Case Study

The opportunities for reducing hospital readmissions within accountable care organizations are vast, but effecting change is never easy. Learn how Accountable Care Organization Infirmary Health improved patient outcomes and achieved a positive ROI in Year 1 with the Watershed platform, and how other accountable care organizations may be poised to do the same.

Accountable Care Organization - Accountable Care Organizations

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The ACO Achilles Heel: Avoidable Hospital Readmissions
Hospital readmissions are costly in every way. A patient readmitted to the hospital is twice as likely to die over the following two years. Financially, hospital readmissions represent the single largest opportunity for Accountable Care Organizations to reduce both acute and post-acute care spend. But to lower these costs, ACOs must choose those post-acute providers that will deliver optimal outcomes for their patients. Unfortunately, existing post-acute ratings systems, including the gold standard metrics created by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, are retrospective, based on historical claims and self-reported data rather than real-time information. More importantly, they do not correlate with an organization’s ability to deliver optimal outcomes...

With so many care management software companies in existence today, it’s difficult for health systems to know which patient care coordination software, post acute referral tools or other health technology is right for them.

Learn how one hospital broke the mode of traditional patient care coordination software, working with the Watershed platform to improve patient outcomes and teach other providers in the community to do the same.

Care management Software Companies - Patient Care Coordination Software

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Springhill integrated the Watershed post acute care management platform into their existing EHR and workflows in less than 4 weeks and Watershed proved its value quickly. “With Watershed, I could handle my patients more effectively, and in half the time,” said Springhill Care Coordinator Janel Oestriecher. Additionally, Watershed’s novel risk stratification process helped uncover patients most at risk for adverse outcomes such as avoidable hospital readmission. But the unparalleled difference was that Watershed leveraged existing hospital and post-acute network resources to drive better patient outcomes. “It turns out that the resources we needed to be successful were here all along,” explained Springhill CEO Jeff St. Clair. He quickly rallied the hospital’s post-acute care providers around this new option.

Case Study: Infirmary Health – Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Success

Case Study: Springhill Medical Center – How Watershed Went Beyond Traditional Care Management to Dramatically Reduce Readmissions