Care Coordination Success: Together SNFs & Hospitals Increase Facility-wide Performance

Value-based care makes the need for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) to establish themselves as essential providers to their healthcare partners more critical than ever. With long-term success and financial viability of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and hospitals tied to the entire patient journey, including post-acute care (PAC) performance, acute-care entities seek out SNFs that provide better, more connected care with shorter length-of-stay and reduced rehospitalizations. What does this mean for SNFs, who are a major part of the care continuum but facing extraordinarily challenging times?

To offset revenues lost by lower length-of-stay and inherently low census, high-performing SNFs take advantage of increased referrals, understanding the relationship between quality improvement and quantity. They are getting there with the help of live data. This session discusses how CareOne successfully implements the use of live post-acute data analytics to not only drive better patient outcomes facility-wide, but also strengthen relationships with partnering hospitals. Deborah Fein, BA, RN, RAC-CT, RAC-CTA (VP of Clinical Reimbursement, CareOne) will share data-driven tools and techniques used within their 37 SNFs that are proven to help:

• Reduce Length-of-Stay
• Reduce rehospitalizations
• Risk stratify/clinically prioritize patients
• Execute standardized clinical pathways

Joining Deborah is Margie Latrella, APN-C (VP Clinical and Network Quality, Real Time Medical Systems) who dives deeper into the “why” shared data is beneficial to both hospitals and SNFs. She uncovers which success metrics hospitals deem as vital when choosing preferred PAC providers. Together Deborah and Margie will explore how post-acute data transparency helps advance efficient and effective collaboration to provide the best possible quality-of-care.

With the help of live data, SNFs can experience the immense value that comes with enhanced care coordination – improved quality outcomes, increased referrals/census, and improved care transitions. By becoming strong partners for referrals, SNFs can improve patient outcomes and thus, increase revenue.