Preventing Rehospitalizations: Engage Your Hospital and Healthcare Community
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AUDIO CONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ON-DEMAND
Sponsored by: Briefings on Patient Safety
presented on September 28, 2009
An April 2009 study in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that 20% of Medicare patients return to the hospital within a month of being discharged, and 34% return within three months. According to the study, the costs associated with these rehospitalizations amounted to $17.4 billion in 2004. National efforts are underway to address the issue, and your facility can develop a cooperative plan between all stakeholders to minimize rehospitalization, while keeping patients safe and improving the quality of their care.
Listen to the 90-minute audio conference Preventing Rehospitalizations: Engage your Hospital and Healthcare Community. Expert speakers Amy E. Boutwell, MD, MPP (Institute for Healthcare Improvement) and Margaret Namie, RN, BSN, MPH, CPHQ (Mercy Health Partners of Southwest Ohio) detail the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) pilot program for curtailing rehospitalization. You will learn what internal steps your facility can take to address the issue, as well as communication and outreach efforts that can be made to patients and families, payers, and other community interests to keep patients safe following discharge.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This program will help hospital administrators:
- Learn about the IHI's State Action on Avoidable Rehospitalization (STAAR) initiative
- Implement strategies within your own facility to reduce breakdowns in communication
- Form a team of caregivers that effectively prepares patients and family members for discharge
- Engage community leaders in a discussion about the responsibilities of other healthcare players and groups in preventing rehospitalization
AGENDA:
- History and review of rehospitalization as an issue
- IHI STAAR initiative
- Overview of how the STAAR Initiative launched May 1, 2009
- Specific engagement with payers, states, patients and families, and caregivers across the continuum of care
- Key changes necessary in transition from hospital to home
- The importance of a team of caregivers
- State and implications of the community
- Why would a hospital want to participate in the initiative
- The community's involvement
- The need to address rehospitalization as a partnership among many community providers
- How can you influence policy makers to prioritize the prevention of rehospitalization?
- Analyzing where breakdowns in transitions in care occur
- Reforming the care model to treat rehospitalization as a community issue
- Catholic Healthcare Partners case study
- Lessons learned about heart failure patient population
- Factors driving rehospitalization
- Findings from financial impact at hospital
- A question and answer session follows the presentation
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Amy E. Boutwell, MD, MPP, director of strategic improvement policy, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Cambridge, MA. Dr. Boutwell leverages her clinical, process improvement, and public policy expertise among a range of IHI initiatives. Prior to joining IHI, she conducted research on leveraging non-clinical encounters to improve health care for marginalized populations, authored a report for the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Women's Health, and consulted for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Global AIDS Program. She is a practicing internist at Newton-Wellesley Hospital and attends on the teaching service at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Margaret Namie, RN, BSN, MPH, CPHQ, vice president of quality at Mercy Health Partners of Southwest Ohio. During her six-plus years with Mercy, she has been responsible for Mercy hospitals achieving significantly lower readmission rates for heart failure patients; leading multi-site Palliative Care and Diabetes programs; and directing home care operations.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Employees of long-term care facilities, ambulatory surgery centers, and home health organizations, including the following titles:
- Quality improvement officer
- Patient safety officer
- Nurse manager
- Nurse
- Chief financial officer
- Risk manager
AUDIO ON-DEMAND
In addition to the regular purchase options for HCPro audio conferences, we are pleased to offer another option, audio on-demand. Audio on-demand allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience through your computer or MP3 player. Purchase a CD or audio on-demand of the program and listen when you can. It's also a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.
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