The Kaiser Permanente Homeless Navigator Pilot Program in Woodland Hills, California connects homeless patients with community resources to help them find housing and other services, placing over 576 homeless patients in shelters and programs since 2012. The program uses a team approach involving medical, social work, and community staff. It has been successful in transforming lives and ending homelessness for many patients.
The Patient-Centered Medical Home Impact on Cost and Quality: An Annual Revie...CHC Connecticut
Dr. Nwando Olayiwola, Associate Director, Center for Excellence in Primary Care, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco addresses the 2014 Weitzman Symposium on The Patient-Centered Medical Home Impact on Cost and Quality: An Annual Review of Evidence
The Patient-Centered Medical Home in the Transformation From Healthcare to He...Paul Grundy
Surgeon General of the Navy VADM Matthew L. Nathan, MC USN
Fortunately, we have a way to address this crisis—the
Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model launched at Naval Hospital Pensacola and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland (formerly the National Naval Medical Center) in 2008. It is now being implemented throughout the Military Health System (MHS) and carries great promise. It provides the clinical framework we need to meet our strategic objectives in terms of quality of care, impact on costs, population health, and readiness. One of the most significant benefits of the team-based, collaborative approach is that it allows us to embed within a primary care environment the psychologists, nutritionists, tobacco cessation specialists, mind-body medicine therapists, and health educators our patients need in order to develop and maintain mindful, healthy behaviors—along with the “mental armor,” our active duty military personnel need to increase their operational effectiveness and their resiliency in bouncing back from stressful situations. As we move ahead with this more comprehensive approach to health, we can begin to better address so many of our patients for whom we can find no specific reason for pain and discomfort. The PCMH model also provides a positive impact on our costs. Early data reporting from the PCMH clinics at Bethesda show reduced visits to the emergency room, lowered pharmacy costs, and significant per beneficiary per year savings and improved Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set metrics, access, and patient satisfaction and trust. These positive impacts on the bottom line can be applied directly to improved costs or toward the reallocation of resources from reimbursing those who are sick to the population health-based programs that can make and keep our patients healthy.More significant, however, the PCMH environment allows us to go beyond mere collaboration and to a much more proactive approach to managing our patient populations. It is within the context of the medical home that we can begin to surround our patients with the tools and resources they need to move them from health care to health.
Patient Centered Medical home talk at WVUPaul Grundy
To employers the cost of healthcare is now a business issue and this talk is about what one large buyer IBM did to drive transformation via broad coalition with other large employers to form the Patient Centered Medical Home movement and the covenant between buyer and provider away from the garbage we now buy episodic uncoordinated disintegrated care. In the change of convenient conversation we have worked with the Primary care providers to give us coordinated, integrated, accessible and compressive care with a set of principles know as the Patient centered medical home.
A Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) happens when primary care healers keeping that core healing relationship with their patients step up to become specialists in Family and Community Medicine. The move is to the discipline of leading a team that delivers population health management, patent centered prevention, care that is coordination, comprehensive accessible 24/7 and integrated across a deliver system. PCMH happens when the specialists in Family and Community Medicine wake up every morning and ask the question how will my team improve the health of my community today?
All over the world three huge factors are in play that is driving the concept of Patient Centered Medical Home. They are:
1) Cost and demography
2) Information technology and data (information that is actionable will equal a demand for accountability by the payer or buyer of the care)
3) Consumer demand to engage healthcare differently (at least as well as they can their bank- on line) have a question about lab results why not e-mail?
But at its core it is a move toward integration of a healing relationship in primary care and population management all at the point of care with the tools to do just that.
This presentation explains the concept of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH), its function and its intended effects. A brief overview of the history of PCMH is also provided, as well as a discussion of its operational characteristics, its principles and outcomes, and what is expected in the future for the PCMH model.
National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence. Plenary talk Paul Grundy
explaining how the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) platform for healthcare deliver is more likely to support domestic violence prevention and creat a safer environment than the FFS episode of care system we are in now. The medical Home is a home for the data where the all the data goes and is held accountable this idea was first articulated by Dr. Calvin C.J. Sia, a Honolulu-based pediatrician in 1967.
This concept of the medical home was integrated with Ed Wagners Chronic disease Model and Thomas Bodenheimer Kevin Grumbach advanced/proactive primary care at the request of the Patient Centered Primary care Collaborative into a set of principles Know as the Joint principles of the Patient centered medical home.
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH), is a team based health care delivery set of principles led by a physician that provides comprehensive and continuous medical care to patients with the goal of obtaining maximized health outcomes. It is "an approach to providing comprehensive primary care for children, youth and adults" The provision PCMH medical homes allow better access to health care, increase satisfaction with care, and improve health. Joint principles that define a PCMH have been established through the cohesive efforts of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), American College of Physicians (ACP), and American Osteopathic Association (AOA).[10] Care coordination is an essential component of the PCMH. Care coordination requires additional resources such as health information technology, and appropriately trained staff to provide coordinated care through team-based models. Additionally, payment models that compensate PCMHs for their effort devoted to care coordination activities and patient-centered care management that fall outside the face-to-face patient encounter may help encourage coordination.
Patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) are intended to actively provide effective care by physician-led teams, Where patients take a leading role and responsibility. Objective: To determine whether the Walter Reed PCMH has reduced costs while at least maintaining if not improving access to and quality of care, and to determine
whether access, quality, and cost impacts differ by chronic condition status. Design, setting, and patients: This study
conducted a retrospective analysis using a patient-level utilization database to determine the impact of the Walter Reed PCMH on utilization and cost metrics, and a survey of enrollees in the Walter Reed PCMH to address access to care and quality of care. Outcome measures: Inpatient and outpatient utilization, per member per quarter costs, Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set metrics, and composite measures for access, patient satisfaction, provider communication, and customer service are included. Results: Costs were 11% lower for those with chronic conditions compared to 7% lower for those without. Since treating patients with chronic conditions is 4 times more costly than treating patients without such conditions, the vast majority of dollar savings are attributable to chronic care.
