This member of the Multidisciplinary team determines whether patient has active medical insurance for current admission and coverage that is sufficient to meet patient's needs both inpatient and post-discharge services. (Please provide the role/title)
Hospital Care Investigator

The Medical Chief! - Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Amit Uppal
The Title of Bellevue's current hospital-wide project is Inpatient Lean Team – Reducing Inpatient Strain. What is the rationale for the project?
To improve patient flow and to reduce overcrowding in our Emergency Department.
This is an e-learning platform that provides nursing certification review courses for free and is available for HHC nurses.
Nurse Builders

Per N.Y. Election Law Section 3-110, all employees are eligible for time off to vote on Election Day.
In completing your timesheet, what code is used for voting time?
Code 77

Per NY State Law, only a registered nurse can complete a PRI.
Patient Review Instrument
According to D-08 Discharge Planning Policy, this member of the Multidisciplinary team ensures that a patient for post-acute care services is provided a list of SNFs, SARs or HHA available to the patient within insurance coverage and geographic choice of the patient.
Social Worker

TJC Preparedness, CMS Standards- Director Regulatory Affairs
Ida Brown, DMSc, MPA, RPA
Director of Regulatory Affairs and Accreditation
Name at least one initiative implemented by NYC HHC to improve team communication, collaboration, and coordination of care.

This Insider tab is a one stop shop to access your benefits, payroll, performance management, training and learning (ELM). 
Employee Resource Center

In place of a morning huddle, what is the subject of the daily morning e-mail being sent out that has the details for unit assignment, work queue volume, ALOC patients, SW designee providing discharge notice, or any announcements by the department.
Today's Coverage
If interpreter services is needed, Call ext., __________ for Bellevue language services and document using .interpreter smart phrase.
1500
Once Commence Health (Livanta) provides notification that patient has requested a discharge appeal, this form is completed and provided to the patient by the Case Management Department, providing a full explanation of the reasons of discharge from a hospital, and why services being received will no longer be covered by Medicare.
Detailed Notice of Discharge (DND Form)

In 2025, Our CEO Dr. Eric Wei, launched the NYC H+H/BELLEVUE 5 YEAR STRATEGIC GOALS.
*Name at least three out of the 12 goals.

What is a current Performance Improvement (PI) Project being undertaken by the Case Management Department that includes ACM performing a proactive screening of patients' eligibility to transition to a level of care not available within the hospital's level of care continuum.
Enhanced LTACH Screening/ LTACH Optimization Project
This hyperlink provides you a downtime tool to clinical guidelines to complete a utilization review using InterQual clinical criteria.
InterQual Bookview

All active ALOC status cases require a _______________ and must be entered in the chart for billing to occur.
Accommodation Code
This EPIC work queue list is where you go to check any clinicals/ UR requested for your assigned units.
10997

According to D-08 Discharge Planning Policy, Social Work orders Durable Medical Equipment, with exception of patients being followed by what discipline?
PT/OT
The "Safety Sherriff" of Bellevue- Patient Safety Officer.
Dr. Risa Bochner
This desktop icon is used to report occurrences, good catches, and feedback. This serves as H+H’s online Incident Reporting system
VOICE

This platform is used by HHC to manage, control, and protect PHI when sending e-mails to an external organization.
Kiteworks
All patients with any potential for dc the following day need to be added to the projected discharge list by the primary/covering CM on med/surg units. This is critical for regulatory compliance as reviewed in our staff meetings/huddles. For any add-ons to the 24 hr notices, what critical information is important to be provided in the e-mail, for the SW designee to determine which form to provide?
Insurance Information
To use a fire extinguisher, remember to do PASS, step by step.
P-Pull
A- Aim at the base of fire
S- Squeeze lever
S- Sweep back and forth
According to P-46 Administrative Discharge of Patients Refusing to Leave Hospital Policy, If the discharge is appealed and findings are in favor of the decision to discharge, the patient is given notice of the decision and informed that he/she will be responsible for ___________ for the hospital stay as indicated by the external review agency.
Financial expenses
"Guardian of Standards"- Chief Quality Officer
Dr. Shaw Natsui
Name at least one action that the Inpatient Lean Team undertook to reach their goal for the project, Inpatient Lean Team – Reducing Inpatient Strain
*** The team developed a protocol to return patients who had been transferred from other hospitals back more efficiently.
*** The team developed a bed blocking workflow. A committee began reviewing blocked beds on a daily basis to find opportunities to unblock beds that did not need to be blocked (either because the patient was no longer contagious, or because the bed no longer needed repairs, or because the patient no longer had to be isolated for behavioral reasons).
*** The team created a way to prescreen Cardiology transfer patients to determine their eligibility for outpatient workup when it was appropriate.
*** The team also worked with other hospitals in the H+H system to accept a larger share of Cardiology patients.
Which hyperlink in Bellevue Policies and Procedures Tab, should you click to find the discharge planning and discharge notice policy?

Administrative

Name three standardized templates currently used by the department to communicate information within Case Management team members as part of our departmental workflow.
Clinical Request Template for UR Portals
Authorization Request Template
ALOC Updates Template
Everyone in the hospital should be able to identify a patient with an acute stroke. The BEST way to remember the signs and symptoms of Stroke are to remember the acronym BE-FAST.
