches health plan care managers how to assess and understand the “whole picture” of a client’s lived experience, taking in factors like environment, lifestyle and other health determinants.

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Teamwork can’t make the dream work if individuals are not willing to collaborate. Effective must be experts in collaboration.

Care Managers Must be Experts in Collaborative Problem Solving As healthcare shifts toward strategies focusing on needs and outcomes of specific populations, it is important to develop collaborative problem-solving