The Patient-Centered Medical Home Impact on Cost and Quality: An Annual Revie...CHC Connecticut
Dr. Nwando Olayiwola, Associate Director, Center for Excellence in Primary Care, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco addresses the 2014 Weitzman Symposium on The Patient-Centered Medical Home Impact on Cost and Quality: An Annual Review of Evidence
The Patient-Centered Medical Home in the Transformation From Healthcare to He...Paul Grundy
Surgeon General of the Navy VADM Matthew L. Nathan, MC USN
Fortunately, we have a way to address this crisis—the
Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model launched at Naval Hospital Pensacola and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland (formerly the National Naval Medical Center) in 2008. It is now being implemented throughout the Military Health System (MHS) and carries great promise. It provides the clinical framework we need to meet our strategic objectives in terms of quality of care, impact on costs, population health, and readiness. One of the most significant benefits of the team-based, collaborative approach is that it allows us to embed within a primary care environment the psychologists, nutritionists, tobacco cessation specialists, mind-body medicine therapists, and health educators our patients need in order to develop and maintain mindful, healthy behaviors—along with the “mental armor,” our active duty military personnel need to increase their operational effectiveness and their resiliency in bouncing back from stressful situations. As we move ahead with this more comprehensive approach to health, we can begin to better address so many of our patients for whom we can find no specific reason for pain and discomfort. The PCMH model also provides a positive impact on our costs. Early data reporting from the PCMH clinics at Bethesda show reduced visits to the emergency room, lowered pharmacy costs, and significant per beneficiary per year savings and improved Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set metrics, access, and patient satisfaction and trust. These positive impacts on the bottom line can be applied directly to improved costs or toward the reallocation of resources from reimbursing those who are sick to the population health-based programs that can make and keep our patients healthy.More significant, however, the PCMH environment allows us to go beyond mere collaboration and to a much more proactive approach to managing our patient populations. It is within the context of the medical home that we can begin to surround our patients with the tools and resources they need to move them from health care to health.
Patient Centered Medical home talk at WVUPaul Grundy
To employers the cost of healthcare is now a business issue and this talk is about what one large buyer IBM did to drive transformation via broad coalition with other large employers to form the Patient Centered Medical Home movement and the covenant between buyer and provider away from the garbage we now buy episodic uncoordinated disintegrated care. In the change of convenient conversation we have worked with the Primary care providers to give us coordinated, integrated, accessible and compressive care with a set of principles know as the Patient centered medical home.
A Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) happens when primary care healers keeping that core healing relationship with their patients step up to become specialists in Family and Community Medicine. The move is to the discipline of leading a team that delivers population health management, patent centered prevention, care that is coordination, comprehensive accessible 24/7 and integrated across a deliver system. PCMH happens when the specialists in Family and Community Medicine wake up every morning and ask the question how will my team improve the health of my community today?
All over the world three huge factors are in play that is driving the concept of Patient Centered Medical Home. They are:
1) Cost and demography
2) Information technology and data (information that is actionable will equal a demand for accountability by the payer or buyer of the care)
3) Consumer demand to engage healthcare differently (at least as well as they can their bank- on line) have a question about lab results why not e-mail?
But at its core it is a move toward integration of a healing relationship in primary care and population management all at the point of care with the tools to do just that.
This presentation explains the concept of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH), its function and its intended effects. A brief overview of the history of PCMH is also provided, as well as a discussion of its operational characteristics, its principles and outcomes, and what is expected in the future for the PCMH model.
National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence. Plenary talk Paul Grundy
explaining how the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) platform for healthcare deliver is more likely to support domestic violence prevention and creat a safer environment than the FFS episode of care system we are in now. The medical Home is a home for the data where the all the data goes and is held accountable this idea was first articulated by Dr. Calvin C.J. Sia, a Honolulu-based pediatrician in 1967.
This concept of the medical home was integrated with Ed Wagners Chronic disease Model and Thomas Bodenheimer Kevin Grumbach advanced/proactive primary care at the request of the Patient Centered Primary care Collaborative into a set of principles Know as the Joint principles of the Patient centered medical home.
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH), is a team based health care delivery set of principles led by a physician that provides comprehensive and continuous medical care to patients with the goal of obtaining maximized health outcomes. It is "an approach to providing comprehensive primary care for children, youth and adults" The provision PCMH medical homes allow better access to health care, increase satisfaction with care, and improve health. Joint principles that define a PCMH have been established through the cohesive efforts of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), American College of Physicians (ACP), and American Osteopathic Association (AOA).[10] Care coordination is an essential component of the PCMH. Care coordination requires additional resources such as health information technology, and appropriately trained staff to provide coordinated care through team-based models. Additionally, payment models that compensate PCMHs for their effort devoted to care coordination activities and patient-centered care management that fall outside the face-to-face patient encounter may help encourage coordination.
Patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) are intended to actively provide effective care by physician-led teams, Where patients take a leading role and responsibility. Objective: To determine whether the Walter Reed PCMH has reduced costs while at least maintaining if not improving access to and quality of care, and to determine
whether access, quality, and cost impacts differ by chronic condition status. Design, setting, and patients: This study
conducted a retrospective analysis using a patient-level utilization database to determine the impact of the Walter Reed PCMH on utilization and cost metrics, and a survey of enrollees in the Walter Reed PCMH to address access to care and quality of care. Outcome measures: Inpatient and outpatient utilization, per member per quarter costs, Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set metrics, and composite measures for access, patient satisfaction, provider communication, and customer service are included. Results: Costs were 11% lower for those with chronic conditions compared to 7% lower for those without. Since treating patients with chronic conditions is 4 times more costly than treating patients without such conditions, the vast majority of dollar savings are attributable to chronic care.
Edwina Rogers, executive director of Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, began her presentation by highlighting the movement to advance medical homes.
