a rehospitalization reduction program on a geriatric skilled nursing unit
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A Rehospitalization Reduction Program on a Geriatric Skilled Nursing Unit. Randi Berkowitz, MD Hebrew SeniorLife. Why decrease readmissions?. Excellence in care errors patient satisfaction staff satisfaction Financial referrals subacute beds long-term care - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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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– errors
– patient satisfaction
– staff satisfaction
II. Financial– referrals
– subacute beds long-term care
– census
– reimbursement/patient
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Learning Objectives
• Define the scope of the issue of rehospitalization in subacute care nationally
• Describe innovative programs to reduce transfer out to the hospital
• Show how CQI process involving transfer can lower hospital readmission rates whole improving patient safety and quality of care
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Large geographic variation
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Hospital Readmissions within 30 days from SNFs are common
Of ~1.8 million SNF admissions in the U.S. in 2006, 23.5% were re-admitted to an acute hospital within 30 days
In Massachusetts the rate is 26% Cost of these readmissions = $4.3 billion
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Common Reasons for Transfers
Medical instability Availability of:
On-site primary care providers Stat tests, IVs
Inadequate assessments to identify early changes Communication gaps Family issues/preferences Lack of advance directives (DNR, DNH)
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Do They Have to Go?
As many as 45% of admissions of nursing home residents to acute hospitals may be
inappropriateSaliba et al, J Amer Geriatr Soc
48:154-163, 2000
In 2004 in NY, Medicare spent close to $200 million on hospitalization of long-stay NH residents for “ambulatory care sensitive
diagnoses” Grabowski et al, Health Affairs
26: 1753-1761, 2007
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Adverse Events Common Coming and Going
• 46% of hospitalized patients have 1 or more regularly taken medications omitted without explanation. Potential for harm estimated at 39%.– Cornish Arch Int Med 2005; 165: 424-9
• Transfers from NH to hospital have an average of 3 med changes. 20% lead to adverse drug events.– Boockvar Arch Int Med 2004 (164) 545-50
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Conclusion
• Rehospitalizations are going to be a prime focus coming years
• New system paradigm will be needed to meet the demand for prevention of readmissions
• Focus of enhancing care in the SNF and community treatment will take precedence
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It’s a new world Obamacare!
• Center for Medicare Medicaid Innovation• $10 billion• Triple aim
– better health– better care– lower cost
• Innovation Advisors Program - Current fellow
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How?
1. Admission2. Stay on unit3. Discharge
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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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Advisory Committee
• Family Involvement - Daughter• Outside institutions - Director Subacute Care-
Partners• Biostatistician• Information Technologist• Continuum - homecare• Senior leadership at HSL• Rabbi from palliative care• Staff nurse, unit coordinator, therapy, social work,
aide, administration
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Process and Outcome Measures
• Middle - Stay on the unit– Unplanned discharge rates – Benchmarked staff safety survey for staff AHRQ – Attendance TIPS
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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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RSU Acute Transfer/Total Discharges
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Data Unplanned Transfers
• January 2008- June 2009 compared with post TIPS July 2009-November 2009
• Massachusetts 30 day 22-28%Pre-intervention 16.5%Post-intervention 13.3%Rate Reduction -20%
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Pre and Post Discharge Dispositions
• Pre N=862• Community 68.6%• Died 1.2%• LTC 13.8%• Hospital 16.5%
• Post N=8863• 73%• 2.2%• 11.6%• 13.3%
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When staff report something that could harm a resident, someone takes care of it
Agree and Strongly Agree
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On this unit, we talk about ways to keep incidents from happening again
Agree and Strongly Agree
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Staff ideas and suggestions are valued on this unitAgree and Strongly Agree
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It is easy for staff to speak up about problems on this unit
Agree and Strongly Agree
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Staff feel like they are part of a team
Agree and Strongly Agree
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Staff are blamed when a resident is harmedDisagree and Strongly Disagree
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Implications for HSL
• Family/patient involvement• Create culture of system management rather than
blame• Share knowledge learned across sites/teams• True multidisciplinary team- swarm the problem
and front line solutions which can be used organizational wide
• Use of run/control charts to guide CQI into frontlines and understand common cause variability
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Why take on this pain financially? Census, census, census
• Hospital care!
• CMS demonstration project
• Preferred provider network
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RED
• Computerized After Hospital Care Plan– Code status, meds, VNA info, PCP info, speech
and therapy directions– Is Meditech good for something?– Phone number to call with questions with
picture care coordinator and name– Give at first care plan meeting and on discharge
update
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RED
• Change culture patient/family empowerment
• Involvement of front line staff- NASA comparison
• Culture of QA and monthly feedback
• Clear numerical goals for entire team
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Project RED Empowering the Patient
Setting goals of January, 2011How are we doing?
How good EXACTLY do we want to be?
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Respondents Reached
• 305 patients
• 96%
• 30 days after discharge RSU
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Rehospitalization Once Home
• 56/302 patients
• 18.5%
• GOAL- We will reduce this to 15% or 2.7%
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How many see PCP in 30 days?
• 171/282
• 60.6%
• GOAL - We will increase this to 75%.
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Understood Medications Very Well or Extremely Well
• 216/279
• 77.4%
• GOAL- We will increase this to 80%
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Understood Medications Very Well or Extremely Well
• 216/279
• 77.4%
• GOAL- We will increase this to 80%
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How would you rate HSL?
• Respondents 263
• Mean number scale 1-10 (10 the best)
• 8.55
• GOAL- We will increase this to 9
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The life of a RED packet
• Given to patient approximately 1 week after admission (“rough draft”)
• Nurses use RED as a tool to help educate patients about their illness, meds, etc.
• “Final draft” is given to patient on discharge
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RED Data – How are we doing?
• 90% of patients have been reached
• 13% of the intervention patients have been readmitted to a hospital or had a visit to the ER compared to 17.4% of the non-intervention patients
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Data (cont.)
• 73.2% or RED patients saw their PCP within 30 days compared with 45.8% non-RED
• 92.5% understood their medications compared to 60.5%
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Data (cont.)
• 56.5% of patients were told of side effects for new medications, compared with 16.6%
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RED Problems
• Original plan was to for social workers give RED to patients
• Current plan is to have nurses deliver and teach RED to each patient
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What are you all doing?
• Identify high risk patients
• Assessment versus actual interventions- all assessed and no where to go
• Sharing between systems- STAAR et al
• Communicating across continuum– Talking, data, funding