This document provides a case study on Lingraphica's online therapy software. It was used in a long-term care facility to improve patient outcomes and satisfaction. The study found improved cognitive function, mood, communication skills, and engagement for patients. Clinicians benefited from improved documentation and treatment tools. Administrators saw benefits from improved tracking of activities, outcomes and costs. Overall, the software was found to provide widespread benefits to patients, clinicians and administrators in the long-term care setting.
This project aimed to improve pediatric care coordination between primary care physicians and three specialty practices (neurology, orthopedics, pulmonology) in Michigan. The project focused on five areas: referral guidelines, records transfer, communication modalities, referral management workflows, and co-management protocols. Outcomes after one year showed improvements in access such as decreased wait times, fewer denied referrals, and increased patient and physician satisfaction. The project demonstrated how integrating care across specialties can help reduce barriers to specialty access.
This document discusses establishing a national patient experience survey programme in Ireland through a partnership between the Department of Health, the Health Information and Quality Authority, and the Health Service Executive. The goals are to develop a standardized survey tool, governance structure, and managed service to measure patient experience across acute care facilities. International evidence shows that improved patient experience correlates with better health outcomes, financial performance, loyalty, and staff satisfaction. The programme aims to holistically capture patient voice to drive quality improvement, benchmarking, and accountability across the health sector.
White Paper: Breakthrough Behavioral NetworkMark Gall
A specialty provider network for mental health services.
The impressive clinical improvement for
Breakthrough patients is driving efficient
treatment episodes vs. other systems of care.
The document discusses various topics related to physical therapy (PT) practice. It notes that in 2014, PTs can avoid PQRS penalties by reporting 3 quality measures for 50% of patients, and the number of measures required to receive bonuses will increase from 3 to 9. It also eliminates reporting via measures groups through claims. The document discusses focusing on developing quality measures for PT, payment models that promote value, and public policy initiatives to advance the role of PT in areas like disease management. It also discusses improving access, eliminating self-referral profits, and ensuring an adequate PT workforce.
NCQA_Future Vision for Medicare Value-Based Payments FinalTony Fanelli
This document discusses principles for achieving an optimal future state of quality measurement to support performance-based clinician payment under MACRA. It outlines five principles: 1) Every Medicare enrollee needs a dedicated and well-organized primary care team; 2) Measurement must be specified appropriately for each different unit of accountability; 3) Measurement should support rapid improvement and clinical decision making; 4) A core set of measures will let all stakeholders make comparisons across programs; 5) Quality measure results should be easy for consumers and payers to get and use. The document emphasizes the importance of coordinated, team-based primary care and having measures tailored to different payment and delivery models.
Improving hand offreportstudent namesteam name andssuser774ad41
The unit manager observed that change of shift reports were taking over 45 minutes and staff were leaving out vital patient information such as IV sites and DVT prevention measures. This was leading to errors, patients being left in disarray, and incomplete tasks. The goal is to propose a change to address these issues with timing and information handoffs between shifts. Implementing the SBAR communication tool as the standard for handoff reports could help reduce errors and decrease the time spent on reports by structuring the important information discussed.
2018 TBC Learning Collaborative Session 1, May 09 2018CHC Connecticut
This document provides an introduction to a learning collaborative on implementing team-based care (TBC) at health centers. It outlines the agenda for the first session, including introductions from six participating health centers where they describe their team members and a recent improvement. The goals are to review the collaborative structure and resources on TBC models and assessment tools to help teams get started on action period assignments.
Learning from marketing rapid development of medication messages that engage...LydiaKGreen
The document describes a study that partnered healthcare researchers with advertising professionals to develop advertising-style messages to encourage patients with chronic kidney disease to discuss medication options with their doctors. They aimed to assess the feasibility of this partnership approach and test whether the messages would be acceptable and effective. The teams created 11 initial messages, tested them with patients and doctors via surveys, refined 5 messages, and conducted focus groups to identify the 3 most persuasive messages. Focus group feedback suggested the approach could be acceptable if used to support patient-provider relationships and had an evidence base, and that messages were more motivating if they elicited personal identification and clear understanding.
This project aimed to improve pediatric care coordination between primary care physicians and three specialty practices (neurology, orthopedics, pulmonology) in Michigan. The project focused on five areas: referral guidelines, records transfer, communication modalities, referral management workflows, and co-management protocols. Outcomes after one year showed improvements in access such as decreased wait times, fewer denied referrals, and increased patient and physician satisfaction. The project demonstrated how integrating care across specialties can help reduce barriers to specialty access.
This document discusses establishing a national patient experience survey programme in Ireland through a partnership between the Department of Health, the Health Information and Quality Authority, and the Health Service Executive. The goals are to develop a standardized survey tool, governance structure, and managed service to measure patient experience across acute care facilities. International evidence shows that improved patient experience correlates with better health outcomes, financial performance, loyalty, and staff satisfaction. The programme aims to holistically capture patient voice to drive quality improvement, benchmarking, and accountability across the health sector.
White Paper: Breakthrough Behavioral NetworkMark Gall
A specialty provider network for mental health services.
The impressive clinical improvement for
Breakthrough patients is driving efficient
treatment episodes vs. other systems of care.
The document discusses various topics related to physical therapy (PT) practice. It notes that in 2014, PTs can avoid PQRS penalties by reporting 3 quality measures for 50% of patients, and the number of measures required to receive bonuses will increase from 3 to 9. It also eliminates reporting via measures groups through claims. The document discusses focusing on developing quality measures for PT, payment models that promote value, and public policy initiatives to advance the role of PT in areas like disease management. It also discusses improving access, eliminating self-referral profits, and ensuring an adequate PT workforce.
NCQA_Future Vision for Medicare Value-Based Payments FinalTony Fanelli
This document discusses principles for achieving an optimal future state of quality measurement to support performance-based clinician payment under MACRA. It outlines five principles: 1) Every Medicare enrollee needs a dedicated and well-organized primary care team; 2) Measurement must be specified appropriately for each different unit of accountability; 3) Measurement should support rapid improvement and clinical decision making; 4) A core set of measures will let all stakeholders make comparisons across programs; 5) Quality measure results should be easy for consumers and payers to get and use. The document emphasizes the importance of coordinated, team-based primary care and having measures tailored to different payment and delivery models.
Improving hand offreportstudent namesteam name andssuser774ad41
The unit manager observed that change of shift reports were taking over 45 minutes and staff were leaving out vital patient information such as IV sites and DVT prevention measures. This was leading to errors, patients being left in disarray, and incomplete tasks. The goal is to propose a change to address these issues with timing and information handoffs between shifts. Implementing the SBAR communication tool as the standard for handoff reports could help reduce errors and decrease the time spent on reports by structuring the important information discussed.
