Acute Care Quality Management

Strategies to reduce emergency department boarding, shorten length of stay, improve bed availability, and enhance patient and staff satisfaction

Ensuring patients receive the right level of care, at the right time and setting, by aligning clinical appropriateness, resource use, and regulatory requirements to optimize outcomes and efficiency

Coordination and collaboration of healthcare delivery by physicians, mid-level providers, nurses, and ancillary staff to ensure high-quality and affordability

Alignment of providers, case management, and social services to discuss clinical decision-making, care coordination, and discharge planning in real time to reduce delays, optimize patient flow, and ensure safe, timely transitions of care

Safety net programs to reduce 30-day all-cause hospital and SNF readmission rates by focusing on discharge diagnoses and disposition groups

Identification of appropriate services and placement to ensure safe transitions, prevent avoidable readmissions, and support sustained recovery beyond discharge