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 National Patient Safety Awareness Week
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The week of March 3rd through the 9th is National Patient Safety Awareness Week, a time to reflect on the importance of patient safety. The work we have done together shows your passion and dedication to the community, and your organization. We are honored to improve health care quality and safety for all patients.
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Got Teach-Back? An update on local trainings
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HealthInsight is offering Teach-Back training to healthcare facilities along the Wasatch Front. The training seeks to increase patient engagement and ensure effective communication between healthcare provider and patient. The following local efforts have occurred since the start of 2013. Local efforts to date: - A hospital system is establishing and requiring yearly web-based training for all clinical employees;
- We have trained the Huntsman Cancer Institute's unit managers;
- Timpanogos Hospital staff, and;
- Social workers and case managers at Ogden Regional Medical Center.
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What is Teach-Back?
Teach-Back is a proven intervention to help reduce unnecessary readmissions and ensure successful transitions of care. Teach-Back is used to measure how well healthcare providers explain medical issues to patients. Its use is known to increase patient engagement and health literacy as patients reiterate instructions to providers, ensuring effective communication and subsequent understanding.
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Sign up for Teach-Back Seminars for your staff
HealthInsight is offering free Teach-Back training or "train the trainer" seminars to interested health service organizations.
For information about participating, or to have a Teach-Back session in your facility, please call Larry Garrett or Janet Tennison at HealthInsight, 801-892-0155.
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New Reimbursement Opportunities: Two New CPT Codes for "Transitional Care Management" Services
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 Identifying patients recently discharged from hospitals or skilled nursing facilities and providing timely ongoing care reduces hospital readmissions. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that they will begin paying physicians for coordinating Medicare beneficiaries' care transitions following discharge to their homes or assisted living facilities effective January 1, 2013.
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Post-Hospital Syndrome
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Larry Garrett, PhD, MPH, RN, HealthInsight, Project Coordinator
Nationwide, nearly one in five hospitalized Medicare patients are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days. For those patients, the initial hospital stay may have produced new health problems that caused the readmission. "They come into the hospital with one thing, but they leave with another," says Krumholz, the author of a recently published study in the Journal of the American Medical Association that examined more than 3 million hospitalizations. "Maybe what is going on is that people, through the hospitalization, are acquiring a new condition, something that makes them susceptible to a whole range of problems." This phenomenon, Krumholz calls it "post-hospital syndrome," is a temporary period of increased susceptibility to all sorts of risks, ranging from falls to heart attacks. <<FULL ARTICLE>>
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Recognizes University Of Utah
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Responding to newly emerging models of coordinated care, staff at University of Utah Health Care piloted hiring a transitions navigator, leveraging best practices from national care transitions leaders. The transitions navigator is embedded within the University of Utah Hospital inpatient care teams and the outpatient local primary care network to ensure that critical factors necessary for safe care transitions are not overlooked as patients' location of care shifts from the hospital back to their medical home. The University of Utah's program was selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to participate in their Care About Your Care event. For more information, please visit the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Care About Your Care webpage.
Videos about the Transitions Program at University of Utah Health Care
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About Our Work
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This information is provided by HealthInsight, a private, non-profit, community-based organization dedicated to improving health and health care. HealthInsight serves as the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization in Utah and leads an initiative to improve care coordination and reduce hospital readmissions across settings of care.
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Sincerely,
Larry Garrett, HealthInsight
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Local Events | 
Patient Centered Care in Action Event When?
Thursday, March 7, 2013
8:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
This FREE event will
feature an interactive morning plenary and three learning & action network sessions focused on patient centered care.
- Improving patient care through Meaningful Use
- Best medication list practices to deliver the best care
- Patient engagement tools and techniques
Click here for more information and to register. |
| National Events | |
"Shining Stars
Across the Nation"
Webinar Series
Presented by
CFMC, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for Colorado
When?
2nd & 4th Thursdays
1-2 PM MT
Who?
QIOs, healthcare providers, partners, HHS, and consumers
Register
For information:
Call 866-639-0744
Visit Qualitynet Website
(Password:Community)
View PDF of schedule
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| National | CME Credit Available
In the Clinic:
Transitions of Care
(Annals of Internal Medicine)
Christopher S. Kim, MD, MBA; Scott A. Flanders, MD |
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You are receiving this newsletter as a result of your participation in the Patient Centered Care in Action - Care Transitions Learning and Action Network, or simply for your involvement in care transitions in your setting. Each month, this briefing will include a variety of information on different topics, tools and resources, upcoming trainings or events and your improvement stories. |
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