2018 TBC Learning Collaborative Session 1, May 09 2018CHC Connecticut
This document provides an introduction to a learning collaborative on implementing team-based care (TBC) at health centers. It outlines the agenda for the first session, including introductions from six participating health centers where they describe their team members and a recent improvement. The goals are to review the collaborative structure and resources on TBC models and assessment tools to help teams get started on action period assignments.
Learning from marketing rapid development of medication messages that engage...LydiaKGreen
The document describes a study that partnered healthcare researchers with advertising professionals to develop advertising-style messages to encourage patients with chronic kidney disease to discuss medication options with their doctors. They aimed to assess the feasibility of this partnership approach and test whether the messages would be acceptable and effective. The teams created 11 initial messages, tested them with patients and doctors via surveys, refined 5 messages, and conducted focus groups to identify the 3 most persuasive messages. Focus group feedback suggested the approach could be acceptable if used to support patient-provider relationships and had an evidence base, and that messages were more motivating if they elicited personal identification and clear understanding.
This document discusses team-based care in the context of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model. It outlines six key qualities of effective team-based care: 1) a physician servant leader, 2) a clear mission and goals, 3) defined roles, 4) strong communication, 5) optimized systems, and 6) enhanced training. The article then provides strategies for implementing team-based care in small practices, noting they have limited resources but are adaptable, and in larger practices with multiple locations. Overall, the document emphasizes that developing the right team is essential before practices can transform to the patient-centered medical home model.
The Physician Task Force's How-to Guide will help both clinicians and C-suite executives identify which mobile tools are needed and worth investing in.
What Is Client Directed Outcome InformedScott Miller
Client Directed Outcome Informed (CDOI) clinical work privileges the client's perspective and uses their feedback to guide treatment in a partnership between client and provider. Several mental health and substance abuse treatment organizations that have implemented CDOI report improved outcomes like higher retention rates and lower costs from reduced sessions and cancellations. Research shows involving clients in decisions about their treatment and focusing on whether treatment is working improves success rates by an average of 65%.
Cherye Morgan is a Director at Navigant Consulting who has over 25 years of experience advising healthcare clients on performance improvement and clinical effectiveness. She has held executive roles at large consulting firms such as Accenture and Capgemini as well as healthcare organizations. Morgan has extensive experience designing strategies and operationalizing improvements for providers and payers in areas such as clinical operations, quality, and compliance. She is skilled at leading teams and projects to generate cost savings and innovative solutions for complex healthcare organizations.
Weitzman 2013: PCORI: Transforming Health CareCHC Connecticut
This document summarizes a presentation given by Joe Selby on the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). It discusses PCORI's mission to fund comparative clinical effectiveness research that is guided by patients and other stakeholders. Key points include: PCORI's focus on research questions of interest to patients and providers; its criteria for funding proposals, including patient-centeredness and engagement; and its plans to significantly increase funding for such research over time. Examples are given of funded pilot projects involving community health centers.
Improving Patients’ Health Acute Care FinalmHealth2015
mHealth strategies have the potential to improve patient health and outcomes before, during, and after emergency department visits. By facilitating patient triage and decision making before visits, improving communication during visits, and enhancing health literacy and behavior change support after visits, mHealth can help emergency departments improve throughput and post-discharge outcomes. This can increase revenue, avoid penalties, and improve patient satisfaction. Two case studies show that text messaging improved satisfaction scores and appointment adherence for discharged patients from emergency departments.
An enhanced care management program achieved lower health care costs through broader outreach, personalized health coaching, and engagement of higher-risk populations. A randomized controlled trial of 175,000 individuals found that the enhanced program led to a $7.96 lower average monthly medical cost per member and over a 4:1 return on investment. Key aspects of the enhanced program included targeting a wider range of chronic and preference-sensitive conditions, more frequent outreach, and deeper health coaching relationships.
This document discusses the essential elements of population health management and value-based healthcare delivery. It explains that population health management involves proactively managing the health of groups using strategies, interventions and technology. Value-based healthcare focuses on improving outcomes and lowering costs. The document provides objectives around understanding new roles in these models and examples of best practices. It poses questions in different areas like access, care coordination, analytics and outcomes to evaluate practices.
PCOMS and an Acute Care Inpatient Unit: Quality Improvement and Reduced Readm...Barry Duncan
High psychiatric readmission rates continue while evidence suggests that care is not perceived by patients as “patient centered.” Research has focused on aftercare strategies with little attention to the inpatient treatment itself as an intervention to reduce readmission rates. Quality improvement strategies based on patient-centered care may offer an alternative. We evaluated outcomes and readmission rates using a benchmarking methodology with a naturalistic data set from an inpatient psychiatric facility (N 2,247) that used a quality-improvement strategy called systematic patient feedback. A systematic patient feedback system, the Partners for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS), was used. Overall pre-post effect sizes were d 1.33 and d 1.38 for patients diagnosed with a mood
disorder. These effect sizes were statistically equivalent to RCT benchmarks for feedback and depression.
Readmission rates were 6.1% (30 days), 9.5% (60 days), and 16.4% (180 days), all lower than national benchmarks. We also found that patients who achieved clinically significant treatment outcomes were less likely to be readmitted. We tentatively suggest that a focus on real-time patient outcomes as well as care that is “patient centered” may provide lower readmission rates.
Over half of patients at a rehabilitation hospital reported wanting greater involvement in their care decisions. To address this, the hospital conducted patient and family shadowing where observers followed patients to experience care from their perspective. This identified themes like explanations during rounds and involvement in discharge plans. A post-intervention survey found a statistically significant improvement in patients feeling involved in care decisions and clinically relevant improvements in understanding doctor explanations and recommending the hospital. Engaging medical leaders and balancing data with reflection time led doctors to change practices without formal rules.
Weitzman 2013 Relative patient benefits of a hospital-PCMH collaboration with...CHC Connecticut
Anuj K Dalal presents information on a PCORI research grant: Relative patient benefits of a hospital-PCMH collaboration within an ACO to improve care transitions.
The document examines how the NHS measures quality of care for people with mental health conditions or a learning disability. It finds that there is a lack of research into quality measurement for this group compared to other areas of healthcare. Additionally, quality measurement often focuses on metrics and minimum standards rather than the cultures and values that could lead to improved care. The paper suggests dimensionalising quality measures into more specific areas like nursing care, food services, and health outcomes to better guide quality improvement efforts.