With the U.S. being the number one in the world for the cost of healthcare and ranked number 37 in the quality category, something needs to change. Rogers discussed the broad stakeholder support and participation for the movement, as well as the incredible volunteer involvement. The four ‘centers’ include: the Center to Promote Public-Payer Implementation, the Center for Multi-Stakeholder Demonstration, the Center for eHealth Information Adoption and Exchange and the Center for Health Benefit Redesign and Implementation. Medical Homes will provide superb access to care, patient engagament in care, clinical information systems, care coordination, team care, patient feedback and publically available information.
Edwards explained that the Obama administration believes the medical homes concept is the best way to approach healthcare reform. The U.S. House of Representatives has showed great support for the movement and is helping develop and allocate funds for a five-year pilot program. She expressed her enthusiasm for the movement and her prediction that the medical home model is certainly the future of health care.
A complete version of Rogers’ presentation on the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative is available online.
Building Patient-Centeredness in the Real World: The Engaged Patient and the ...EngagingPatients
This paper examines the separate but intertwined ethical, economic and clinical concepts of patientcenteredness and how ACOs provide a structure for turning those concepts into a functioning reality.
The Paradigm Shift from Healthcare to Population HealthPractical Playbook
The Practical Playbook
National Meeting 2016
www.practicalplaybook.org
Bringing Public Health and Primary Care Together: The Practical Playbook National Meeting was at the Hyatt Regency in Bethesda, MD, May 22 - 24, 2016. The meeting was a milestone event towards advancing robust collaborations that improve population health. Key stakeholders from across sectors – representing professional associations, community organizations, government agencies and academic institutions – and across the country came together at the National Meeting to help catalyze a national movement, accelerate collaborations by fostering skill development, and connect with like-minded individuals and organizations to facilitate the exchange of ideas to drive population health improvement.
The National Meeting was also a significant source of tools and resources to advance collaboration. These tools and resources are available below and include:
Session presentations and materials
Poster session content
Photos from the National Meeting
The conversation started at the National Meeting is continuing in a LinkedIn Group "Working Together for Population Health" and Twitter. Use #PPBMeeting to provide feedback on the National Meeting.
The Practical Playbook was developed by the de Beaumont Foundation, the Duke University School of Medicine Department of Community and Family Medicine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA).
Partnering with Patients, Families and Communities for Health: A Global Imper...EngagingPatients
Engagement is an essential tool to improving global health. This report introduces a new framework for engagement to help countries assess current programs and think strategically about future engagement opportunities. It spotlights barriers to engagement and offers concrete examples of effective engagement from around the globe.
Patients and their loved ones often hold critical knowledge that informs diagnosis. This toolkit from the Institute of Medicine offers patients, families and clinicians guidance on how they can collaborate to improve diagnosis.
We don’t have a functional competitive market in health care in the U.S. Consequently, many of the attributes of competitive markets that are beneficial in our lives are not present in health care. One significant negative externality of a dysfunctional market is an inability to discern quality. Consumerism is critical. This presentation outlines the path toward better strategic thinking in U.S. healthcare. We must 1) embrace the Theory of the Firm – you’ll find you’re actually embracing your mission! 2) Institutionalize the promise of globalization 3) Build partnerships – become a market-maker not a market-taker 4) Be a contrarian 5) Focus on the consumer – make them smarter and they will reward you!
This infographic speaks to the challenges Emergency Departments face in caring and following up with the growing population of patients they see, and demonstrates how some EDs are seeing measurable improvements in care, patient satisfaction and efficiency.
Edwina Rogers, executive director of Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, began her presentation by highlighting the movement to advance medical homes.
With the U.S. being the number one in the world for the cost of healthcare and ranked number 37 in the quality category, something needs to change. Rogers discussed the broad stakeholder support and participation for the movement, as well as the incredible volunteer involvement. The four ‘centers’ include: the Center to Promote Public-Payer Implementation, the Center for Multi-Stakeholder Demonstration, the Center for eHealth Information Adoption and Exchange and the Center for Health Benefit Redesign and Implementation. Medical Homes will provide superb access to care, patient engagament in care, clinical information systems, care coordination, team care, patient feedback and publically available information.
Edwards explained that the Obama administration believes the medical homes concept is the best way to approach healthcare reform. The U.S. House of Representatives has showed great support for the movement and is helping develop and allocate funds for a five-year pilot program. She expressed her enthusiasm for the movement and her prediction that the medical home model is certainly the future of health care.
A complete version of Rogers’ presentation on the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative is available online.
Building Patient-Centeredness in the Real World: The Engaged Patient and the ...EngagingPatients
This paper examines the separate but intertwined ethical, economic and clinical concepts of patientcenteredness and how ACOs provide a structure for turning those concepts into a functioning reality.
The Paradigm Shift from Healthcare to Population HealthPractical Playbook
The Practical Playbook
National Meeting 2016
www.practicalplaybook.org
Bringing Public Health and Primary Care Together: The Practical Playbook National Meeting was at the Hyatt Regency in Bethesda, MD, May 22 - 24, 2016. The meeting was a milestone event towards advancing robust collaborations that improve population health. Key stakeholders from across sectors – representing professional associations, community organizations, government agencies and academic institutions – and across the country came together at the National Meeting to help catalyze a national movement, accelerate collaborations by fostering skill development, and connect with like-minded individuals and organizations to facilitate the exchange of ideas to drive population health improvement.
The National Meeting was also a significant source of tools and resources to advance collaboration. These tools and resources are available below and include:
Session presentations and materials
Poster session content
Photos from the National Meeting
The conversation started at the National Meeting is continuing in a LinkedIn Group "Working Together for Population Health" and Twitter. Use #PPBMeeting to provide feedback on the National Meeting.
The Practical Playbook was developed by the de Beaumont Foundation, the Duke University School of Medicine Department of Community and Family Medicine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA).
Partnering with Patients, Families and Communities for Health: A Global Imper...EngagingPatients
Engagement is an essential tool to improving global health. This report introduces a new framework for engagement to help countries assess current programs and think strategically about future engagement opportunities. It spotlights barriers to engagement and offers concrete examples of effective engagement from around the globe.
