Enhancing Care Management with Proactive Patient Surveillance

INTRODUCTION

Care management and care transitions are at the center of value-based care strategies. To improve care coordination rounds, shift changes, and other care transition plans, providers are using the Rothman Index to guide important decisions and improve outcomes.

Focusing on proactive patient surveillance and early intervention, Shannon Medical Center, in San Angelo, TX, has decreased codes outside the ICU by 34% and reduced Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)-to-hospital readmission rates to 10% below the national average.

The Rothman Index is the only clinical surveillance platform that derives one simple score from the vast amount of data in the electronic medical record to create a picture of any patient’s condition over time – any age, any disease, any unit.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Review the proactive surveillance process at Shannon Medical Center
• Outline alert protocols and staff action steps to reduce code blue events outside the ICU
• Explain how creating a common clinical language reduces readmissions and unplanned transfers
• Share how Shannon Medical Center uses Rothman Index Analytics
• Discuss Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) and thesis research using the Rothman Index

WEBINAR DETAILS

DATE: February 26, 2020
TIME:  1:00-1:30 pm ET

SPEAKERS:

• Becky Fuentes, DNP, RN, NE-BC, Associate Chief Nursing Officer, Shannon Medical Center
• Jonathan Fullerton, Managing Director, Strategic Initiatives, PeraHealth

SUGGESTED ATTENDEES

Hospital executives, clinicians, and care managers who need to identify patients at risk of rapid decline, make decisions about transfer and discharge, predict the risk of severe infection, and improve the overall efficiency and quality of care.