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Collective Medical Helps Rural Hospital Support High-Risk Patients, Address Avoidable Opioid Use
CHI St. Anthony Hospital (St. Anthony) is rural hospital serving Pendleton, Oregon. The 25-bed critical access hospital is part of the Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) family and currently houses a level four trauma center, four operating rooms, emergency services...
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Collective Medical Helps Providers Manage Behavioral Health Care
The Massachusetts Medicaid healthcare system, known as MassHealth, provides healthcare to one quarter of the state population—at a cost of over 40% of the state budget. Of these patients, many have significant mental, behavioral, medical, and/ or social needs, which...
Collective Medical helps skilled nursing provider cut hospital readmissions by 60%
Marquis/Consonus Companies owns and maintains senior healthcare and assisted living facilities in Oregon, California, and Nevada. Operating through a network of home health care, assisted living, postacute rehabilitation, Alzheimer’s care, pharmacy and rehabilitation,...
Collective Medical helps rural hospital decrease all-cause 30-day readmissions by 78%
CHI St. Anthony Hospital (St. Anthony) is a rural hospital serving Pendleton, Oregon. The 25-bed critical access hospital is part of the Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) family and currently houses a level four trauma center, four operating rooms, emergency services...
Collective Medical Helps Providers Identify and Prevent Opioid Abuse
It started with a question posed by a patient struggling with an opioid use disorder. When asked about his patterns of abuse, he stated, “I figured that if doctors were willing to just give [opioids] to me to help boost satisfaction scores, it must not be that big a...
Collaboration as a Radical Approach to the Opioid Epidemic
Opioid use disorder continues to be a growing problem in the US—causing 49,068 deaths in 2017 and accounting for 66.4% of all drug overdose-related deaths. Learn how care teams across the country have implemented technology-facilitated collaborative care initiatives...
Collective Medical Helps Providers Better Coordinate Transitions of Care
The Portland Clinic has six locations scattered throughout the Portland metropolitan area—including primary care, multispecialty, and two ambulatory surgery centers. As the clinic began to participate in more value-based payer arrangements, leaders looked for a better...
Collective Medical Helps CHI St. Anthony Hospital Support High-Risk Patients, Address Avoidable Opioid Use
CHI St. Anthony Hospital (St. Anthony) is a rural hospital serving Pendleton, Oregon. The 25-bed critical access hospital is part of the Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) family and currently houses a level four trauma center, four operating rooms, emergency services...
Collective Medical Helps Hospital Improve Readmission Rates
Readmission rates are an important focal point for national quality initiatives working to improve patient outcomes and unsustainable healthcare costs. EDs are the point of entry for hospital admissions and readmissions, in addition to emergency care. Knowing that,...
Collective Medical helps ACO reduce cost of care & improve patient satisfaction
Columbia Medical Associates (CMA) is a 60+ provider practice in Spokane, Washington. Part of Kaiser Permanente, CMA is an integrated multi-specialty group practice which serves the greater Spokane area. It participates in the Medicare Shared Savings Program as an ACO....
Collective Medical Helps Behavioral Care Network Coordinate to Improve Patient Outcomes
Mid-Valley Behavioral Care Network (BCN) case managers, psychiatrists, and therapists saw the inefficiencies facing behavioral health when trying to coordinate patient care with the broader care team. Realizing the drawbacks of calling hospitals searching for the...
How better collaboration slowed over-utilization of Pierce County’s EMS resources
Could a patient-centered collaboration between an independent physician association (IPA), healthcare organizations and first responders put an end to the over-utilization of emergency resources? That was the high-stakes question in 2015 facing Northwest Physicians...
Mismatched Motivations at Healthcare Conferences
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending Health Datapalooza in Washington, D.C., a conference that brings together academic medicine, policymakers and healthcare leaders to have meaningful discussions about healthcare data. Since then, I’ve been thinking about the messages I consistently hear about revamping healthcare.