John Nelson, MD, MHM
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Opinion
John Nelson: Admit Resolution
July 31, 2012
Service agreements, when adhered to, help solve admission disagreements.
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John Nelson: Conflict Resolution
July 3, 2012
Solutions for physician disagreements over patient admissions
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John Nelson: Recognition, Promotion, Development Critical to Group Success
May 25, 2012
Well-designed forms of nonmonetary compensation can have a greater impact on a hospitalist than providing a reward in dollars.
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John Nelson: Your Hospital Should Use Scripts to Describe Hospitalists to Patients
April 26, 2012
Ideally, all communication about the hospitalist as an individual and the whole system of hospitalist care should help reassure the patient. Sadly, many people at the hospital unwittingly do the opposite.
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JOHN NELSON: Morning Discharges and Length of Stay
March 31, 2012
This month I will focus on what can be thought of as the two components of “back end” throughput: effective management of length of stay (LOS) and patient discharge in the morning rather than late in the day
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John Nelson: ED Patient Throughput Is New Core Measure
February 29, 2012
Hospitals are likely to increase their customers’ satisfaction by improving “frontend” throughput from the ED to the inpatient unit. In fact, CMS added two new core measures (known as inpatient quality reporting, or IQR) that hospitals began reporting on Jan. 1.
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Hospital Value-Based Purchasing
January 27, 2012
The measures matter to patients, info is publicly reported, and money is at risk.
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Opinion
Reimbursement Readiness
December 21, 2011
Documentation improvement, regulatory acumen key maximization of Medicare dollars
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Opinion
Holdout Hospitals
November 30, 2011
Few U.S. hospitals operate without an HM service, but they do exist—for now.
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Opinion
Good Citizenship
November 2, 2011
Can a performance bonus help?
