tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2011 Issue 6

Case Study: Bringing On an MD + NP Hospitalist Team Proves to Be a Smart Move for This Multi-Provider Organization

The approach reduced rehospitalization and helps position the organization to become an ACO. Healthcare organizations looking to reduce their rate of skilled nursing facility patient rehospitalizations -- and tap a new market of higher acuity SNF patients -- might consider taking notes from Providence St. Joseph Care Center, which is part of Providence Healthcare, a multiprovider system that includes two hospitals. The organization's SNF has accomplished those goals and more by hiring an adult nurse practitioner (ARNP) full-time and a medical doctor part-time, both of whom are hospitalists, says Sally Denton, RN, executive director/administrator of the center in Spokane...

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