Patients and their loved ones often hold critical knowledge that informs diagnosis. This toolkit from the Institute of Medicine offers patients, families and clinicians guidance on how they can collaborate to improve diagnosis.
We don’t have a functional competitive market in health care in the U.S. Consequently, many of the attributes of competitive markets that are beneficial in our lives are not present in health care. One significant negative externality of a dysfunctional market is an inability to discern quality. Consumerism is critical. This presentation outlines the path toward better strategic thinking in U.S. healthcare. We must 1) embrace the Theory of the Firm – you’ll find you’re actually embracing your mission! 2) Institutionalize the promise of globalization 3) Build partnerships – become a market-maker not a market-taker 4) Be a contrarian 5) Focus on the consumer – make them smarter and they will reward you!
This infographic speaks to the challenges Emergency Departments face in caring and following up with the growing population of patients they see, and demonstrates how some EDs are seeing measurable improvements in care, patient satisfaction and efficiency.
Against Violence within Families
"Receive Children, Receive Me"
Transcript of speech given to the Mid-North Coast Community of N.S.W., in the 100 year old Uniting Church at Bowraville on World Day of Prayer, by guest speaker: Rev. Katharine Winter, Interfaith Interspiritual Minister on 4th March 2016.
As new payment models emerge that emphasize value over volume, providers are being compelled to look more closely at how to motivate patients—especially those with multiple chronic conditions—to actively manage their care, make better decisions and change behaviors. This editorial webinar will explore the relationships between engagement and improved health outcomes, greater patient satisfaction and better resource utilization. Our panel of experts will share proven strategies for building patients' confidence, disseminating self-management tools and making the best use of your care team.
Providers know that successful care coordination is key to enhancing patient outcomes and better personalizing their experience. At its root, care coordination starts with effective communication, and healthcare organizations are increasingly turning to innovative technology solutions to solve their needs. To improve their care teams’ communication, coordination, and data capture capabilities, two of New York City’s leading healthcare organizations worked with two cutting edge tech solutions providers to design and implement innovative pilots as a part of the New York Digital Health Accelerator program. Utilizing real-life case studies, the panelists will discuss the design and implementation of the pilots, and lessons learned from their participation in the program.
• Anuj Desai - Vice President of Market Development, New York eHealth Collaborative
• Joseph Mayer, MD - Founder & CEO, Cureatr Inc.
• Patricia Meisner, MS, MBA - CEO & Co-Founder, ActualMeds
• Ken Ong, MD, MPH - Chief Medical Informatics Officer, New York Hospital Queens
• Victoria Tiase, MSN, RN - Director, Informatics Strategy, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
New York eHealth Collaborative Digital Health Conference
November 17, 2014
Krames Patient Education is the only choice for enterprise-wide patient education. In this presentation, practices will learn who Krames Patient Education is and What we can do for you.
We will review Patient-Centered Care and Patient Education; The Case for a Patient Education Investment, The Krames Differencet; Return on Investment; and Krames Solutions.
Medical Informatics Update 2013 Programpaulgoldfarb
Event program for the Medical Informatics Update 2013 held October 16, 2013 and sponsored by the Center for Advanced Information Management at Columbia University and IBM Healthcare.
How to Engage Physicians in Best Practices to Respond to Healthcare Transform...PYA, P.C.
PYA Principal Kent Bottles, MD, spoke about physician engagement when it comes to value payment models during “How to Engage Physicians in Best Practices to Respond to Healthcare Transformation” at the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants’ (GSCPA) 2016 Healthcare Conference, February 11, 2016. Dr. Bottles discussed the difficulty of weaning physicians from fee-for-service payment models and the often-unappreciated reasoning behind the shift to value-based payment models. He also highlighted MACRA, MIPS, patient satisfaction surveys, Physician Compare, and the ProPublica Surgeon Scorecard.
Advancing Team-Based Care: Complex Care Management in Primary CareCHC Connecticut
This webinar investigated the ways that team members can contribute to the care of patients with complex medical and/or social needs. The focus was on developing the expanded care team and ensuring ready communication between the core and expanded care teams. Models for effective care management were presented.
This webinar was presented May 5, 2016 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Rob Reid: Redesigning primary care: the Group Health journeyThe King's Fund
Rob Reid, Senior Investigator at Group Health Research Institute, explains the journey taken by Group Health in support of integrated primary care. A case study in how primary care can be delivered effectively and efficiently to a population, Rob laid out the challenges facing general practice in the States, and how Group Health worked to improve the situation for both patients and the workforce.
Consumerism, Innovation and Best Practices to Thrive in the Future of HealthJustin Barnes
May 1, 2019 University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, The Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) Keynote speaker Justin Barnes, a health innovation strategist and co-founder of Health Innovation Think Tank, will provide yet another integral perspective focused on the ways in which we can scale up and implement evidence-based changes in health care technology on a global scale. Having testified before Congress on more than twenty occasions delivering statements on virtual care, alternative payment methods, consumerism, connected health and the globalization of healthcare, Justin offers thought leadership for the university, the healthcare community as well as other key stakeholders.
Consumer Driven Health – IHPME Research Day
Looks to the Future of Health Care
The trend towards consumer driven health, whether it be mobile apps, wearable devices, or easy access to electronic health records, is changing the landscape of our health care system and the way we think about care.
Consumerism, Innovation and Best Practices to Thrive in the Future of Health
Homeless Navigator Feb. Issue
1. Volume 3, Number 2 February, 2014
Published by Health Policy Publishing, LLC ● 209-577-4888 ● www.ReadmissionsNews.com
Kaiser Permanente Program
Provides Hope and Resources to
Homeless Patients
By Michael Carter
omeless patients are getting the help they need to rebuild their lives
thanks to a unique program at Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills
Medical Center. Led by staff member Jonathan Lopez, the Homeless
Navigator Pilot Program aims to find shelter and other vital community services
for homeless patients who seek care in their emergency department.