Closing the Loop: Strategies to Extend Care in the EDEngagingPatients
This HIMSS15 presentation discusses the challenges faced in hospital emergency departments and offers insights for implementing a process to follow up with discharged ED patients to enhance outcomes and satisfaction,while optimizing utilization and reducing risk.
Provider profiling creates a 3600 profile of a Provider, which details valuable performance information about their practice like care-gaps, cost of care and average quality outcomes (based on member claim history). It also benchmarks providers against their peers to provide an overall rank and rating group (1-3 stars). This document attempts to describe approach towards provider profiling.
This document describes a study that tested an integrated disease management (IDM) protocol compared to traditional telephonic disease management (TDM). The IDM protocol combined TDM with a worksite-based primary care center and pharmacy. The study aimed to improve patient contact and enrollment rates in disease management programs. A population of 7,818 employees and dependents was identified as having diabetes, coronary artery disease, or hypertension. Patients were assigned to either the IDM protocol if they used the worksite clinic, or the TDM protocol if they did not. The study found the IDM protocol significantly improved contact and enrollment rates over the TDM protocol, demonstrating higher patient engagement. Adopting the IDM approach was recommended to improve
Ueda2015 tupelo.nurses role in dm prevention dr.martyn molnarueda2015
This document proposes a study to validate the role of nurses in diabetes prevention and management through the use of remote monitoring technologies. The study would randomize over 1,000 patients and 30 nurses into groups testing a standard diabetes program versus a program utilizing TupeloLife's remote monitoring platform. The platform program would train nurses and allow real-time data collection from devices, remote consultations, automated reminders and alerts, and analytics to improve outcomes. The study aims to show improved clinical indicators, goal achievement, self-efficacy, satisfaction and cost-effectiveness for the remote platform program compared to standard care.
The Partners for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS) uses brief scales completed by clients at each session to provide feedback on client progress and the therapeutic alliance. This allows clinicians to identify clients at risk for negative outcomes early. Five randomized clinical trials have shown that PCOMS significantly improves treatment outcomes and reduces costs by shortening treatment length and increasing provider productivity. Hundreds of organizations in the U.S. and other countries have implemented PCOMS, which involves clients in their care while respecting clinicians' time.
Building the Case for Implementing Postgraduate Residency Training ProgramCHC Connecticut
Community Health Center, Inc. is proposing to implement postgraduate residency programs for nurse practitioners and clinical psychologists. Residencies would provide intensive clinical training over 12 months to address workforce shortages and reduce burnout. Core elements include precepted clinics, specialty rotations, didactics, and quality improvement training. Residencies aim to develop expert clinicians prepared to lead community health centers. While start-up costs are required, residencies may increase retention, productivity, and recruitment over time, providing a return on investment. Residencies can smooth new providers' transition to independent practice.
Clinical Workforce Development NCA Informational WebinarCHC Connecticut
Learn more about training and technical assistance offered through Community Health Center Inc.'s National Cooperative Agreement (NCA) on Clinical Workforce Development. Hear more about FREE Learning Collaboratives opportunities to enhance or implement a model of Team-Based Care at your Health Center, and how to implement a Post-Graduate Residency program for Nurse Practitioners and Post-Doc Clinical Psychologists.
The document analyzes contents pages from college magazines to understand their features. It chose to examine contents pages from past years' magazines that were found online. The purpose was to gain an understanding of what a contents page from a college magazine typically includes.
El documento proporciona información sobre distribuciones de frecuencia, frecuencias absolutas y relativas, frecuencias acumuladas y relativas acumuladas. También explica los intervalos de clase, la formación de intervalos, y cómo calcular la media, mediana y moda de un conjunto de datos. Incluye ejemplos para ilustrar cada concepto.
This document discusses team-based care in the context of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model. It outlines six key qualities of effective team-based care: 1) a physician servant leader, 2) a clear mission and goals, 3) defined roles, 4) strong communication, 5) optimized systems, and 6) enhanced training. The article then provides strategies for implementing team-based care in small practices, noting they have limited resources but are adaptable, and in larger practices with multiple locations. Overall, the document emphasizes that developing the right team is essential before practices can transform to the patient-centered medical home model.
The Physician Task Force's How-to Guide will help both clinicians and C-suite executives identify which mobile tools are needed and worth investing in.
What Is Client Directed Outcome InformedScott Miller
Client Directed Outcome Informed (CDOI) clinical work privileges the client's perspective and uses their feedback to guide treatment in a partnership between client and provider. Several mental health and substance abuse treatment organizations that have implemented CDOI report improved outcomes like higher retention rates and lower costs from reduced sessions and cancellations. Research shows involving clients in decisions about their treatment and focusing on whether treatment is working improves success rates by an average of 65%.
Cherye Morgan is a Director at Navigant Consulting who has over 25 years of experience advising healthcare clients on performance improvement and clinical effectiveness. She has held executive roles at large consulting firms such as Accenture and Capgemini as well as healthcare organizations. Morgan has extensive experience designing strategies and operationalizing improvements for providers and payers in areas such as clinical operations, quality, and compliance. She is skilled at leading teams and projects to generate cost savings and innovative solutions for complex healthcare organizations.
Weitzman 2013: PCORI: Transforming Health CareCHC Connecticut
This document summarizes a presentation given by Joe Selby on the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). It discusses PCORI's mission to fund comparative clinical effectiveness research that is guided by patients and other stakeholders. Key points include: PCORI's focus on research questions of interest to patients and providers; its criteria for funding proposals, including patient-centeredness and engagement; and its plans to significantly increase funding for such research over time. Examples are given of funded pilot projects involving community health centers.
Improving Patients’ Health Acute Care FinalmHealth2015
mHealth strategies have the potential to improve patient health and outcomes before, during, and after emergency department visits. By facilitating patient triage and decision making before visits, improving communication during visits, and enhancing health literacy and behavior change support after visits, mHealth can help emergency departments improve throughput and post-discharge outcomes. This can increase revenue, avoid penalties, and improve patient satisfaction. Two case studies show that text messaging improved satisfaction scores and appointment adherence for discharged patients from emergency departments.
An enhanced care management program achieved lower health care costs through broader outreach, personalized health coaching, and engagement of higher-risk populations. A randomized controlled trial of 175,000 individuals found that the enhanced program led to a $7.96 lower average monthly medical cost per member and over a 4:1 return on investment. Key aspects of the enhanced program included targeting a wider range of chronic and preference-sensitive conditions, more frequent outreach, and deeper health coaching relationships.
