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A Rehospitalization Reduction Program on a Geriatric Skilled
Nursing Unit
Randi Berkowitz, MD
Hebrew SeniorLife
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Why decrease readmissions?
I. Excellence in care– Decrease errors
– patient satisfaction
– staff satisfaction
II. Financial– Increased referrals
– subacute beds long-term care
– census
– reimbursement/patient
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How?
1. Admission2. Stay on unit3. Discharge
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Admissionassessment
TIPSConference
Re-engineereddischarge
Rehab - SNF
Unplanned discharge
Sharing lessons learnedIHI
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Reducing AVOIDABLE hospital transfers
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Bucket #1: Problems on Admission
• Ineffective communication of prognosis / options
• PCP out of loop• Inadequate care plans for
recurrent symptoms
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Reduce AVOIDABLE hospital transfers
Approach to the Problem: Admission
• MD standardized discussions
• Communication family and PCP
• High risk patients– Automatic Palliative Care consult– Flag for entire team
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Bucket #2: Stay on Unit:Problems With Team Operation
• Disciplines operating in silos
• Failure to identify problems early
• Failure to learn from mistakes
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Reduce AVOIDABLE hospital transfers
Approach to the Problem: Stay on the Unit
• Team Improvement for the Patient and Safety (TIPS) conference
• Call to hospital
• Root cause analysis
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Bucket #3: Problems With Home Discharge
• Poor hand off to next team
• No teach back with patient/HCP
• No standardized discharge summary/ nursing process
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Reduce AVOIDABLE hospital transfers
Approach to the Problem: Home Discharge
• Project RED– Written home care plan from electronic medical
record– Making specific for geriatric use
• E.g. advance directives, diet, VNA, assistive devices
• Standardized discharge summaries
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Target Population
• All admissions to the RSU subacute unit
• 1000 admissions a year
• 3NP/3MD- geriatric and palliative care certified
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Process and Outcome Measures
• Admission– 90% patients have discussion with MD
• prognosis
• rehospitalizations past 6 months
• Communication family and PCP
– Patient/ family satisfaction survey
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Process and Outcome Measures
• Middle- Stay on the unit– Unplanned discharge rates – benchmarked staff safety survey for staff
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Process and Outcome Measures
Discharge Home
• 30 day readmission rates after discharge from SNF
• Satisfaction survey of discharge preparedness
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Perceived Facilitators/Barriers
• Pt acceptance of less aggressive approaches• Increased liability • Increase cost keeping sicker patients• Difficulty obtaining information from hospital• Time needed to engage primary care • Lack of practitioner access to computer systems in
key referral sites• Limited IT resources for Project RED
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Preliminary Data Unplanned Transfers
• January 2008- June 2009 compared with post TIPS July 2009-November 2009
• Massachusetts 30 day 22-28%Pre-intervention 16.9%Post-intervention 12.7%Rate Reduction -24.7%
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Staff feel safe reporting their mistakes
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Questions
Flag risk to entire teamAvoidable-unavoidable dischargesRED
call everyone 30 days- use OASISCall those LTC
Aides to TIPS conferencesSurvey admission process
high risk vs everyonetool