Every patient recovering in an inpatient bed who could safely recover at home is a patient in the wrong setting. Meanwhile, a patient in need of acute care waits for a bed. Arlington, Va.-based VHC Health addressed this challenge by giving care teams earlier, objective clarity on where each patient can safely go next.
The results: a 6.7% increase in discharge-to-home rates among moderate-mobility patients, measurable reductions in inpatient length of stay and tighter alignment between disposition and total cost of care.
James Meenan, associate vice president of population health at VHC Health, will walk through how the program was built, how it runs day to day and what change management with clinicians actually looked like.
Learnings include:
- How to operationalize an objective mobility measure, the Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care, inside existing workflows
- Where earlier disposition intelligence cuts avoidable inpatient days and opens beds
- Which metrics show whether care-transition improvements are reaching enterprise-level results
- The routines that keep performance from drifting after go-live