This document discusses the essential elements of population health management and value-based healthcare delivery. It explains that population health management involves proactively managing the health of groups using strategies, interventions and technology. Value-based healthcare focuses on improving outcomes and lowering costs. The document provides objectives around understanding new roles in these models and examples of best practices. It poses questions in different areas like access, care coordination, analytics and outcomes to evaluate practices.
PCOMS and an Acute Care Inpatient Unit: Quality Improvement and Reduced Readm...Barry Duncan
High psychiatric readmission rates continue while evidence suggests that care is not perceived by patients as “patient centered.” Research has focused on aftercare strategies with little attention to the inpatient treatment itself as an intervention to reduce readmission rates. Quality improvement strategies based on patient-centered care may offer an alternative. We evaluated outcomes and readmission rates using a benchmarking methodology with a naturalistic data set from an inpatient psychiatric facility (N 2,247) that used a quality-improvement strategy called systematic patient feedback. A systematic patient feedback system, the Partners for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS), was used. Overall pre-post effect sizes were d 1.33 and d 1.38 for patients diagnosed with a mood
disorder. These effect sizes were statistically equivalent to RCT benchmarks for feedback and depression.
Readmission rates were 6.1% (30 days), 9.5% (60 days), and 16.4% (180 days), all lower than national benchmarks. We also found that patients who achieved clinically significant treatment outcomes were less likely to be readmitted. We tentatively suggest that a focus on real-time patient outcomes as well as care that is “patient centered” may provide lower readmission rates.
Over half of patients at a rehabilitation hospital reported wanting greater involvement in their care decisions. To address this, the hospital conducted patient and family shadowing where observers followed patients to experience care from their perspective. This identified themes like explanations during rounds and involvement in discharge plans. A post-intervention survey found a statistically significant improvement in patients feeling involved in care decisions and clinically relevant improvements in understanding doctor explanations and recommending the hospital. Engaging medical leaders and balancing data with reflection time led doctors to change practices without formal rules.
Weitzman 2013 Relative patient benefits of a hospital-PCMH collaboration with...CHC Connecticut
Anuj K Dalal presents information on a PCORI research grant: Relative patient benefits of a hospital-PCMH collaboration within an ACO to improve care transitions.
The document examines how the NHS measures quality of care for people with mental health conditions or a learning disability. It finds that there is a lack of research into quality measurement for this group compared to other areas of healthcare. Additionally, quality measurement often focuses on metrics and minimum standards rather than the cultures and values that could lead to improved care. The paper suggests dimensionalising quality measures into more specific areas like nursing care, food services, and health outcomes to better guide quality improvement efforts.
Closing the Loop: Strategies to Extend Care in the EDEngagingPatients
This HIMSS15 presentation discusses the challenges faced in hospital emergency departments and offers insights for implementing a process to follow up with discharged ED patients to enhance outcomes and satisfaction,while optimizing utilization and reducing risk.
Provider profiling creates a 3600 profile of a Provider, which details valuable performance information about their practice like care-gaps, cost of care and average quality outcomes (based on member claim history). It also benchmarks providers against their peers to provide an overall rank and rating group (1-3 stars). This document attempts to describe approach towards provider profiling.
This document describes a study that tested an integrated disease management (IDM) protocol compared to traditional telephonic disease management (TDM). The IDM protocol combined TDM with a worksite-based primary care center and pharmacy. The study aimed to improve patient contact and enrollment rates in disease management programs. A population of 7,818 employees and dependents was identified as having diabetes, coronary artery disease, or hypertension. Patients were assigned to either the IDM protocol if they used the worksite clinic, or the TDM protocol if they did not. The study found the IDM protocol significantly improved contact and enrollment rates over the TDM protocol, demonstrating higher patient engagement. Adopting the IDM approach was recommended to improve
Ueda2015 tupelo.nurses role in dm prevention dr.martyn molnarueda2015
This document proposes a study to validate the role of nurses in diabetes prevention and management through the use of remote monitoring technologies. The study would randomize over 1,000 patients and 30 nurses into groups testing a standard diabetes program versus a program utilizing TupeloLife's remote monitoring platform. The platform program would train nurses and allow real-time data collection from devices, remote consultations, automated reminders and alerts, and analytics to improve outcomes. The study aims to show improved clinical indicators, goal achievement, self-efficacy, satisfaction and cost-effectiveness for the remote platform program compared to standard care.
The Partners for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS) uses brief scales completed by clients at each session to provide feedback on client progress and the therapeutic alliance. This allows clinicians to identify clients at risk for negative outcomes early. Five randomized clinical trials have shown that PCOMS significantly improves treatment outcomes and reduces costs by shortening treatment length and increasing provider productivity. Hundreds of organizations in the U.S. and other countries have implemented PCOMS, which involves clients in their care while respecting clinicians' time.
Building the Case for Implementing Postgraduate Residency Training ProgramCHC Connecticut
Community Health Center, Inc. is proposing to implement postgraduate residency programs for nurse practitioners and clinical psychologists. Residencies would provide intensive clinical training over 12 months to address workforce shortages and reduce burnout. Core elements include precepted clinics, specialty rotations, didactics, and quality improvement training. Residencies aim to develop expert clinicians prepared to lead community health centers. While start-up costs are required, residencies may increase retention, productivity, and recruitment over time, providing a return on investment. Residencies can smooth new providers' transition to independent practice.
Clinical Workforce Development NCA Informational WebinarCHC Connecticut
Learn more about training and technical assistance offered through Community Health Center Inc.'s National Cooperative Agreement (NCA) on Clinical Workforce Development. Hear more about FREE Learning Collaboratives opportunities to enhance or implement a model of Team-Based Care at your Health Center, and how to implement a Post-Graduate Residency program for Nurse Practitioners and Post-Doc Clinical Psychologists.
The document analyzes contents pages from college magazines to understand their features. It chose to examine contents pages from past years' magazines that were found online. The purpose was to gain an understanding of what a contents page from a college magazine typically includes.
El documento proporciona información sobre distribuciones de frecuencia, frecuencias absolutas y relativas, frecuencias acumuladas y relativas acumuladas. También explica los intervalos de clase, la formación de intervalos, y cómo calcular la media, mediana y moda de un conjunto de datos. Incluye ejemplos para ilustrar cada concepto.
The document analyzes the contents pages of different music magazines to understand their structure and layout. It finds that magazines generally include the magazine logo and heading, issue date and number, section headings, article names and short summaries, images, and consistent layouts across issues. The contents pages are designed to be visually appealing and easy to read while highlighting key articles and sections to attract readers.
