Educational Trainer

Cherilyn G. Murer, J.D. C.R.A., C.R.A.
President/CEO, Murer Consultants, Inc.
58 North Chicago Street
Joliet, IL 60432
Phone: (815) 727-3355
Fax: (815) 727-3360

Course Description

To establish, refine, and enhance a system-wide centralized post-acute health management system as a means of providing cost-effective health service delivery utilizing a full range of venues of care.

Suggested Text

Cherilyn G. Murer and Lyndean Brick
The Case Management Sourcebook: A Guide to Designing and Implementing a Centralized Case Management System
McGraw Hill and HFMA Publishing, 1997

Course Objectives

• To identify parameters of roles and responsibilities of the health manager to minimize political disruption while maximizing desired outcome.
• To assure commonality of language, methodology and outcome expectations throughout the continuum by aligning the acute oriented care tracks with a post acute continuum.
• To adapt an organizational philosophy of transitioning patient care from the most restrictive acute setting to least restrictive and less costly alternative venues including:
  • Subacute Care
  • Long Term Care Hospital
  • Skilled Nursing Facility
  • Home Health
  • Senior Care Clinics
  • General Outpatient Services
  • Other alternatives venues within the service capabilities of the system.
• To allow for individual professional development for health managers.
• To apprise health managers of the latest regulatory, clinical, and financial information as available in order to assist in informed decision-making regarding full utilization of the Health System Continuum of Care. Focus shall be on the most recent and most impacting regulatory changes including HIPAA and Patient Rights legislation.

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