Care Logistics Provides Patient Progress Solutions for ED Discharge Delays

March 29, 2019

Discharge delays can be a serious challenge for health care facilities and their impact can be felt across organizations. Fortunately, a solution exists to achieve on-time discharges. Addressing, and preventing, discharge delays can be accomplished through a series of strategies that involve setting appropriate length-of-stay goals, utilizing real-time progression updates, and establishing communication protocols. This…

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Data Firm can help VHHA Members Reduce Practice Subsidies, Prepare for Population Health

December 14, 2018

VHHA Shared Services is pleased to announce it has selected Engage Practice Solutions, an innovative data benchmarking and performance analytics company, to assist member hospitals and health systems with provider network profitability. The company’s benchmarking and predictive analytics tools utilize its patent-pending Patient Complexity Index© (PCI). Developed by clinicians, PCI provides patient severity adjusted viewpoints…

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Beyond EMR: Four Best Practices for Optimizing Efficiency

October 26, 2018

As hospitals and clinicians have settled in to the relatively new world of electronic medical records (EMR), there is an interest in finding new ways to maximize that investment and benefit from the vast datasets these systems collect. Care Logistics, a VHHA Shared Services endorsed partner,  helps health care organizations achieve maximum benefits by aligning…

Keywords: Clinical Excellence,Financial Performance,IT Solutions,Performance Improvement,Quality & Risk Improvement
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Care Logistics Deploys Best Practice Patient Care Progression at the Unit Level

February 21, 2018

With Care Logistics’ Care Progression solution, your care teams can more effectively work toward a common care plan and length-of-stay goal for each patient. Staff can readily identify patients who aren’t progressing as expected and reasons why, giving teams confidence that progression barriers are being addressed proactively. Nursing units provide timely, quality patient care which…

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Optimize Inpatient Services through Enhanced Care Team Coordination

December 8, 2017

Endorsed by VHHA Shared Services, Care Logistics helps hospitals optimize the prioritization and allocation of inpatient services. With Order Logistics software and processes, Care Logistics clients benefit from real time tracking of all current and planned individual patient clinical activity, room assignments, admission and discharge times, and movements. Some specific enhancements include: Patient services (lab,…

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Improve Patient Experience through High Reliability Process Engineering

July 7, 2017

VHHA Shared Services has selected Care Logistics as a distinctly unique patient care progression company that combines breakthrough approaches to care coordination with innovative care progression software. Care Logistics is committed to helping its customers achieve dramatic results in patient throughput, quality, and experience. The Care Logistics team has extensive expertise in process engineering, change…

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VHHA Members Recognized in Truven 100 Top Hospital Study

March 17, 2017

Henrico Doctor’s Hospital, Inova Fair Oaks Hospital, and Sentara Leigh Hospital have been named among Truven Health’s 100 Top Hospital study. For 24 years, the 100 Top Hospital program has conducted an annual study based on publicly available data that includes metrics such as length of state, mortality, cost efficiency, and patient experience. The goal…

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Truven Benchmarking Tool Supports Operational Performance Improvement

February 24, 2017

Now, more than ever, health care organizations need to sharpen their ability to identify and act on operational performance improvement opportunities. The key to success is realistic comparisons with best-in-class organizations, or benchmarking. The Truven Health ActionOI® performance improvement solution has tools that can be used to evaluate operational and financial performance head-to-head with organizations…

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Complimentary Webinar on Preparing for Episode Payment Models Set for Feb. 15

February 10, 2017

The Advancing Care Coordination through Episode Payment Models (EPM) Final Rule is another step toward adoption of value-based care. However, recent comments have some wondering if CMS bundled payment programs will be delayed or otherwise altered by the new administration. Despite uncertainty in Washington, there is widespread agreement that the future of care delivery is…

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