Louisiana Tech defeated Rice 42-17. LA Tech improves to 6-3 on the season and remains atop the Western Division in Conference USA at 4-1. With the victory, LA Tech becomes bowl eligible for the fourth time in five years. Quarterback Jeff Driskel threw for a career-high 4 touchdowns and 320 yards as LA Tech scored 28 unanswered points. The LA Tech defense held Rice to just 19 rushing yards in the first half and seven first half points.
Saab training & simulation dsa media briefÖrjan Wester
This document discusses Saab's training and simulation systems. It outlines that Saab provides live, virtual, and constructive training domains for land, air, and naval forces. The training systems aim to improve operational capability and combat effectiveness by providing realistic training in a safe environment. Saab's solutions include full immersion simulators, computer-based training, and command and staff simulation systems. The goal is to enable soldiers to practice future combat operations in advance through high-fidelity simulation.
The document summarizes the key elements of a magazine contents page layout. It discusses how the contents page is structured using columns to make it easier to read. It also notes how elements like the magazine heading, date line, section headings and article names/synopses are used to identify the publication, set it in time, and entice readers to learn more about certain articles. The main image is also described as a way to attract readers' eyes to a featured article. Consistent branding elements and color schemes help the contents page feel recognizable to regular readers.
The document discusses the author's experimentation with using lines in photographs for their college magazine. They realized lines were too structured and instead focused on backgrounds and subjects to give photos a relaxed, everyday feel fitting the magazine genre. One low-angle shot of a subject unaware on a line gives a sense of candid reality, while an unfocused shot without precision doesn't create an evident line or sharp subject and doesn't fit the magazine's style. Using a path in contrasting surroundings draws the eye along the line effectively.
This document provides a summary of Dr. Monica Shahbaznia Alvarez's credentials, including her education, clinical experience, research experience, presentations, training, affiliations, and languages spoken. She has over 15 years of clinical experience working with children, adolescents, families and medical teams. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Alliant International University and has held various clinical roles, including independent practice and positions at hospitals.
This document analyzes two page spreads from magazines. It summarizes four different spreads, noting key details about the color scheme, images, fonts, and layout in each. Color schemes emphasize themes like femininity, individuality, and danger. Images convey confidence, unpredictability, and emotionlessness. Fonts are used to draw attention and convey sophistication or casualness. Layouts follow conventions but sometimes feature unusual elements like large headings.
Lily is a transgender girl who is struggling with her identity and coming out to her parents. She enjoys dressing and presenting as a girl in private but faces rejection from her parents when they discover her identity. After a fight with her parents where they refuse to accept her, she runs away from home on a train. The story explores Lily's journey of self-discovery and seeking acceptance.
This short document promotes creating presentations using Haiku Deck, an online presentation tool. It displays two stock photos and text encouraging the reader to get started making their own Haiku Deck presentation. In just a few clicks, users can design beautiful presentations to share on SlideShare.
This short document promotes creating presentations using Haiku Deck, an online presentation tool. It includes two stock photos and suggests that the reader may be inspired to make their own Haiku Deck presentation. A brief call to action is given to get started creating a presentation on SlideShare.
Pardam is a company that produces inorganic and polymeric nanofibers through centrifugal spinning and electrospinning. They offer contract production of nanofibers as well as research and development services. Their products include nanofibrous materials for applications such as batteries, catalysts, filtration, and biomedical uses.
This document provides an introduction to a group project exploring how historical art has been referenced or appropriated in popular culture. It discusses how art has become iconic and how pop culture can reference familiar images to convey new meanings. The introduction examines how understanding art history is relevant for global citizens and how art asks profound questions about the meaning of life. It also discusses how contemporary art may illuminate or have underlying motives and how the creative process involves both continuity and transformation.
1. The document analyzes seismic pounding between adjacent buildings constructed without sufficient separation. A 10-story and 7-story building model were analyzed using SAP2000 software.
2. Parameters like displacement and impact force were considered. Different cases were analyzed including buildings at the same floor level, different floor levels, and with a 4m setback.
3. Maximum impact forces of 2300KN, 1250KN, 2200KN, and 2220KN were recorded for each case respectively, indicating pounding would occur between the buildings. Mitigation measures like bracing and shear walls were recommended to reduce lateral displacement and pounding.
Wessex AHSN is pleased to announce the publication of a short report on the evaluation of how people feel when they experience new models of care. The report has been produced in partnership with R-Outcomes and the Centre for Implementation Science (University of Southampton) and responds to local evaluation guidance, published by NHS England in June 2017, that calls for a strengthened focus on capturing and evaluating patient and residents’ experience of transformed services.
Using the Patient Activation Measure to improve quality of care for patients ...Ben Harris-Roxas
The document summarizes research using the Patient Activation Measure (PAM) to improve quality of care for patients with chronic conditions. The PAM gauges a patient's knowledge, skills, and confidence in managing their own health. The research included a literature review finding the PAM has been used to tailor care and assess risk profiles. A retrospective audit in one local health district found the PAM score improved after a pulmonary rehabilitation program. A pilot study is currently testing using the PAM in clinical practice to improve quality of care. Barriers and facilitators to implementing the PAM as a tailoring tool are being examined.
Understanding and Facilitating EAP Behavioral Health Utilization: Research Fi...Bernie McCann
This document summarizes research findings from a study of EAP behavioral health utilization. It provides an overview of 5 research questions examined including employee perspectives on EAP and how it helped with issues. It found the top issues were mental health, family concerns, and job stress. Employers chose various EAP benefit designs and worksite activities. Higher EAP promotion and activities were linked to greater utilization. Integrated EAP/MBHC plans had greater use than standalone MBHC. For enrollees with substance abuse, most used both EAP and MBHC or MBHC only. Greater EAP benefits and use were associated with reduced later MBHC use and costs.
Marita Schifalacqua, RN, MSN, NEA-BC, FAAN,
Chris Costello, MEng, MBA, and Wendy Denman, RNC, BBM, BSN, MSN
Roadmap for Planned Change, Part 2
Bar-Coded Medication Administration
hange—savored by some and feared by many.
How do you as nurse leaders use your
knowledge and insight to move forward and transfer
your vision for quality and safety into reality? What do
you need to do to get key stakeholders on the bus and,
in some cases, even drive the bus? The roadmap for
planned change allows for an infrastructure of thought
brought to increase the likelihood for successful
change. Successful change is important to our patients
and to us as providers of that care.
This article, the second of a two-part series,
focuses on the application of change theory and the
elements of project management most critical to
successfully implementing a bar-coded medication
administration (BCMA) program. Examples will be
from one hospital’s experience, Saint Francis Medical
Center in Grand Island, Nebraska, to a health
system’s (Catholic Health Initiatives, Denver, Colorado)
approach to planning for 30 hospitals.
