Surgical patients had better outcomes in 2024 vs. 2019, with fewer infections, falls, and major complications, per AHA and Vizient® report.
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Encompass Health provides post-acute care for patients who are recovering from life-changing illnesses and injuries, including strokes and other neurological disorders, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, amputations and complex orthopedic conditions.
Advocate Health is a trusted not-for-profit provider of both in-person and virtual care for seriously and chronically ill patients. With more than 20 years of experience delivering post-acute care, the Advocate Health Continuing Health (AHCH) division, Midwest, touches the lives of more than 24,000 patients each day. Its unique, collaborative care approach leads patients to recover faster and stronger.
The health system saw an additional 37,000 referrals kept in-network when compared to the prior year, significantly improving its financial performance.
The AHA and Concord Health Partners have compiled this collection of resources to provide more information about innovative solutions to key issues.
CHI Living Communities: Providing post-acute care in 21 states, we serve and advocate for underserved communities with independent living, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing options. Discover our faith-based approach to care.
The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, based in Sioux Falls, SD, is North America’s largest not-for-profit provider of senior care and services. Its more than 200 locations are primarily concentrated in the Midwestern U.S.
As a long-term care hospital (LTCH), RML specializes in serving patients with highly complex needs for an extended period of time, many for 25 days or longer. Founded in 1987, RML is the largest ventilator-weaning hospital in the United States along with one of the largest inpatient dialysis populations at any LTCH in the country.
Sky Lakes Medical Center (SLMC), located in Klamath Falls, Oregon, is a rural, not-for-profit, community-owned, internationally accredited acute-care teaching hospital.
Recent weeks of surging COVID-19 cases in Texas have strained the state’s health care system. In response, post-acute care hospitals are forging closer relationships with their referral partners to optimize resources needed to treat COVID-19-positive and medically complex recovering COVID-19 patients. Highacuity COVID-19 patients often require more extensive clinical services over a longer period of time.
Post-acute care providers play an essential role in ensuring that patients receive the care they need to heal and have a smooth transition back to a community-based setting, typically after a disch
A list of benefits and risks of participating in an alternative payment model (APM), and the questions you should ask your leadership as part of your decision-making process.
AHA has compiled this list of qualified clinical data registries (QCDRs) that support reporting of the MIPS measures and/or specialties most relevant for post-acute providers.
A new AHA report that finds non-clinical regulatory requirements cost providers nearly $39 billion a year and divert clinicians from patient care.
This critique examines the prototype Medicare payment system for post-acute care (PAC) developed by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) in 2016.
Holy Family Medical Center - Des Plaines, Illinois. Reducing Long Term Acute Care Hospital \(LTACH\) Central-Line Associated Bloodstream Infection \(CLABSI\) Episodes.
Medicare is the primary payer for most hospital-based post-acute providers. The number of Medicare patients receiving post-acute care has increased and those receiving post-acute services are receiving more intensive care.