Operational/Financial Efficiency

Toolkits, processes and protocols to improve operational and financial efficiency that offer an edge in a highly competitive market environment.

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	Better to Best: Value-Driving Elements of the Patient Centered Medical Home and Accountable Care Organizations Better to Best: Value-Driving Elements of the Patient Centered Medical Home and Accountable Care Organizations is a new report focusing on the four elements central to the advance of such organizations—access, care coordination, health information technology, and payment reform. The report was supported by the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, The Commonwealth Fund, the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and the Milbank Memorial Fund. The toolkit is available as a PDF and requires Adobe Reader.
	Brookings-Dartmouth Accountable Care Organization Toolkit Covering key topics in six sections, the ACO Toolkit provides a path forward for the implementation of ACOs across the country. The Toolkit strives to be both specific enough to allow organizations to clearly understand the steps needed to become an ACO, and stay broad enough to make sure the path put forward for implementation is possible for a diverse range of health care provider groups. It will also be updated and supplemented to ensure it stays relevant and helpful to health care providers as they face new challenges in advancing more accountable care.
	Bryan LGH Medical Center: ED Connections To help improve patient flow and reduce crowding in the ED, BryanLGH and Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center developed ED Connections. The purpose is to help uninsured patients with chronic medical conditions and mental health problems learn to manage their own care while finding a medical home beyond the Emergency Department. Through this program, patients work with caseworkers to find out about community providers, insurance coverage options, wellness programs and other resources in the area.
	Building Your Medical Home This toolkit for health care professionals helps develop a pediatric medical home and improve patient care. The elements in the toolkit help to increase outcomes, such as health status, timeliness of care, family centeredness, and family functioning in a medical home. Achieving the standards in the toolkit is a requirement to be in the National Committee for Quality Assurance Physician Practice Connections® Patient Centered Medical Home Recognition program. The toolkit was developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics and requires registration. The web-based toolkit requires a web browser.
	Business Case For Breastfeeding: Steps for Creating a Breastfeeding Friendly Worksite Retaining valued employees after childbirth by providing dedicated breast feeding space and worksite lactation support, can be a cost savings to the business. These savings can be result in: Retention of experienced employees; Reduction in sick time taken by both moms and dads for children's illnesses; and Lower health care and insurance costs. The program and toolkit is available as a web page and PDFs, which requires a web browser and Adobe Reader to view it.
	CANCER PATIENT NAVIGATION PROGRAM TOOLKIT This toolkit provides the information needed to establish or implement a 'Patient Navigation Program' in a health care system. The program provides the resources for cancer patients to navigate their way through the healthcare system; from the time their cancer is diagnosed, through testing, surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, survivorship or end-of-life care. Patient navigation services can provide individualized support, care coordination, empowerment and advocacy to assure patients receive quality care. The toolkit is available as a PDF and requires Adobe Reader to view it.
	Capacity Optimizer Tool GE Healthcare created The Capacity Optimizer Self-Assessment Toolkit to assist with effective hospital capacity management. There are many variables to consider, which include: the number of staffed beds (medical, surgical, ICU), annual discharges, and average length of stay (ALOS). Managing these variables; such as reducing staffed beds in certain units, or increasing bed turnover, may help you achieve target utilization. The Capacity Optimizer Self-Assessment Toolkit provides data that can help hospitals develop strategies for improving utilization.
	Cape Canaveral Hospital: Nursing Process Council The Nursing Process Council developed this toolkit to eliminate barriers between staff in order to focus on quality patient care. The toolkit contains methods to identify and resolve issues related to patients within the acute care setting. The Nursing Process Council is focused on empowering staff to make the necessary decisions regarding work setting issues, that could negatively impact patient care. This toolkit provides guidelines for staff to use in order to create positive changes and redesign necessary work setting processes.
	Care About Your Care: Tips for Patients When They Leave the Hospital Developed by The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, along with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this article explores the safe hospital to home transition for patients. The article explains the importance of coordinated care from the patient, caregiver(s), and hospital staff on the day of discharge, and how this can lead to reduced readmissions. The article also helps readers evaluate their present quality of care provided for soon-to-be discharge patients, and how to improve upon this care.
	Care Coordination Forms The New York Care Coordination Program is a collaborative partnership among State and county governments, peers and family members, and mental health provider agencies. The program offers person-centered, recovery-focused care coordination for individuals with severe mental illness (e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression) who have had at least one psychiatric hospitalization. This site provides downloadable versions of the forms, as PDFs and Word documents, used by the program's care coordinators. This guide requires Adobe Reader and Microsoft Word.
	Care Design: Emergency Department (ED) Assessment Tool Developed by GE Healthcare, the ED Assessment Tool is a web-based tool that walks the user through a series of 21 questions regarding their present ED. The tool will then provide a 'score' of the ED facility and recommendations on what factors need to be analyzed further and improved upon.
	Care Management - Implementing the Medication Management Improvement System This toolkit was developed for the purpose of identifying, assessing, and resolving medication problems in home care for older adults. The objective is to detect potential medication problems with drug use and the symptoms associated with specific adverse drug effects. This toolkit provides the tools needed to develop an intervention plan and enable older adults to continue living safely at home. The toolkit is available as a group of web pages and PDFs and requires a web browser and Adobe Reader to view them.