#case managers

As a Certified Case Manager, you demonstrate that you have expertise and the highest level of professionalism this specialty has to offer. Certified Case Manager: The professional who conducts needs assessments, plans care/monitor implementation, coordinates services for effected individuals and families, provides psychosocial support in the form of appraisal crisis intervention counseling regarding health careers and benefits, makes appropriate referrals as necessary.

Certification looks good on you You will stand out as a professional and an ITIL er. Employers, coworkers, and clients recognize your certification as validation of standardized knowledge in case management concepts, assessment, care planning, utilization review and ethical decision making.

Your career advancement prospects improve. Credentialing often leads to leadership or specialized caseload positions and supervisors. You’re more competitive for promotions, and positions where care coordination and resource management expertise is needed.

Financial benefits commonly follow certification. Most places pay more, give bonuses or differential for certified staff. It can also bolster your position in salary negotiations and make you more appealing to recruiters.

You learn and grow in both your clinical knowledge and business acumen as you go through certification, and continuing education requirements. The emphasis on evidence-based practice, documentation standards and measuring outcomes reinforces your capacity to provide care that is efficient, effective, and brings about results.

You gain power to change patient and client lives. Case Managers are well versed to mitigate readmissions, prevent excess services or case management would never be cost effective and assist clients in links with other community resources at levels that improve lifestyle and decrease costs over all.

The world becomes your workplace--professionally mobile across environments and industries. Your certification is accepted in hospitals, managed care, long-term care, workers’ comp, behavioral health and community-based organizations – allowing you to switch jobs or practice settings as needed.

Networking and professional development grow with CM requirements and membership in professional associations. You benefit with access to professional conferences, peer groups and resources that keep your practice up-to-date and expand your career options.

In your work, you act both ethically and in accordance with the law. Certification covers legal baselines, rights of patients and confidentiality, as well as equitable use of resources to give you the confidence to make those tough calls with ethics.

Nurse case managers help to ease you through your discharge planning, giving oversight of how you will transition from our hospital to your home or to another location that can provide you with appropriate care. When you’re discharged, leaving the hospital isn’t just a matter of walking out the door; it’s also about organizing your care so that you can be supported in your health and healing. Case managers also help to fill that gap by coordinating individualized care plans that meet your needs.

As you get ready to leave, you may be wondering what’s next and how to take care of yourself outside the hospital. Nurse case managers intervene to clarify, educate and support. They will examine your past and present health, and your treatment needs. This allows them to develop a comprehensive discharge plan that’s about more than just medication management, follow-up appointments, lifestyle modifications, and any therapy or equipment you may need. Customizing this plan is the way these do-gooders mitigate risk of a recurrence and a follow-up stay in hospital.

You gain from the case manager’s coordination with multiple healthcare professionals. You don’t have to be making endless calls and emails to get therapy appointments, prescriptions or specialist referrals; the nurse case manager is on your case, so to speak, contacting those providers for you. Less confusion, and more time for you to focus on healing and less time to try and figure out the complicated healthcare system. Their contacts with doctors, therapists, sometimes even social workers, can help ensure that everyone involved is on the same page about your care.

Nurse case managers also take the time to teach you and your family about your medical condition and how best to deal with it. They will answer your questions and help guide you to useful information that will help you to become an active participant in your healthcare. It's critical that you use this information to be able to identify warning signs and know when to seek help in case complications develop. You come home with confidence and ability that sustains your well-being for years to come.

A critical component of their work is to consider potential elements that could hinder a recovery. They evaluate your home environment, your support network, and your financial circumstances to predict any challenges that might impede your healing. Once your case manager has learned more, they’ll guide you to local resources, like home health services, community programs or even a financial aid program to help you along the way. This practice of seeing the big picture helps your discharge plan to be more successful and long lasting.

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Federal agency says it lost track of 1,488 migrant children

Twice in less than a year, the federal government has lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children after placing them in the homes of sponsors across the country, federal officials have acknowledged.

The Health and Human Services Department recently told Senate staffers that case managers could not find 1,488 children after they made follow-up calls to check on their safety from April through June. That number represents about 13 percent of all unaccompanied children the administration moved out of shelters and foster homes during that time.

The agency first disclosed that it had lost track of 1,475 children late last year, as it came under fire at a Senate hearing in April.

Lawmakers had asked HHS officials how they had strengthened child protection policies since it came to light that the agency previously had rolled back safeguards meant to keep Central American children from ending up in the hands of human traffickers.

“The fact that HHS, which placed these unaccompanied minors with sponsors, doesn’t know the whereabouts of nearly 1,500 of them is very troubling,” Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, the panel’s chair, said Wednesday. “Many of these kids are vulnerable to trafficking and abuse, and to not take responsibility for their safety is unacceptable.”

HHS spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley disputed the notion that the children were “lost.”

“Their sponsors, who are usually parents or family members and in all cases have been vetted for criminality and ability to provide for them, simply did not respond or could not be reached when this voluntary call was made,” she said in a statement.

Since October 2014, the federal government has placed more than 150,000 unaccompanied minors with parents or other adult sponsors who are expected to care for the children and help them attend school while they seek legal status in immigration court.

On Tuesday, members of a Senate subcommittee introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at requiring the agency to take responsibility for the care of migrant children, even when they are no longer in its custody.

An Associated Press investigation found in 2016 that more than two dozen unaccompanied children had been sent to homes where they were sexually assaulted, starved or forced to work for little or no pay. At the time, many adult sponsors didn’t undergo thorough background checks, government officials rarely visited homes and in some cases had no idea that sponsors had taken in several unrelated children, a possible sign of human trafficking.

Since then, HHS has boosted outreach to at-risk children deemed to need extra protection, and last year offered post-placement services to about one-third of unaccompanied minors, according to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

But advocates say it is hard to know how many minors may be in dangerous conditions, in part because some disappear before social workers can follow up with them and never show up in court.

From April to June, HHS called 11,254 children the agency had placed with sponsors, and found 25 of the children had run away, and 1,488 could not be located, according to the data provided to the subcommittee.

Portman began investigating after a case in his home state of Ohio in which eight Guatemalan teens were placed with human traffickers and forced to work on egg farms under threats of death. Six people have been convicted and sentenced to federal prison for their participation in the trafficking scheme that began in 2013.

The legislation comes as the Trump administration faces litigation over its family separation policy at the U.S.-Mexican border, which while it was in effect sent hundreds more children into the HHS system of shelters and foster care. Some of those children since have been reunited with their families, while others have been placed with sponsors.

Oakley did not respond to questions regarding whether any of the children who the agency lost track of had been separated from their families before they were sent to live with sponsors.

The legislation is aimed at ensuring HHS does more to prevent abuse, runs background checks before placing children with sponsors, and notifies state governments before sending children to those states, the bill’s sponsors said.

“The already challenging reality migrant children face is being made even more difficult and, too often, more dangerous,” said the panel’s top Democrat, Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware. “This simply doesn’t have to be the case and, as this legislation demonstrates, the solutions don’t have to be partisan.”