The program is the first of its kind for Kaiser Permanente in Southern California.
This unique program addresses the needs of homeless patients by using a
coordinated approach that involves a dedicated team of staff and community
resource providers. The team consists of physicians, nurses, social workers,
case manager, administrators, and the Homeless Navigator.
Since its inception in April, 2012, the program has placed more than 576
homeless patients into shelters, transitional housing, permanent housing, and
substance abuse treatment programs. That’s a dramatic increase from 2011,
when just 25 homeless patients were placed in shelters during the entire year.
continued on page 4
Reducing Readmissions Rates
through Telehealth Solutions
By Lee Barrett
n the January Issue of Readmission News I briefly addressed the question about the greatest challenges facing the
healthcare industry in the struggle to reduce hospital readmissions. As I noted, while there are various strategies, for
many healthcare providers the challenge remains squarely on the clinical basics and the automation
of post-discharge care and follow-up.
This month I want to focus on the potential of telehealth solutions to reduce readmissions and the specific related
challenges that policymakers, plans, providers and patients must tackle to give those solutions the best chance of
success.
What are “Telehealth” Solutions?
Telehealth is the use of electronic information and telecommunication technologies to support long-distance clinical health
care and more, like patient education.
1
Telehealth solutions can be simple and straightforward like sending a text
reminder to a patient about a follow up appointment or calling patients who were recently discharged to ask if they still
have any questions about follow up care instructions. Telehealth includes the use of a smart phone and tablet application
to manage medications and track appointments with various health professionals. There are also more comprehensive
telehealth solutions that offer real-time monitoring of the patient’s health status at home.
In This Issue
1 Kaiser Permanente
Program Provides
Hope and Resources to
Homeless Patients
1 Reducing Readmission
Rates through
Telehealth Solutions
2 The Editor’s Corner
3 Refining the Hospital
Readmissions Strategy
through Patient
Feedback
3 Subscriber’s Corner
7 Data from HIN Surveys
8 Thought Leader’s
Corner
10 Industry News
12 Catching up with …
Traci Archibald, OTR/L,
MBA
H
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2. 2 Readmissions News February, 2014
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Readmissions News
February 2014, Volume 3, Issue 2
ISSN 2166-255X (Electronic)
ISSN 2166-2568 (Print)
National Advisory Board
Amy Boutwell, MD, MPP
Founder and President, Collaborative
Healthcare Strategies, Lexington, MA
Molly Joel Coye, MD, MPH
Chief Innovation Officer, UCLA Health
System, Los Angeles, CA
Thomas R. Graf, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Population Health
and Longitudinal Care Service Lines
Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA
Brian Jack, MD
Professor of Family Medicine, Boston
University Medical Center, Boston, MA
Martin S. Kohn, MD, MS, FACEP, CPE,
FACPE, Chief Medical Scientist, Care
Delivery Systems, IBM Research,
Hawthorne, NY
Randall Krakauer, MD, FACP, FACR
National Medical Director, Aetna
Medicare, Princeton, New Jersey
Cheri Lattimer
Director, National Transitions of Care
Coalition (NTOCC), Little Rock, AR
Josh Luke, PhD, FACHE
Vice President, Post Acute Services,
Torrance Memorial Health System, and
Founder, National Readmission
Prevention Collaborative, Torrance, CA
Harold D. Miller
Executive Director, Center for Healthcare
Quality and Payment Reform; President
and CEO, Network for Regional
Healthcare Improvement, Pittsburgh, PA
Mary D. Naylor, PhD, RN, FAAN
Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology
and Director of the NewCourtland Center
for Transitions and Health, University of
Pennsylvania, School of Nursing,
Philadelphia, PA
Miles Snowden, MD, MPH, CEBS
Chief Medical Officer, Optum, Atlanta, GA
Bruce Spurlock, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Cynosure Health Solutions, Roseville, CA
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This month we have a different transition to report.
Marty Kohn will be starting a new job as of February 18 with a
start-up company called Jointly Health, headquartered in San
Juan Capistrano, CA. There he will be the Chief Medical
Scientist. Jointly Health’s team of scientists, clinicians,
engineers, and mathematicians is developing a Remote
Analytics and Monitoring Platform (RAMP) to help scientists
and physicians navigate and integrate physiological data into
medical knowledge. Happily, Marty will be staying on the
Readmissions News advisory board. Best wishes! Ed.
At the last minute we lost the op-ed piece that was slated for this space, so this will
give me a chance to make a pitch for contributions to the Editor’s page in 2014. I
see this as a place for both short opinion pieces -- perhaps something not being
done or acknowledged or not being done well enough -- and brief commentaries
noting some lesson learned along the way as part of a hospital readmissions
reduction program. Here are some possible ideas:
• A proper metric for tracking and reporting readmission rates
• The influence of non-health factors on readmissions -- housing, nutrition,
income, race, culture, etc.
• Conditions inappropriate for readmissions metrics
• Possible effects of age, language, culture, education, and price, for
example, on the use of mobile apps and remote monitoring devices
• Use of non-clinical workers (nutritionists, Community Health Workers,
social workers, housing advocates, paralegals) in readmissions efforts
• Fairly distinguishing among different types of hospitals (teaching, safety,
community, and Critical Access Hospitals) when it comes to comparative
readmission rates
• Creative hospital partnerships with long-term care, home health, hospice,
AAA, and other community agencies
• Hospital leadership and culture
These are but a few. I hope the Readmissions News community will feel free to be
creative. Ed.
Editor’s Corner
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The program has been so
successful in ending
homelessness for Kaiser
Permanente patients that it has
become a new model of care for
this vulnerable population. During
the past year, the program has
received many accolades,
including the 2013 Community
Impact Partner of the Year Award
from Hope of the Valley Rescue
Mission and the Community
Partnership Award from The
Salvation Army in March 2013.
