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Access to care is vital to healthy living and critically important to address health disparities and improve health outcomes. We are excited to share findings from a new study with Harvard University in which patients of senior-focused primary care (SFPC) clinics had 17% more visits with their primary care doctor than patients of other primary care organizations. The impact of SFPC was more significant for Black and low-income patients who received 39% and 21% more primary care visits. Learn more as Dr. Kate Goodrich, Humana’s Chief Medical Officer, discusses the significance of the study and what it means for the patients we serve, the providers we support and the healthcare system overall at https://huma.na/4f1TOl8. #ValueBasedCare #SeniorPrimaryCare #HealthcareResearch

Last month, our Humana Healthcare Research Team, in collaboration with Harvard University, published a groundbreaking study in Health Affairs on the effectiveness of senior-focused primary care. In this latest Humana News article below, I dive a little deeper into why this research is critical for advancing advocacy around senior-focused primary care, as well as some thoughts around why this model of care may play an important role in improving health outcomes for seniors.   #HUMemployee #TeamHumana #HumanaHealthcareResearch #SeniorFocusedPrimaryCare

🌍 Calling all healthcare professionals! Enhance your expertise in caring for EDS and HSD patients with the EDS ECHO Multidisciplinary Team Practice: Europe Program. 🌟 Led by experts Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alan Hakim and Prof. Jane Simmonds, this program offers comprehensive modules on diagnosis, treatment, and collaboration across disciplines. Improve patient outcomes through evidence-based practices and connect with peers worldwide. The next session is on June 4. CME/CEU/CE credits are available to healthcare professionals. Credits are awarded at 1 per 60 minutes of live session activity. 📅 Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/eFEKhT5t Through these programs, the Ehlers-Danlos Society aims to foster collaboration and improve the care and quality of life for those with EDS and HSD. #EDS #HSD #HealthcareEducation #MultidisciplinaryCare #EDSECHO #ProjectECHO #EhlersDanlos #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #Hypermobility #HypermobilitySpectrumDisorder #Medicine #Healthcare #HealthProfessionals

When people can access #PrimaryCare, their health is better. Did you know that primary care-focused accountable care organizations were the highest-performing #ACOs in 2021 and 2022? Find out why by reading our 2023 evidence report funded by The Robert Graham Center: https://lnkd.in/dnTPXZSC #BetterHealthNow

The voice of the patient is crucial in designing and planning facilities for pediatric health. Often the patient is unable to advocate for themselves, so HGA uses a variety of tools including patient and family advisory councils, creating a framework for engagement and measuring outcomes through pre-and-post occupancy evaluations. In Healthcare Facilities Today, Mezio Zangirolami, AIA, LEED AP, NCARB and Erin Labrec present case studies on designing for pediatric patients: https://lnkd.in/eaePa_JG

The voice of the patient is crucial in designing and planning facilities for pediatric health. Often the patient is unable to advocate for themselves, so HGA uses a variety of tools including patient and family advisory councils, creating a framework for engagement and measuring outcomes through pre-and-post occupancy evaluations. In Healthcare Facilities Today, Mezio Zangirolami, AIA, LEED AP, NCARB and Erin Labrec present case studies on designing for pediatric patients: https://lnkd.in/ggyTg4ir

To improve health outcomes for seniors after hospital discharge, Rebecca Trotta and colleagues have been reimagining hospital-to-home care transitions with a model called SOAR (Supporting Older Adults at Risk). Drawing on the Discharge to Assess model, SOAR involves coordination among a core team specializing in geriatric care and an interprofessional team over three phases: Prepare, Transition, and Support. Pilot results, reported in the Journal for Healthcare Quality, demonstrate success! On average, SOAR increased the percentage of patients discharged before noon, from 6% to 76%, reduced the time to first home care visit from 49 hours to 6 hours, and cut down hospital length of stay by more than a day. It also led to to improvements with 30-day ED visits and readmissions and facilitated connection to the in-house pharmacy, which allows patients to obtain medications before discharge. The article was coauthored by Anne Shoemaker, Ryan Greysen, and Marie Boltz. Link to paper: https://lnkd.in/e5Cu7SD7 SOAR was supported by CHTI's Innovation Accelerator Program, with David Resnick serving as innovation lead. Dr. Trotta was featured in our Innovator Spotlight series in 2023 – visit the CHTI blog to read it! https://lnkd.in/eB6SVdd3

I was pleased to support the Primary Care Collaborative's 2023 evidence report, Health is Primary: Charting a Path to Equity and Sustainability. Despite innovations like telehealth, population health management tools, and team based care models, availability of and access to #primarycare is declining, especially for rural communities. With terrific partners from AAFP Foundation and The Robert Graham Center, we reviewed the literature and estimated primary care workforce trends. The U.S. can't address our declining life expectancy, rising chronic disease rates, declining mental health, and rising mistrust and misinformation when primary care access is weak. We can't get to a high-performing, value-driven health care system when primary care is weak. It's urgent that we pivot resources to primary care. Alison Huffstetler Anam Siddiqi Ann C. Greiner https://lnkd.in/gKQ4xU5N

“Eradicating 65-week waiters by September is NHS England’s next elective recovery goal – which they are desperate to hit after being forced to extend it from March”, the Health Service Journal observes, as six more trusts drop into the ‘most challenged’ category. Paradoxically, the trusts may not achieve that target by trying to eradicate the 65-week cohort. They must first understand the cause of their long waits. If the real problem is that the whole waiting list is too big, then only targeting long-waiters at the margins will not solve it. We can tell that much from the published RTT data, but the real power kicks in when we go to work on the source data. That’s true whether you are eliminating 65 week waits in 2024, or restoring the ’18 weeks’ standard for 2029. Each trust’s elective recovery will look slightly different, depending on your starting point. But your journey with Insource might begin with comprehensive and accurate pathway data, advanced forecasting and capacity planning, and augmented validation and tracking. Then your roadmap might involve integrating disparate activities such as patient communications and peri-operative management into the data backbone. If your trust is ‘most challenged’ or in danger of moving that way, then get in touch. We look forward to discussing your immediate actions and subsequent roadmap to a sustainable elective recovery. https://lnkd.in/ejP99zNN Nadine Carey-Whitehead Graham Bennett Rob Davenport Tim Eltze Karen Hyde Greg Stevens Paige Elizabeth Hyde Adrian Owen Rachel Lane Donna Smith https://lnkd.in/ex5HDRmq

In 2017, Rush University Medical Center (RUMC), a 671-bed hospital in Chicago mainly serving the city’s West Side, recognized the need to re-engineer its delivery systems to address population health, reduce health inequities, and combat chronic diseases while controlling healthcare costs. RUMC came to HCCI to address this problem—and in 2018, the Rush@Home house call program was created. The results were clear: home-based primary care improves health outcomes and lowers overall costs of care. Overall, costs were reduced by 34%, there were 18% fewer hospitalizations, and a 21% reduction in emergency room visits. Further, a six-month study showed that a program with 200 Medicare Shared Savings Program patients could generate over $3 million in savings ($15,000 in savings per patient). Looking at these results, it’s clear—the future of sustainable and quality care is in the home. HCCI’s work to increase access to home-based primary care is more important than ever. See the full care study here: https://ow.ly/V3b650SYmqK #housecalls #healthcare #homecare #homebasedprimarycare