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Feature
Significant Improvement in Patient
Outcomes at Jewish Home Lifecare

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ecently Jewish Home Lifecare prioritized an initiative to improve wound healing among
their long-term and rehab populations. With lower than average QM rates, reducing the
incidence of wound-related complications at this 5-Star New York City-based skilled nursing
facility was a critical opportunity to enhance quality care.
Additionally, as a by-product of improving clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction scores,
Jewish Home could expect other potential gains, including such advantages as:
• Alleviating burden on nursing, medical staff;
• Reducing incidences of rehospitalization;
• Ensuring above-board state survey results;
• Decreasing costs (staff, supplies and other resources needed for wound therapy);
• Enhancing case-mix reimbursement; and
• Improving overall reimbursement (as with Quality Pool bonus).
The team at Jewish Home committed to a comprehensive wound care program in April 2014.
Background
Jewish Home enlisted the expertise of its rehabilitation partners, HealthPRO® Rehabilitation,
and Accelerated Care Plus® – to establish a strategy and collaborate with the nursing and
medical staff. Clinical specialists and operations experts from both companies pooled their
experience, resources and knowledge to roll out each phase of this flagship project.
Phase One: Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices
The Jewish Home Medical and Nursing Teams evaluated the evidenced-based research
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