The goal of the Homeless
Service Provider
partnerships is to facilitate
access to a continuum of
care and coordinated
services enabling them to
identify long-term solutions
to improve homeless clients’
living conditions and
ultimately end their state
homelessness through
permanent housing.
Kaiser Permanente…continued
“This program has transformed the dynamics at our hospital. When these patients leave our emergency department, they are
leaving homelessness behind, which is our goal,” said Lopez. “We offer an atmosphere of hope and caring to our homeless
clients and we are making a significant difference,” added Lopez.
The program has been so successful in ending homelessness for Kaiser
Permanente patients that it has become a new model of care for this vulnerable
population. During the past year, the program has received many accolades,
including the 2013 Community Impact Partner of the Year Award from Hope of the
Valley Rescue Mission and the Community Partnership Award from The Salvation
Army in March 2013.
“Kaiser Permanente is not only a leading provider in health care, but now they are
leading the way in health and human services through their Homeless Navigator
Program,” said Ken Craft, president and chief operating officer for Hope of the
Valley Rescue Mission. The Mission is a non-profit agency serving thousands of
men, women, children and their families in the San Fernando Valley.
“Through the leadership of Mr. Lopez, homeless people who come to the hospital
are treated with dignity and respect and they are connected to community
resources. The program links the homeless with service providers that assist the
homeless with accessing case management and wrap around resources.
This unique program has been a catalyst in transforming the landscape of homeless service providers. Now, thanks to Kaiser
Permanente and the San Fernando Valley Homeless Service Providers we are all working together to assist the most
vulnerable in our society,” added Craft.
At Kaiser Permanente the mission to provide high-quality, affordable health care to its members takes the organization beyond
the walls of its hospitals and medical office buildings and deep into their communities. Here’s how the program works:
Lopez serves as a liaison between Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center and nonprofit community partners that
offer a soup-to-nuts array of services, including shelter, food, clothing, job assistance and substance abuse treatment. That’s
in addition to permanent housing which is the main component to ending homelessness.
Working with emergency medicine physicians, nurses, case managers, social workers, and deputy administrators Lopez
connects homeless patients with the services they need to end their homelessness.
Tom Gray, 46, credits the Homeless Navigator Pilot Program with saving his life. Addicted to crystal methamphetamine, he
lost his home and job and had been living on the streets for many years. He came to the attention of homeless team after
seeking emergency treatment for an abscess on his leg.
With the team’s support, Gray is now rebuilding his life. He is living at the Cabrito House, a sober living home for men
overcoming alcohol addiction. He is also working as a sales representative for a heating and air conditioning company in
Canoga Park, where he has been the sales leader for three out of 11 months. In his spare time, Gray gives motivational
speeches to patients at the Tarzana Treatment Center, a behavioral health care organization that provides substance abuse
and mental health treatment to adults and teens.
“Without this Homeless Navigator Program, I wouldn’t be where I’m at today. I would have gone back to the streets,” said
Gray. “It’s a great program.” The homeless navigator team is committed to helping more people like Gray.
Last summer, Lopez expanded his scope of responsibilities, assisting homeless patients
that had not entered the emergency department and consulted with dozens of homeless
clients monthly after they were discharged from the ER. As the Homeless Navigator,
Lopez develops community partnerships, through which Kaiser Permanente’s
NavigationTeam is able to arrange for transportation and placement in local shelters,
transitional housing and substance abuse treatment programs, when needed.
The goal of the Homeless Service Provider partnerships is to facilitate access to a
continuum of care and coordinated services enabling them to identify long-term
solutions to improve homeless clients’ living conditions and ultimately end their state
homelessness through permanent housing.
Community Partners include the Hope of the Valley Rescue Mission, House of Hope,
LA Family Housing, Columbus and Corbin House, San Fernando Valley Rescue
Mission in North Hollywood, the Bell Access Center, Genesis House and The
Lighthouse, a shelter for women and children in Ventura County.
In addition the Homeless Navigator Pilot Program works closely with Tarzana Treatment Center, Northeast Valley Health
Corporation, and the San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center. The newest community partners include the
Frequent User System Engagement System (F.U.S.E) and SSG Alliance - Project 40.
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According to a 2011 Pew
Internet study, age (65 or
older) was cited as one of the
top strongest negative
predictors for internet use.
4
How will this population
adapt to using sensors,
Bluetooth devices, video
conference monitors, and
other telehealth technology?
Telehealth solutions have great
potential to reduce the cost of
healthcare and increase the
patients’ quality of life by
reducing readmissions.
Policymakers, plans, providers,
and patients must work together
to tackle the obstacles of helping
an aging population adapt to new
technologies while promoting
collaboration across medical
professionals and an efficient
and effective way to deliver test
results, consultations and
instructions to patients securely.
Teleheath…continued
What challenges do policymakers, plans, providers and patients still need to address?
While the Geisinger and Central Indiana Beacon Community projects show very promising results, neither study specifically
targeted the Medicare population. The aging Medicare population is the most likely group to be readmitted to a hospital, but
will this group adopt and adhere to using such new technologies?
According to a 2011 Pew Internet study, age (65 or older) was cited as one of the top
strongest negative predictors for internet use.
4
How will this population adapt to using
sensors, Bluetooth devices, video conference monitors, and other telehealth
technology?
There may be more to learn from the Pew Internet study which found that of all adults
age 18 and over who do not use the Internet, the top reasons had very little to do with
being “too old to learn” (4 percent) or being “physically unable.” Instead, the top
three reasons were related to a lack of interest (31 percent), lack of a computer (12
percent), and costs (11 percent).
While there are currently financial penalties for Medicare providers to encourage
lowering readmission rates, a total solution must include the patients’ role. Both of the cited studies provided the necessary
hardware to patients, eliminating the factors of cost and lack of equipment. Patients also received education about using the
devices. If the education program helps patients understand how the telehealth solution can keep them at home and out of
the hospital, it provides a powerful incentive that addresses any lack of interest in technology.
