What is Health Literacy? The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, Title V, defines health literacy as the degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions. Refer to the CDC Health Literacy [...]
This week I learned of the passing of Margaret “Peggy” Leonard, MS, RN-BC, FNP. She was a member of the Case Management Society of America (CMSA) since 1997 and served on the National Board from 2003-2010. While I did not know her personally, I attended many of the CMSA [...]
Over the past few months CompAlliance has been re-designing our website. We wanted to make it even more secure, responsive and informative. Our 2019 award winning CompTalk Blog is now front and center on our Home page. So is the CompAlliance Twitter feed. We share items of interest pertinent [...]
You will notice CompAlliance has an updated image gracing our new Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn pages. This image reflects an exciting transition within the workers' compensation industry! In the workers' compensation industry, we have in my opinion, always been person-centered in our approach to providing care for the recovering [...]
When we discuss the CompAlliance Alternative Transitional Duty Program (ATD) with our client partners, one of the advantages we discuss is the positivity that flows with assignment into our ATD program. The injured worker is working in an environment with other volunteers that WANT to be there, and are [...]
I was reading Bob’s Cluttered Desk and noticed an article encouraging a WorkersCompensation.com Best Blog Contest. This competition is to recognize those of us in the workers’ compensation community who provide “top quality, cutting edge, informative content”. Or as Bob puts it, “or at least those of you who [...]
24/7 Nurse Triage - What it is and what it isn't? When your employee is injured on the job what do you as the employer do? Do you have protocols in writing for your employees so they know who to report to? Do you have procedures set up for your [...]
In Part 1 of this series I touched on the ANA Position Statement providing ethical guidance and support to nurses and some of the responsibilities a nurse has when managing a patient in pain. I was asked after publishing Part 1 why a Case Manager would be responsible for [...]
Yesterday I touched on the ANA Position Statement providing ethical guidance and support to nurses and some of the responsibilities a nurse has when managing a patient in pain. I was asked today why a Case Manager would be responsible for assisting in the management of pain, to describe [...]
I was reading an ANA Position Statement providing ethical guidance and support to nurses as they fulfill their responsibility to provide optimal care to persons experiencing pain. We in the workers’ compensation industry have participated fully in the national debate on the (in)appropriate use of opioids for pain management. [...]
Written by Jay Garrard, VP of Operations, CompAlliance, Western Region. Joe Paduda wrote a spot-on article about the “buyer-user disconnect” the other day on his blog, Managed Care Matters, in which he examined issues surrounding the use of vendor portals. While there are a lot of “portals” out there, [...]
