Theme: To find innovative solutions and enablement strategies to impact patient reported outcomes related to healthcare access specifically getting timely and needed care. Innovative solutions need to be focused on at least one of the following areas:

  1. Getting Timely Care, Appts & Information: Refers to a practice’s ability to quickly provide care after recognizing a need. The timelier a provider, the better their patients’ health outcomes — and levels of engagement.
  2. Getting Needed Care: The Getting Needed Care measure evaluates patients' satisfaction with how easy it was for them to get needed care and see specialists. This is self-reported by patients and collected annually as part of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers Systems (CAHPS®) Survey.

Winner: RADTP (Rehabilitation Adult Day Treatment Program)

About RADTP: A new alternative level of care that allows patients to receive a highly intense subacute rehabilitation experience while at the same time passing institutional care in a skilled nursing facility. The model allows for the patient to be discharged directly home with a high degree of coordination of care between home health and RADTP. Part of phase one of this project will be developing a risk index that can predict which patients are appropriate for this level of rehabilitation. This new concept is adapted from a very old Medicare model, CORF (Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility). We know the sooner the patient returns home and the more intense and more quickly they are engaged in their rehab program the better their outcome. Once the RADTP program is complete they can transition to traditional OP therapy. The priority of this project is to work with CHI on developing risk indices and phenotyping, paired with current rehabilitation risk predictor tools, can better predict the appropriate level of care for rehabilitation needs. There currently is no other institution that has this type of care model.

 Todd Bennett, PI Robert Larrison, Elaine Kempers, and PI Michael Duchaj  
Todd Bennett, PI Robert Larrison, Elaine Kempers, and PI Michael Duchaj (pictured from left to right)



















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