The definition of the BCMA program includes a
consistent, integrated information technology strategy,
with a focus on point-of-care BCMA to ensure that the
right person receives the right medication, in the right
dosage, via the right route, at the right time (five
rights). The bar code on medication is scanned before
administration to patients.
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APPLICATION OF CHANGE THEORY AND
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
The first article discusses concepts and tools of both change
leadership and project management that lend support in plan-
ning and managing large- or small-scale change. Change lead-
ership is a common methodology of theory and tools that,
when used routinely, are central to integrating a change man-
agement model with the people side of change.
Project management is an application of knowledge, skills,
tools, and techniques customized to the initiative.The project
management elements discussed in the first article that are
most critical to successfully implementing planned change are
project charter, project budget and budget management, proj-
ect plan and schedule management, project staff organization,
project communications management, and project risk and
issue management.
CURRENT STATE ANALYSIS
Changing a process as complex as BCMA can and will
impact a variety of stakeholders. It is important to review
the process of medication administration from the time the
medication enters the facility through the time that the med-
ication is billed to the patient. Employees working in depart-
ments that will experience change with BCMA need to
know that their role is important and that their viewpoint
is valued.
Leadership
The chief nursing officer and vice president of ancillary services
were the executive cosponsors of the project.There was a
BCMA stee ...
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NONPF - 1NURSE PRACTITIONER CORE COMPETENCIES April 201.docxkendalfarrier
NONPF - 1
NURSE PRACTITIONER CORE COMPETENCIES
April 2011
Amended 2012*
Task Force Members
Anne C. Thomas, PhD, ANP-BC, GNP - Chair
M. Katherine Crabtree, DNSc, FAAN, APRN-BC
Kathleen R. Delaney, PhD, PMH-NP
Mary Anne Dumas, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FAANP
Ruth Kleinpell, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCCM
M. Cynthia Logsdon, PhD, WHNP-BC, FAAN
Julie Marfell, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP
Donna G. Nativio, PhD, CRNP, FAAN
Note: Terms in bold are defined within the glossary found at the end of the competencies.
Preamble
In August 2008, NONPF endorsed the evolution of the Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) as the entry
level for nurse practitioner (NP) practice (NONPF, 2008a). Nurse practitioner education, which is based
upon the NONPF competencies, recognizes that the student’s ability to show successful achievement of
the NONPF competencies for NP education is of greater value than the number of clinical hours the
student has performed (NONPF, 2008b).
The Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies (NP Core Competencies) integrate and build upon existing
Master’s and DNP core competencies and are guidelines for educational programs preparing NPs to
implement the full scope of practice as a licensed independent practitioner. The competencies are
essential behaviors of all NPs. These competencies are demonstrated upon graduation regardless of the
population focus of the program and are necessary for NPs to meet the complex challenges of translating
rapidly expanding knowledge into practice and function in a changing health care environment.
Nurse Practitioner graduates have knowledge, skills, and abilities that are essential to independent
clinical practice. The NP Core Competencies are acquired through mentored patient care experiences
with emphasis on independent and interprofessional practice; analytic skills for evaluating and
providing evidence-based, patient centered care across settings; and advanced knowledge of the
health care delivery system. Doctorally-prepared NPs apply knowledge of scientific foundations in
practice for quality care. They are able to apply skills in technology and information literacy, and engage
in practice inquiry to improve health outcomes, policy, and healthcare delivery. Areas of increased
knowledge, skills, and expertise include advanced communication skills, collaboration, complex decision
making, leadership, and the business of health care. The competencies elaborated here build upon
previous work that identified knowledge and skills essential to DNP competencies (AACN 1996; AACN,
2006; NONPF & National Panel, 2006) and are consistent with the recommendations of the Institute of
Medicine’s report, The Future of Nursing (IOM, 2011).
At completion of the NP program, the NP graduate possesses the nine (9) core competencies regardless
of population focus.
* Amended as result of additional validation through the 2011-2012 Population-Focused Competencies Task Force.
Competencies 7, 6, & 7 .
The document discusses different treatment models for substance abuse, including the Disease/Minnesota Model, Therapeutic Community (TC) Model, and Narconon Model. It analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of each model based on interviews with staff and patients. Key findings include that a holistic approach addressing physical, mental, and spiritual health promotes recovery over a singular focus. However, language used in some models emphasizing powerlessness, incurability and lifelong addiction can be disempowering to patients. Both staff and patients recommend improvements like increased physical activities and specialist training.
Patient engagement is a critical element of successful transitions of care. Without it, patients are improperly educated about their condition and inadequately prepared to self-manage.
Healthcare organizations need effective and scalable ways of engaging patients post-discharge.
Running Head BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES1BEHAVIORAL HEALTH .docxsusanschei
The Louisiana Medicaid program provides various behavioral health services. These include addiction services, crisis intervention, group psychotherapy, and psychosocial rehabilitation. The program also coordinates care between providers and conducts surveys to assess provider satisfaction and improve services. Sentinel events are rare medical errors that are investigated. Overall, the program aims to improve access and expand services to meet growing demand, while ensuring care is accessible to all.
Primary Health Care Strategy:
Key Directions for the Information Environment. Case study report and composite success model.
Steve Creed & Philip Gander
This document discusses using progress monitoring and outcome measures to enhance counselling, psychotherapy, and other talking interventions for student mental health. It provides an overview of progress monitoring versus outcome assessment and lists desirable characteristics of outcome measures. The document discusses how outcome measures can be used therapeutically, to help practitioners improve, for clinical supervision, and to shape service delivery. It also provides examples of outcome measures used at the University of Cumbria's mental health and wellbeing service and tips for using patient-rated outcome measures.
NURS FPX 4050 Assessment 3 Care Coordination Presentation to Colleagues.docxstirlingvwriters
This document provides instructions for a nursing student to develop a 20-minute presentation for colleagues on care coordination fundamentals. It includes an introduction defining care coordination and its importance. It also outlines key factors to address, such as community resources, ethics, policy issues, and change management. The student is instructed to create a 4-5 page script and record a video presentation. A reference list is also required.
It’s all in the detail developing effective health-related job aidsMalaria Consortium
Malaria Consortium has extensive experience developing job aids for community health workers and health facility workers in several countries. They have identified six key criteria for effective job aids based on this experience: 1) communicate complex information simply, 2) ensure accurate and up-to-date content aligned with health policies, 3) provide clear decision pathways, 4) describe tasks aligned with training and practice, 5) use appropriate language, illustrations and symbols, and 6) produce durable, cost-effective materials. The response provides examples from Mozambique, Uganda and other countries of applying these lessons to design simplified job aids that health workers can easily understand and use to improve performance.
