ABPM Health Care Administration, Leadership & Management case studies
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Health Care Administration, Leadership, and Management (HALM) is an American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) subspecialty certification. ABPM describes HALM as a body of knowledge and skills that address the system-based needs of health care environments; certified physicians apply clinical experience plus medicine, business, public health, communication, computer science, economics, and law to manage patient care operations across specialties and professions, and to administer complex organizations and institutional systems critical to delivery, such as those promoting patient safety. The ABPM Health Care Administration, Leadership & Management case studies are 5 cases and about 2,737 words.
1The Overloaded Transitional Care Clinic
You are the medical director of a 12-provider primary care group that also runs a hospital follow-up clinic. Hospital partners began discharging high-risk patients to your clinic after a readmission-reduction grant ended, and no extra staffing was funded.
565 words, about 3 min2The Quality Metric That Rewards the Wrong Thing
You lead a 6-site ambulatory network. A payer introduces a value-based contract that pays a bonus if the percentage of diabetic patients with a completed annual retinal exam exceeds 70%.
525 words, about 3 min3The Nurse Who Raises Safety Concerns
You are the new clinic manager of a 9-physician internal medicine practice. A senior RN tells you privately that for months the practice has been reusing single-use glucose lancets between patients when supplies run low, and that a physician assistant has been signing off on medication refills for a physician who has been out on leave without reviewing the charts.
534 words, about 3 min4Choosing Between Two Expansion Proposals
Your 4-site primary care group is financially stable but has thin margins. Two proposals reach the board.
527 words, about 3 min5The After-Hours Coverage Squeeze
You manage a 10-provider pediatric practice. The practice currently answers after-hours calls through an on-call rotation among the physicians, but burnout is rising: three physicians have asked to be removed from the rotation, and two have threatened to leave.
586 words, about 3 min