CAHQ The Race Against ACEs Presentation_Final.pptx

3/11/15 The Race Against Avoidable ACEs:
Cedars-Sinai’s strategy for improving healthcare quality through
population care management and coordinated care transition programs
CAHQ Spring Conference
March 16, 2015
Cedars-Sinai Performance Improvement Team
Avi Handa, Salima Jamal, Carey Li
Overview and Objectives
Provide a broad overview of the organizational ACE Avoidance and
Population Health Management vision
Highlight the collaborative effort between Inpatient and Outpatient
Pharmacist teams on safe medication transitions
Share the success of managing care transition from hospital to home
through the Enhanced Home Health program
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Performance Improvement at Cedars-Sinai
Design/
Innovation
Thinking
Cost
Effectiveness
Population
Health
Operations
Quality
Safety
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1 3/11/15 Framework for Optimizing Performance
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Creation of New Metric: Acute Care Episode (ACE)
To ensure that our efforts resulted in meaningful reduction of hospital
utilization and costs, we developed a new metric: an ACE, or Acute Care
Episode. ACEs account for inpatient admissions and observation stays.
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Population Health at Cedars-Sinai
Con$nuum of Care Development Clinical Program
Development
Popula-on Health Lives Managing the Care Process IT Support Patient
Patient and Physician
Engagement
Physician & Community
Network
Value-­‐
Based Contrac-ng Engagement IT/Predictive Modeling
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2 3/11/15 Stratification of Population Health Patients
Most
Complex
Fragile
Chronic Disease
Management
Acute Care Management
Wellness Promotion and Preventative
Care
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Building a Foundation: The ACE Avoidance House
ED Assist
Pain Management and Mental
Health
Post Discharge Medication
Reconciliation
Supportive Care Medicine
Enhanced Care Program (ECP)
NP House Calls
Healing at Home
Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic
Therapy (OPAT)
Disease Management Programs
Weight Management
Surgical ACE Reduction
Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)
CS-360 - Integrated Program
for Highest Risk Patients
Ambulatory Care Management & Total Care Management (for Medicare
Advantage)
Daily Admissions Debrief
Primary and Specialty Care
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Program Highlight:
Safe Medication Transitions
Improving patient education and understanding about medications to ensure safe
medication transitions
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3 3/11/15 Medication List Accuracy, Adherence, and Literacy
Validate
Medication
History
Identify
High- Risk
Patients
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Assess
Adherence
and Literacy
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Educate
Patient
Notify MD
Regarding
DRPs
Identified
along with
Recommend
-ations
PostDischarge
Follow-Up
within 72
Hrs:
-Med Rec
-Adherence &
Literacy
Reinforcemen
t
-Education
Additional
Calls up to
30 Days
Based on
Risk
Assessment
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Identification of High Risk Patients
High Risk Criteria:
•  Age over 65
•  More than 10 chronic medications
•  Therapeutic duplicates
•  Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
Pharmacists’ Clinical Review
Hospitalists and Physician Clinical Review
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Literacy and Adherence
Increase medica$on literacy Increase medica$on adherence Improve clinical outcomes Lower health care spending Bruce Stuart, F. Ellen Loh, Pamela Roberto and Laura M. Miller. Increasing
Medicare Part D Enrollment in Medication Therapy Management Could Improve
Health and Lower Cost. Health Affairs. 2013; 32(7)1212-1220
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4 3/11/15 Measurement of Medication Adherence
Medication Adherence (MMAS-4)⁴
1.  Do you ever forget to take your medicine?
2.  Are you careless at times about taking your medicine?
3.  When you feel better do you sometimes stop taking your
medicine?
4.  Sometimes if you feel worse when you take the medicine, do
you stop taking it?
Scoring: 1 point for every YES answer 0 High adherence 1-­‐2 Intermediate adherence 3-­‐4 Low adherence Morisky D, Green L, Levine D. Concurrent and predictive validity of a self-reported measure of medication adherence. Med Care.
1986;24:67-74.
Bruce Stuart, F. Ellen Loh, Pamela Roberto and Laura M. Miller. Increasing Medicare Part D Enrollment in Medication Therapy
Management Could Improve Health and Lower Cost. Health Affairs. 2013; 32(7)1212-1220
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Measurement of Medication Literacy
Medication Literacy
1. Name all of your medications?
2. Explain the indications for all of your medications?
3. What are the doses for all of your medications?
4. What are the frequencies for all of your medications?
Scoring: 1 point for each category that pa$ents could not answer about all of their medica$ons 0 High literacy 1-­‐2 Intermediate literacy 3-­‐4 Low literacy 13
Determining Post-Discharge Follow-Up Needs
Literacy
High literacy
Intermediate
literacy
Low literacy
High adherence
No post-DC f/u
needed
Educate pt.
No post-DC f/u
needed
Post-DC f/u needed
Intermediate
adherence
Educate pt.
No post-DC f/u
needed
Adherence
Educate pt. No postDC f/u needed?
vs.
Post-DC f/u needed?
Post-DC f/u needed
Use clinical judgment
Low adherence
Post-DC f/u needed
Post-DC f/u needed
Post-DC f/u needed
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5 3/11/15 Patient Education
Goals of Therapy
Medication Understanding
Use language
at 6th grade
level or below
Medication Adherence
Teach-back Methodology
Address further questions
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Post-Discharge Follow-Up within 72 Hours
Patient discharged HOME
 Provide education on discharge medication
regimen
 Instruct patient to pick-up new medications as
soon as possible
 Instruct patient to take all meds as directed at
discharge
 Re-educate patient on the importance of
adherence
 Evaluate if patients need further follow-up
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Post-Discharge Follow-Up within 72 Hours
Pa$ent discharged to Skill Nursing Facili$es (SNF)   Obtain MAR from SNF
  Reconcile discharge
medication list vs. SNF MAR
  Perform Clinical Evaluation
  Identify DRPs
  Clarify discrepancies
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6 3/11/15 Examples of Post-Discharge Follow-up Saves
Reason for Admission Drug-­‐Related Problems Iden$fied Post-­‐Discharge and Pharmacist Interven$on Adverse Outcome Prevented 54 y/o w/ HTN & DVT admiKed for Issue discovered: Pt had self-­‐d/ced warfarin, sickle cell crisis & leN parietal amlodipine, and carvedilol stroke Interven$on: Pharmacist contacted MD and confirmed that warfarin and an--­‐hypertensives should be re-­‐
started. Pharmacist contacted pt and instructed to take all meds as was prescribed at d/c; do not self-­‐start, self-­‐
d/c, self-­‐dose, or adjust any med w/o speaking to MD first; educated pt on the importance of compliance to avoid complica-ons Avoided poten-al occurrence of thromboembolism, readmission, and/or death 92 y/o w/ altered mental status Issue discovered: Pt had con-nued taking medica-ons found to have a UTI & toxic digoxin that had been stopped, including digoxin, metoprolol, level, also w/ arrhythmias & low and zolpidem blood pressure Interven$on: Instructed pa-ent to d/c these medica-ons Avoided poten-al drug toxicity, life-­‐ threatening arrhythmias, recurrence of confusion, and/or death 18
30 Day Readmission Rates
As Treated Population
25% Relative Risk
Reduction: 45%
20% 15% 22%
10% (18/8
2)
5% 12%
(5/41)
0% Did NOT receive interven-on Received interven-on 19
Program Highlight:
Enhanced Home Health
Ensuring high quality patient-centered care transitions from hospital to home
20 7 3/11/15 The Enhanced Home Health Program
7 Touch Points
On-site Liaison
MD Interface
CS-Link access
24/7 On-Call Clinical Support
Building Awareness
Data Collection & Documentation
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The EHH Population
EHH Case Mix Index Type of Hospital Encounter 3 2.5 2 1.5 Medicine 35% CMI Surgery 65% 1 0.5 0 1 22
Enhanced Home Health Protocol
Touch points to occur within the first two weeks of discharge
Pre-Discharge
Hospital Visit
with Home
Health Liaison
Week 1