Overview of PCOMS and couple and family therapy.
Duncan, B., & Sparks, J. (2017). The Partners for Change Outcome Management System. In J. L. Lebow, A. L. Chambers, & D. C. Breunlin (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy (pp. 1-10). New York: Springer.
This document outlines a lecture on patient-centered care. It begins with defining patient-centered care as organizing healthcare around the patient's needs and preferences. It then discusses the benefits of implementing patient-centered care such as improved outcomes, satisfaction, and cost-effectiveness. The document also covers factors that contribute to patient-centered care like leadership support, technology to engage patients, and strategies for implementation like training and policies that promote continuity of care. Barriers to implementation include resistance to change and lack of clarity on initiating culture change. The role of nurses is also emphasized as most significant in daily patient-centered care delivery and implementation.
This article discusses the need for clinical pharmacists to develop skills in areas like communication, problem-solving, and emotional intelligence in order to effectively contribute as members of multidisciplinary medical teams. It analyzes the curricula of pharmacy programs and finds that courses focusing specifically on building these behavioral skills are lacking. The article argues that incorporating training on psychological and behavioral aspects would allow clinical pharmacists to better provide pharmaceutical care services and improve patient outcomes through collaborative work with other healthcare professionals. Universities are urged to include dedicated coursework on developing these types of soft skills to prepare pharmacists for patient-centered practice.
The Elderhaus PACE program in North Carolina aims to improve functional outcomes for elderly participants while reducing healthcare costs. Preliminary data shows that after 5 years of operation, 46% of participants improved their functional independence and 20% maintained their level, while utilizing less costly hospital and institutional care. The program organizes care plans around standard domains of biopsychosocial function and uses quantitative measures to document baseline functionality and improvements. Next steps include disseminating this care planning process to other PACE programs to measure its impact on outcomes and costs.
analysis of an addiction treatment facility EXPRESS CARE.pdfstirlingvwriters
The document provides information about the SOWK 432 signature assignment which involves interviewing a staff member at a substance abuse treatment facility and researching treatment for a specific addictive substance. It includes background information on various levels of addiction treatment services (outpatient, inpatient, residential) and sample interview questions for the facility staff member. The assistant summarizes the responses to the interview questions for the EXPRESS CARE facility in Williamsburg, KY, which provides outpatient substance abuse treatment services including counseling, medication-assisted treatment with Suboxone, and encourages 12-step meeting attendance.
This document discusses recommendations for revising a PowerPoint presentation template for a week 2 project. It recommends including only bullet points with citations in the slides and adding visual illustrations to better engage the audience. It also lists the names of group members working on a presentation about health promotion core competencies and the role of advanced practice nurses.
1. How Lingraphica’s online therapy software
helped improve patient outcomes and
satisfaction scores in a long-term care setting
L
ingraphica has a proven track record of helping people with
communication and cognitive challenges, including adults
with acquired aphasia and related disorders.
Our studies document widespread benefits to using our
offerings, including diminished impairment, improved functional
communication, increased self-confidence, lowered cueing
requirements, expanded locus of control, enhanced sense of
autonomous agency, and high levels of satisfaction.
With a constantly changing healthcare setting, Lingraphica’s
research-backed and clinically supported offerings are now being
used in new settings like long-term care and rehabilitation facilities,
allowing for greater online therapy opportunities for patients and
their clinicians.
In this study overview, we review how Lingraphica’s online therapy
software helped improve patient outcomes and quality measures in
the long-term care setting.
ONLINE THERAPY IN
A LONG-TERM CARE SETTING:
Improving Patient Outcomes & Reducing Costs
STUDY OVERVIEW
The study overview is based on a white paper
prepared for publication by Dr. Richard Steele
in June 2016. As Lingraphica’s Chief Scientist,
Dr. Steele is responsible for the company’s
treatment technology as well as the research
on its effectiveness. Prior to founding
Lingraphica, he was a Research Health
Scientist at the Rehabilitation Research and
Development Center of the Palo Alto Veterans
Administration Medical Center. He holds a BS
in Physics from Stanford University and an MA
and PhD in Slavic Languages and Linguistics
from Harvard University. He holds three U.S.
patents related to rehabilitation.
2. LONG-TERM CARE CHALLENGES
In today’s changing healthcare system, care providers are facing
numerous new challenges. With an aging population and more
elderly adults turning to nursing facilities for long-term care,
the U.S. healthcare system is increasing the standards of care
applied in these settings. Long-term care administrators and
clinicians are reporting new pressures, especially related to four
critical business metrics:
This document provides a case study between Lingraphica and
Hallmark Rehabilitation (‘Hallmark’), the operator of skilled nursing
facilities (SNFs) in several states. Hallmark is now owned and
operated by Genesis Rehabilitation. Together, Lingraphica and
Hallmark deployed Lingraphica’s TheraPath* offering to patients
residing in Hallmark’s facilities with the following three goals in mind:
1. To explore what happens when online speech therapy
exercises are used in ongoing SNF operations,
simultaneously in several states, with a focus on factors like
acceptability to staff and clients, levels and types of user
engagement over time, and responses.
2. To identify the benefits to stakeholders involved, including:
SNF residents, clinical staff and care extenders, and
operations administrators.
3. To determine if the exercises provided a financial benefit
to both parties.
Home Health
delivers services in place,
for clients with only modest
support needs.
Supported Living
Communities serve those
who require more assistance,
living in clustered home-
like accommodations with
access to communal dining
and resident activities.
Skilled Nursing Facilities
(SNFs) are residential
facilities serving those who
require daily assistance
in Activities of Daily
Living (ADLs) such as
transfer, bathing, dressing,
grooming, and Instrumental
ADLs (I-ADLs), such as
telephoning, doing laundry,
and taking transport.
[ long-term care ]
Arrangements to provide
support for the elderly are
called Long-Term Care, and
provided along a continuum:
Lowering
Operating
Costs
Maintaining
Compliance
with Medicare
Standards
Increasing
User
Satisfaction
STUDY OVERVIEW 2
Improving
Patient
Outcomes
*The platform was called TalkPath Therapy at the time of the study.
3. THE STUDY
Hallmark Rehabilitation selected four participating SNFs, which
were located in different cities and states. At these sites, local
staff selected residents who would receive one-month therapeutic
intervention as study subjects. Subjects were included based on a
combination of nursing referral, recent changes in scores on MDS
appraisals, and diagnostic risk factors such as stroke or progressive
neurodegenerative conditions.