The ability to share medical information easily with a patient’s total care team across various specialties and facilities is also
critical to the success of telehealth solutions. Collecting large amounts of medical data through telehealth is not enough.
Healthcare providers need an efficient and effective way to share patient results
with other healthcare providers as well as to deliver test results, consultation
services, and instructions to patients securely. Telehealth solutions must support
data privacy and security without compromising care.
Healthcare providers and plans can mitigate the risk of using telehealth vendors
through third-party accreditation. Through this process, providers receive an
objective comprehensive review of policies, procedures, controls, business
practices, and technical performance related to data security and privacy. The
review provides an evaluation of strengths and challenges, and it helps target
recommendations for continuous improvement.
Telehealth solutions have great potential to reduce the cost of healthcare and
increase the patients’ quality of life by reducing readmissions. Policymakers,
plans, providers, and patients must work together to tackle the obstacles of helping
an aging population adapt to new technologies while promoting collaboration
across medical professionals and an efficient and effective way to deliver test
results, consultations, and instructions to patients securely.
Lee Barrett is Executive Director of EHNAC, a federally recognized, standards development organization designed to improve
transactional quality, operational efficiency and data security in healthcare. Founded in 1993, the Electronic Healthcare
Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) is an independent, federally recognized, standards development organization
and tax-exempt, 501(c)(6) non-profit accrediting body designed to improve transactional quality, operational efficiency and
data security in healthcare. Mr. Barrett may be reached at lbarrett@ehnac.org.
References
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different-telemedicine
2. Geisinger Plan Reduces Readmissions 44% with Telemonitoring. (2012) Retrieved February 3, 2014, from
http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/geisinger-plan-reduces-readmissions-44-telemonitoring/2012-03-02
3. Beacon trial Reduced Readmissions of Heart Patients to 3% Using Home Video Conferences. (2012) Retrieved February 3, 2014, from
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4. Internet Adoption Over Time. (2012) Retrieved February 7, 2014, from http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Digital-differences/Main-
Report/Internet-adoption-over-time.aspx
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Each month, Readmissions News asks a panel of industry experts to discuss a topic of interest to the hospital community. To
suggest a topic, write to Editor@ReadmissionsNews.com.
Q. What are the benefits -- and the limits -- of the new
mobile apps when it comes to patient and family
engagement in a readmissions reduction strategy?
“Mobile apps will no doubt assist in engaging the patient and family. One of the biggest challenges will be getting the hospitals
and health systems to embrace the most effective mobile apps, as their embedded IT partners (whether it be Epic, Cerner,
etc.) or others will have competing initiatives and often times a partner brand they would prefer to implement than the brand
that may be most effective. In regard to limitations, many post acute providers, particularly bigger SNF chains, still have a
tendency to hide behind HIPAA as a means not to share data, and that will become extremely prohibitive if they do not adapt
soon. The other limitation is that many folks in their golden years have still not adapted to mobile technology and it does not
appear to be a priority for them in the near future as well.”
Josh Luke, PhD
Vice President, Post Acute Services
Torrance Memorial Health System
Founder, National Readmission Prevention Collaborative
Torrance, CA
"Mobile apps can be an important tool in a broader readmission reduction strategy, but just because it’s on an iPhone or Android
device, doesn’t make it valuable. The successful mobile apps in a readmissions strategy will have some or all of the following
features: (1) they must provide value-add evidence-based educational content; (2) the content must match the specific needs of
a patient and their caregiver; (3) it must be pre-populated with existing patient data to engage them right away; and (4) it must be
readily available and accessible on any platform for when the patient is ready for it. Just because patients are in a hospital bed,
it doesn’t necessary mean they are ready to watch an educational video. Patients need to be ready and motivated to engage
with the mobile app on their own time. While the mobile technology is here, we still have to remember that the high frequency
users of healthcare dollars are in the last years of their life. According to Pew research from September 2013, of those aged 76-
80, only 8.3% have a smart phone, 60.8% have a regular feature phone, and 30.9% have neither type."
Eric Heil
Co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer
RightCare Solutions
Horsham, PA
“Patient engagement is essential for compliance with a care plan, especially when it comes to diverting the knee-jerk reflex that
patients and providers have to defer to the ED. App developers and providers should keep in mind that a care plan is not what
the provider wants to happen but rather what the patient is actually willing to do. So, apps that are developed in a patient-
centric way, and consequently require some level of buy-in from the consumer, are likely to better engage the patient in
adherence to the care plan than apps that require no buy-in from the patient. Validation of worth in the form of payment forces
app developers to create products that patients really want and need. So one effective approach to reducing readmissions
through patient and family engagement is confirming the worth of apps by requiring the patient to ‘pay’ with cash, time,
attention, or some other scarce resource.”
Andrey Ostrovsky, MD
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Care at Hand
Boston, MA
Thought Leaders’ Corner
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Minnesota Program Wins Eisenberg Award
Minnesota hospitals and their community partners have
received national recognition for their work to reduce
avoidable readmissions.
The Reducing Avoidable Readmissions Effectively
(RARE) Campaign, a broad-based coalition of hospitals
and care providers working to improve discharge planning,
medication management and primary care post-hospital
visits, was named a recipient of the 2013 John M.
Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award for Innovation
in Patient Safety and Quality, one of the most prestigious
quality and safety awards in the country.
The 82 Minnesota hospitals and 100 community partners
in the coalition have prevented 6,211 avoidable hospital
readmissions between January 1, 2011 and June 30,
2013.
It is estimated that the RARE Campaign has helped
patients spend 24,844 more nights sleeping comfortably in
their own beds instead of the hospital and has reduced
inpatient costs by an estimated $55 million.
The program was featured in the May 2012 issue of
Readmissions News.
Black Children Readmissions Twice That of Whites
Black children are twice as likely as white children to be
readmitted to the hospital for asthma -- a disparity due in
large part to a greater burden of financial and social
hardships.
