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Pre-Summit Workshop on Establishing Continuity of Care when Transferring High Risk Patients between Acute Care and Long Term Care Facilities
Thursday, January 27, 2011
7:30 am -
8:30 am
Pre-Summit Workshop Registration and Welcome Coffee in the Executive Networking Lounge
8:30 am -
9:30 am
Transitioning Patients from the Emergency Department and Hospital and the Communication Process
  • Understand which populations are at higher risk for problems during care transitions
  • Discuss why long-term care facilities can benefit from implementing strategies to improve care transitions
  • Present examples of what home care and skilled nursing facilities are doing to help avoid hospital re-admissions
Alicia Arbaje, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Associate Director of Transitional Care Research, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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9:30 am -
10:20 am
Geriatric Care Management and Web-Based Technology to Deliver Safe Transitions and Coordinated Quality Care for Patients with Complex Chronic Conditions
  • Grasp how an integrated care management model can address implications shifting demographics (an aging population with growing number of chronic conditions), public perceptions and healthcare reform will have on hospitalizations and reimbursements
  • Hear how hospital readmissions are impacted by the reality that 8 in 10 adults over 65 have physical limitations - and half need help with activities of daily living such as eating or walking
  • Understand evidence-based models to substantially improve outcomes and reduce costs for the top 5 percent most costly patients, which account for half of all hospital costs
  • Learn how key technologies impacting care coordination in the homes of elderly patients with complex conditions work to reduce hospitalizations including considerations for tele-care management versus face-to-face care management
  • Gain perspective from hospital and health management executive to help tailor approach to reducing rehospitalizations of frail elderly based on the patients' chronic conditions and functionality
Eric Rackow, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer
SeniorBridge

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10:20 am -
10:40 am
Networking and Refreshment Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
10:40 am -
11:30 am
CASE STUDY: Bridging the Gap Between Acute Care and Post Acute Care
  • Hear how The Methodist Hospital started Continuity of Care and the progress to date
  • Discover how to work with post acute care facilities and create equal partnerships with acute care facilities
  • Learn how to make connections to community care to help with care transitions
Lynda Collins
Director Continuity of Care
The Methodist Hospital

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