Because we are dealing with a complex patient
population, the goals included focus on functional
expression, comprehension, responsive naming, problem
solving, memory, and even reading comprehension.
Populations have become increasingly complex in the LTC setting,
and that was seen with those who were included in this study. Many
residents had diagnosis that included dementia, past CVA, Mental
Status Change, depression, and anxiety.
Before starting the intervention, the treating therapist used TheraPath
tasks to establish a baseline in the areas of listening, speaking, reading,
and writing (exercises available at the time of the study). Additional
cognitive exercises now available address memory, reasoning/problem-
solving, and ADL themed tasks. The baseline allowed the clinician to
find a starting point at the beginning of the study.
Best practices show that using this tool in-session before assigning
exercises for a functional maintenance program (FMP) allows the
client and the facilitator to orient to the program so it can be used
successfully for the FMP. Each of the participants started out using
laptops, however, some had access to iPads and continued to use
those both during and after the pilot study.
Importantly, the study interventions also included the establishment
and implementation of FMPs for participating facility residents.
Functional Maintenance
Programs (FMPs) must be
set up by clinical speech-
language pathologists
serving the clients, after
proper assessments for this
purpose. However, once in
place, FMPs may be carried
out by care extenders such
as activity managers or
family members.
There is no therapeutic
dimension to FMPs, since
the goal is not to promote
improvement over time.
Rather, as the designation
Functional Maintenance
Program suggests, the
goal is to provide recipients
opportunities for stimulation
and engagement that may
stave off the functional
declines that often occur
otherwise, triggered by
feelings of neglect, isolation,
abandonment, or the like.
[ about FMPs ]
STUDY OVERVIEW 3
4. OUR FINDINGS
This pilot study shows that representative residents of LTC facilities
in the U.S. can benefit in important ways from the incorporation of
TheraPath offerings. Our conclusions remain preliminary, pending
larger-scale replication.
The investigation was designed to reflect real-world LTC settings,
with their commonly encountered issues, usual clinical practices,
and patient cohorts.
The benefits are shown to be both important
and widespread. LTC residents showed, for
example, mean improvements in both cognitive
orientation and in mood, as reflected in mean
score improvements from the BIMS and MOOD
assessments done quarterly.
Additionally, they displayed better auditory
comprehension, verbal expression, and
memory function as apparent from mean score
improvements, and NOMS scores, which were
recorded by treating clinicians at the beginning
and end of the one-month therapeutic intervention
using TheraPath. In addition, the study showed
the feasibility and desirability of having SLPs set
up functional maintenance programs at the end
of a therapeutic intervention. Overall, patients’
psychological responses to these introductions
were positive, so much so that we believe we
reduced the risk factors associated with the
prescription of psychotropic medications.
Patients & Care
Extenders Reported:
Improved Mood
Improved Cognitive Orientation
Improved Auditory
Comprehension
Improved Expression
Improved Memory Functioning
Reduced risk factors associated
with the prescription of
psychotropic medications
Increased Engagement of Patients
and Care Extenders with
TheraPath materials
Increased Enthusiasm from Care
Extenders using FMP
with participants
[ study findings ]
STUDY OVERVIEW 4
BIMS Scores
MDS Scores
5. The introduction of functional maintenance programs yielded a
further benefit: it provided meaningful and rewarding roles for
care extenders in supporting LTC residents. Care extenders are
individuals who do not have professional healthcare training or
clinical credentials of skilled LTC staff, but who provide important
services. This includes: family members, activities managers,
graduate students, and volunteers. In the case of the FMPs set up
by the clinicians using TheraPath technologies, family members or
activity managers could help clients set up materials, navigate tasks,
understand responses, and share in enjoyment or surprise. Such
activities, especially the latter ones, are typically highly appreciated
by both LTC residents and family members.
For clinicians in these settings,
TheraPath tools provide an additional set
of empowering advantages.
Responses of LTC residents who use these highly stimulating,
interactive, multimodal materials are positive, as they extend users’
locus of control, promoting engagement in interface interactions.
With regard to SLPs’ clinical activities, TheraPath software provides
automated reporting modules that help automatically document
service delivery. And when skilled therapy is discontinued, the
TheraPath technology represents an integral and key component of
FMPs that were set up by SLPs for subsequent implementation by
care extenders.
Clinicians Reported:
Improved Tools to treat their clients
Improved Tools to generate
electronic medical records
of performance
Convenience of tool usage
Effective FMP opportunities
Administrators Reported:
Improved Tools to track
clinician activities
Improved Tools to track
patient activities
Improved Tools to track
facility activities
Improved Tools to compare
facility activities
Improved Tools to track changing
client activities
Improved Tools to track changing
patient outcomes
[ study findings ]
STUDY OVERVIEW 5
6. OUR SOLUTION
Given the widespread benefits – documented above – to SLPs and to
those whom they serve in LTC settings, the question arises: who else in
these settings would be candidates for TheraPath?
Arguably OTs and PTs in LTC settings represent such candidates,
assuming tools and contents were massaged to target to their
specialization areas. They work with the same clients, in the same
settings, with broadly similar goals, alongside SLPs, like those
involved in this study. One could also imagine administrators in such
LTC facilities appreciating a tool that provides an overview to look at
workforce deployment with a bird’s-eye view, while also permitting
them to drill down to lower levels of detail. Such tools would permit
better management of resources, better reviews of performance,
better comparisons of contributing components.
With a growing segment of the American
population moving into old age, and the projection
of a record number of elderly citizens in two
decades, it is important to prepare adequately to
meet the challenges they will pose.
Not all will move into LTC settings, but many will. Improving
LTC operations to yield more efficient service delivery, improved
outcomes, higher satisfaction levels, and lowered costs is
imperative. Properly developing and exploiting technology is an
essential element in achieving such results.
Ready to learn more about TheraPath
and how it can help your facility?
Contact us today at
888-681-4532
Corporate Reported:
Emphasis on Quality of Care
Engagement of families, feeling
of participation and worth
Clinically improved outcomes
and high user satisfaction
Data Analytics for identification
of clinical trends, outliers
Emphasis on Cost
Use of Care Extenders,
in Maintenance Programs
Lowered Medication Dependence
Electronic Documentation for
improved cost-effectiveness
Emphasis on Compliance
and Processes
Integrated across LTC operations
Appropriate support to
operational levels
Right supervision at all levels
– clinicians, departments,
facilities, corpoorations
Emphasis on Census
Extendable into other facilities
Scalable
[ study findings ]