That’s the conclusion of researchers at Cincinnati
Children’s Hospital Medical Center, who found that 23
percent of black children were readmitted within a year,
while 11 percent of other children in the study, most of
whom were white, were readmitted within a year. Nearly
19 percent of all children were readmitted to the hospital
within 12 months.
Financial and social hardships, such as lack of
employment and not owning a car, accounted for about 40
percent of the increased likelihood of asthma
readmissions among black children. The study was
published online in the eFirst pages of the journal
Pediatrics.
Telemedicine, Staff “Champion” Cut Readmissions
Researchers from the Harvard Medical School and the
Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical
Practice at the Geisel School of Medicine, writing in the
February issue of Health Affairs, reported positive results
from a 2010-2011 telemedicine campaign aimed at
reducing hospital readmissions from long term care
facilities.
The team studied the implementation of a
videoconferencing service that replaced physician after-
hours consultations at 11 Massachusetts long term care
facilities where no other readmission intervention was
underway.
Those nursing homes that were heavily engaged in the
new service saw an 11% drop in readmissions, which
translates to 15 fewer hospitalizations and $151,000 in
savings to Medicare. Facilities with minimal usage of the
service saw no decrease.
The team recommended use of a staff “champion” and
frequent staff meetings, but also cautioned that current
reimbursement rules provide no incentive to invest in
such an intervention.
Robotic-Assisted Hysterectomy Cuts Readmissions
Women with benign disease undergoing robotic-assisted
hysterectomy are significantly less likely to be readmitted
to a hospital within 30 days of their procedure than
women receiving laparoscopic, abdominal (open), or
vaginal hysterectomy.
That’s the conclusion of a new study published online in
The Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology. The
research team from Lehigh Valley Health Network also
found that robotic-assisted surgeries resulted in
significantly lower estimated blood loss, shorter overall
hospital stays, and lower total readmission costs.
Reasons for readmission identified in this study included
fever/infection, wound complications, co-morbidities
(additional disorders), vaginal bleeding, uncontrolled
pain, and bowel issues.
Premier’s QUEST Hospitals Report Quality Results
The 350+ QUEST hospital collaborative of Premier, Inc.
has reported savings of $11.65 billion over the past five
and a half years and avoided 136,375 deaths. Since
2011 the group also prevented 40,808 hospital
readmissions.
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Readmissions News: The Integrating Care for Populations and Communities Aim (ICPCA) had an ambitious goal of
reducing 30-day readmissions by 20% over a three-year period ending in 2013. Can you give us a sense of the milestones
and outcomes to date?
Traci Archibald: QIOs are currently working with over 400 communities across the country. Community stakeholders and
providers share the goal of improving the quality of care transitions for the individuals they serve and to reduce 30-day
readmissions. Since work began in August 2011, there has been a 13.2 % relative improvement in reduction of 30-day
readmissions per 1000 for Medicare fee for service (FFS) beneficiaries residing in communities where QIOs are engaged,
when comparing the data over a two year time period.
There has also been an 8.4 % relative improvement for admissions per 1000 Medicare FFS over the same time period in QIO
engaged communities. QIOs are providing technical assistance to communities to measure the effectiveness of interventions
implemented at the community level and have currently collected 336 measures that have shown improvement.
Readmissions News: The various Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) have been working with hospitals and what for
hospitals might be a new set of community partners (long term care, home health, hospice, aging) to develop seamless
transitions of care. How do you think the QIOs and hospitals have done?
Traci Archibald: QIOs have used community organizing tactics to help bring all community partners together and align forces
to achieve the common goal of improving the quality of care transitions. QIOs have worked to develop leaders in the
community and to foster collaboration between partners that have an equal stake in the process.
Hospitals and post-acute care providers as well as community based organizations all bring valuable resources to the effort.
Communities have learned that local Area Agencies on Aging can connect individuals to long term supports and services such
as meals and transportation that help keep them safely living at home. Hospitals understanding the needs of Home Health
Agencies and Skilled Nursing Facilities at the point of transition and vice versa has helped create improved communications
and more efficient and effective processes.
In many cases, spending a short time shadowing with other community partners has helped the community come together to
better understand the challenges and implement interventions to solve them.
Readmissions News: What kind of metrics should hospitals be collecting and benchmarking to assess their performance in
improving transitions and reducing readmissions?
Traci Archibald: Hospitals should look at the trends over time for admissions, readmissions (7-day, 30-day, 90-day),
observation stays, and Emergency Department visits. They should also collect data to measure the effectiveness of
interventions that are being implemented. For example, if a hospital implements a process to have patients teach back what
they have learned from discharge instructions, it is important to measure whether or not patients were able to teach back the
information. Population level measures, such as 30-day readmissions and admissions per 1000 FFS beneficiaries, are useful
measures to more fully understand what is happening at the community level, instead of focusing on individual providers or
settings.
Readmissions News: Finally, tell us something about yourself that few people would know.
Traci Archibald: I really enjoy doing jigsaw puzzles with my family.
Catching Up With …
Traci Archibald, OTR/L, MBA is the Aim Lead for the QIO (Quality Improvement Organization)
10th SOW (Scope of Work) Integrate Care for Populations and Communities (ICPA) Aim at the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This
is a three-year project funded by CMS which aims to improve the quality of care transitions and to reduce
30-day readmissions. Ms. Archibald has led national care transitions work in her role at CMS for the last
six years. Here she talks about the goal of the ICPA and its progress to date, how QIOs are helping
hospitals partner with other entities in the community to improve care transitions, what kind of metrics
hospitals should be collecting, and herself.
Traci Archibald, OTR/L, MBA
• Aim Lead, QIO 10th SOW Integrate Care for Populations and Communities Aim, Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD
• Lead for other national care transitions work, CMS, Baltimore, MD
• Occupational Therapist in a variety of practice settings for 17 years
• Clinical Specialist for Quality and Accreditation for a rehabilitation department in Baltimore
• BS in Occupational Therapy from Boston University’s, Sargent College of Allied Health Professions; MBA from
the University of Baltimore