Intro Phone
Call
Identify red
flags
Address
questions/
anxiety
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• 
24 – 48 Hours prior to
discharge
Evening of
Discharge
Week 2-4

Med compliance
Vitals
Well-being
assessment
Monday-Thursday
Minimum of 1 home
visit
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Med rec
Safety check
Assessment &
education
Identify other
disciplines that
may be needed
Day after
discharge
Tuck-in Phone
call
Home visit
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• 
Home visit
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• 
• 
• 
Address questions
Schedule next home
visit
2nd Friday patient is at
home
Home visit
Tuck-in Phone
call
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• 
(2-3 in first week)
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Med
compliance
• 
Vitals
assessment
• 
Schedule next
home visit
Identify red
flags
Schedule next
home visit
MD Follow up
appointment?
1st Friday patient is at
home
Home visit
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• 
Med compliance
Vitals
Well-being
assessment
2nd weekend that
patient is at home
1st weekend patient is
at home
Tuck-in Phone
call
• 
• 
Address questions
Schedule next home
visit
Weekly 15-30 days
post discharge
23 8 3/11/15 Goal: Reduce Average EHH Readmission Rate to 10%
Average EHH readmission rate (Mar-14 – Oct -14) = 11.1%
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Empathy Interviews
Patient’s trigger point
•  Pain
•  Afraid
Key findings
•  Strong patient/nurse relationship
•  Compassionate care
Opportunities
•  Accessibility to contacts
•  Consistent patient education
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Continued Performance and Process Improvements
CS-Link (Epic EMR) Access
Agency liaisons in the ED
Home health agency and Attending Physician communications
Alignment of patient education materials
Real time feedback using patient interviews
Agency clinical huddles
Agency check-in meetings
Organizational engagement through Grand Rounds
Epic Home Health build
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9 3/11/15 Q&A
Questions?
Thank you!
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