Ensuring Your “Engine” Runs Smoothly: Reducing Readmissions and Improving Patient Throughput
Part of the Navigating the Road from Fee-for-Service to Fee-for-Value Series
Hospitals and health systems must work on reducing readmissions and improving patient throughput in order to reduce costs and continue down the path to fee-for-value. This session will focus on how to take a structured approach to reducing readmissions that includes an assessment of your organization’s risk for readmissions, strategies for prevention as you transition the patient to post hospital care, and ways to improve patient throughput throughout their inpatient stay.
Attendees will:
- Learn how a structured approach can jump start an organization’s ability to improve throughput, lower readmission rates, determine common drivers of readmission and strategies to use to improve care transitions
- Discover how to assess an organization’s current process and identify potential readmission risk drivers
- Realize the importance of the Hospitalist/Care Management Team in improving throughput and reducing readmissions
Presenters: Patricia Hines, PhD, RN, and Daniel Cusator, MD, MBA, Vice Presidents, The Camden Group
Who Should Attend?
CEO, COO, CMO, CFO, CNO, other senior leaders in strategy, planning, operations, finance, and business development
Presenters
Since 197
0, The Camden Group has been providing management and consulting services to the healthcare industry exclusively.
Barbra Z. Riegel, MBA
Ms. Riegel is a vice president at The Camden Group. With more than 20 years of healthcare experience, she specializes in strategic planning and business advisory services. She is a speaker on healthcare trends and growth strategies and has published numerous articles.
Patricia A. Hines, PhD, RN
Dr. Hines is a vice president at The Camden Group and a clinical and operations expert with a strong nursing services background. Her focus includes nursing practice and operations, case management, critical care, patient throughput, and Joint Commission preparation.
Daniel C. Cusator, MD, MBA
Dr. Cusator is a vice president at The Camden Group and focuses on clinical integration, accountable care organizations, physician-hospital alignment strategies, physician leadership development, healthcare strategy and care delivery system redesign.
Mary J. Witt, MSW
Ms. Witt is a senior vice president at The Camden Group and has over 25 years of healthcare experience. She has held management positions in hospitals, health systems and management services organizations (MSOs). She has extensive experience in medical group and integrated delivery system development and management.
Laura P. Jacobs, MPH
Ms. Jacobs is executive vice president at The Camden Group and has been with the firm since 1990. She has more than 25 years of experience in the areas of physician-hospital relationships, physician group development and management, performance improvement, healthcare strategic planning and marketing, physician compensation and payer strategy.