Reducing Readmissions: It's the Little Things that Make Navigating this Complex Issue Much Easier

Reducing Readmissions: It's the Little Things that Make Navigating this Complex Issue Much Easier

With all of the attention on avoidable readmissions by the government, payers and the press, someone forgot to tell stakeholders about the challenging nature of dealing with a complex system of transitioning through different care settings. While many promising practices are available, how do you tie them all together to meaningfully reduce avoidable readmissions? And in a time with diminishing reimbursements, how do you do it cost-effectively?

We explore the lessons from the early adopters and how to adapt them to different organizational settings. Connecting the dots with different caregivers and empowering patients and families as active participants are the goals of this session. It is all about immediate action with sustainable results – and the winners are the patients and their families.
Patients and their families are an underdeveloped resource, mainly because their needs and engagement have historically been addressed in a standardized, one-size-fits-all manner. Customized activation of "home caregivers" will be explored based on patient's individual ideas of independence, self-mastery and degree of support at home.

Major reductions in readmission rates require new relationships and strategies to interact with new partners. Hospitals will need to select key partners to address avoidable readmissions in a more comprehensive manner. Selection of these partners will need to be based on local needs, readmission patterns, experience and interest.

Join national expert Bruce Spurlock, MD - Chair of the CHART Board, and leader of large quality collaboratives in California, Washington and Florida as he provides case experience from leading initiatives and guidance in how health care organizations can best navigate this crucial issue.

Participants will be able to:

Share in lessons learned from early adopters in readmission reduction initiatives, and how to adapt their experiences to other environments
Explore how to leverage patient and family engagement as a key resource in readmission reduction
Identify strategies in how to customize activation of home caregivers through patient and family engagement
Understand how to address avoidable readmissions through collaboration between partners including the medical group, hospital, skilled nursing facilities, and home health care.
Consider how hospitals can select their key local partners in addressing avoidable readmissions
Engage in interactive learning through online question submission, attendee feedback and opportunity for follow up questions, and networking with attendees, faculty and other professionals through dedicated LinkedIn group

Interested attendees would include:

C-Suite Executives
Medical Directors
Hospitalists and Other Clinicians
Care Management Executives and Staff
Case Management Executives and Staff
Nursing Executives
Discharge Planning Managers
Managed Care Executives and Staff
Network Management Executives and Staff
Health Benefit Managers
Planning and Strategic Executives and Staff
Business Intelligence Staff
Other Interested Parties

Attendees would represent organizations including:

Hospital Systems
Medical Groups
Provider Networks
Other Providers
Health Plans
Third Party Administrators
Care Management Organizations
Pharmaceutical Organizations
Employers
Solutions Providers
Associations, Institutes and Research Organizations
Media

Individual Registration Fee: $195. Audio Conference CD-ROM: $40 for attendees; $285 for non-attendees after the event.

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Bruce Spurlock, M.D.,
President & CEO,
Convergence Health Consulting, Inc.

Bruce Spurlock, M.D. is President & CEO of Convergence Health Consulting, Inc., a boutique management consulting firm committed to leading improvement in health care. Dr. Spurlock works with physicians and health care executives to create state-of-the-art clinical and operational management systems. Dr. Spurlock is Chair of the CHART Board, a groundbreaking initiative of hospitals, purchasers, health plans and consumer groups to produce a voluntary hospital performance report in California. He also leads large quality collaboratives in California, Washington and Florida designed to accelerate the implementation of evidence-based practices. Currently, he is an Adjunct Associate Professor with Stanford University. He is a nationally known speaker on health care topics ranging from health care trends to redesigning specific operational units.

Prior to developing his national consulting practice, Dr. Spurlock was the executive vice president for the California Healthcare Association (CHA) where he served as CHA’s expert in physician group relations, health policy, and quality and performance measurement. He also practiced internal medicine as a senior physician with The Permanente Medical Group, Inc., for 10 years, where he led patient education services and developed shared decision-making tools, clinical pathways and guidelines, RN advice center protocols and easy access ambulatory services. During his clinical career Dr. Spurlock was an Assistant Clinical Professor for the University of California, Davis and participated on the American Hospital Association’s Quality Leadership Team. In 1997 he was appointed by California Governor Wilson to the Managed Health Care Improvement Task Force, is published in local, state and national journals and has served as a trustee on the California Medical Association’s Board of Trustees.

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