Post-Acute Care Advocacy Alliance
Introduction
Post-acute care is a growing and essential health and social service, accounting for more $2.7 trillion spent on personal health care, and, of that, almost 15% of total Medicare spending.
The AHA's nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health organizations includes 3,300 post-acute care providers, including free-standing post-acute hospitals and post-acute units. Post-acute care settings include long-term care hospitals (LTCHs), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and home health agencies. AHA supports enhanced coordination between general acute-care hospitals and post-acute providers to improve overall quality of care and reduce total health spending.
The AHA meets the unique needs of post-acute care providers through
- Representation and advocacy
- Participation in public policy development
- Communication, education, and management strategies including specialized education and networking opportunities
- Collaborating with national organizations to lay the foundation for aligned positions on behalf of post-acute care providers across the continuum of care.
Resources
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- Fact Sheet: Viable Unified Post-acute Care Payment Model Not Possible Under Current Approach (11/21/2020)
- Case Study: Partnership with Post-acute Hospitals key to Covid-19 Response (8/11/2020)
- Fact Sheet: Reset IMPACT Act to Account for COVID-19 Lessons on Post-acute Care (6/24/2020)
- Fact Sheet: Reset IMPACT Act to Account for COVID-19 Lessons on Post-acute Care (6/24/2020)
- Post-Acute Provider Experiences and Lessons Learned During COVID-19 (June 2020)
- MedPAC discusses draft post-acute care payment updates for 2021 (12/6/2019)
- Panel highlights value of post-acute care at AHA Hill briefing (7/9/2019)
- Fact Sheet: Post-acute Care (7/9/2019)
- Fact Sheet: Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities – A Unique and Critical Service (7/9/2019)
- Fact Sheet: Long-Term Care Hospitals (4/5/2019)
- Post-Acute Care Infographic: Enough is Enough (2/27/2019)
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- Webinar: October 14, 2021 Improving Post-acute Network Performance Audio
- Study Downplays Vital Role of Long-term Care Hospitals in Patient Care
- Podcast: Long Term Care Hospitals Addressing Needs of Long Haul COVID Patients
- Podcast: We Do Love Partnering
- Report: Long-term care hospitals playing critical role during pandemic
- AHA Podcast: Mount Sinai see promise in hospitals-at-home model
- Podcast: Acute and Post-Acute providers Join Forces
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Study Downplays Vital Role of Long-term Care Hospitals in Patient Care
Long-term care hospitals, or LTCHs, and the other three post-acute care settings have been central to our recovery from COVID-19. The pandemic has particularly highlighted the distinct clinical competencies of LTCHs. However, a study from the National Bureau of Economic Research that has gotten renewed attention lately makes the erroneous suggestion that shifting patients from LTCHs to skilled nursing facilities can save Medicare money without affecting patient care.
