How to Think Like an Accountable Care Organization - Integrating Case Management Across the Continuum

This program provides the attendee with concrete and implementable strategies for integrating and embedding case management across the continuum of care.

Why Should You Attend:

While some hospitals are participating with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as an accountable care organization (ACO), others are not yet participating. Even if your hospital or health system is currently not participating, many of the new CMS initiatives and payment changes still require that you think and behave like one. Bundled payments are one such example in which quality of care and costs must be managed across the continuum. Evidence shows us that case management can serve as the lynch pin that connects departments and disciplines across the continuum while retaining the patient as the center figure in the process.

In this webinar you will learn how to coordinate the patient’s transition between healthcare systems and settings such as moving from the hospital to rehabilitation and home settings. We will discuss ways in which to maintain open communication between the patient, patient’s family or caregiver and other members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team at all times regarding the transitional location.

In this training, there will be a discussion on how to apply strategies for involving the patient and family in decisions regarding care and transitional options. Since many factors impact on the integration of case management among and between providers these will be covered in detail including the role of the patient/family, physicians and other providers of care, case management and post-acute providers.

Finally we will review best practice strategies for ensuring that patients do not fall between the many cracks and gaps in today’s healthcare systems.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Case management as a strategy for linking patients across the continuum
• A contemporary description of the continuum of care
• Applications of case management regardless of setting
• How to engage stakeholders in patient care transitions
• The three components of care transitions
• The influences on patient care transitions
• Internal and external solutions to care transitions
• Developing an ACO mentality
• A review of community case management

Who Will Benefit:

• Director of Case Management
• Director of Finance
• Case Managers
• Social Workers
• Vice President of Case Management
• Directors of Patient Centered Medical Homes
• Home Care Directors and Managers
• Home Care Case Managers
• Community-Based Providers
• Long-Term Care providers
• Community-Based providers
• Community-Based Case Managers and Social Workers