Beverly and Addison Gilbert Hospitals Launch Programs to Improve Care Integration
Innovative projects from Phase 2 of Massachusetts Health Policy Commission CHART Grant will better coordinate patient care and integrate behavioral health
Caption: The CHART Phase 2 grants are two-year investments intended to accelerate the transformation of hospitals by focusing on outcome-oriented aims, including reducing waste, improving safety, maximizing appropriate usage, and enhancing behavioral health care. (From left to right): Brady Fish, Program Officer, Care Delivery Innovation and Investment, Health Policy Commission; Jean Alden-St.Pierre, Program Manager, High Risk Intervention Team, Beverly and Addison Gilbert Hospitals; Iyah Romm, Director of Policy for Care Delivery Innovation & Investment, Health Policy Commission; Nancy Palmer, Chair of the Northeast Hospital Corporation Board of Trustees; Phil Cormier, Chief Executive Officer, Beverly and Addison Gilbert Hospitals; Cynthia Cafasso Donaldson, Vice President, Addison Gilbert Hospital and Lahey Outpatient Center Danvers
BEVERLY, MA – December 4, 2015 – On Thursday, Dec. 3, Beverly and Addison Gilbert Hospitals, affiliates of Lahey Health, commemorated the launch of innovative new programs designed to integrate technology, increase coordination and manage complex care across a patient’s lifespan. The hospitals were awarded grants to fund these programs in Phase 2 of the Health Policy Commission’s (HPC) Community Hospital Acceleration, Revitalization, and Transformation (CHART) Investment Program. The CHART Phase 2 grants are two-year investments intended to accelerate the transformation of hospitals by focusing on outcome-oriented aims, including reducing waste, improving safety, maximizing appropriate usage, and enhancing behavioral health care.
“Beverly and Addison Gilbert Hospitals have developed truly innovative ways to not only improve the health of the communities they serve, but also reduce the overall cost of health care in the Commonwealth,” said Howard Grant, JD, MD, president and chief executive officer of Lahey Health. “The CHART 2 programs at Beverly and Addison Gilbert Hospitals align with Lahey Health’s strategic vision of increasing patient satisfaction by responsibly managing the cost of care without sacrificing quality, safety, or clinical excellence.”
The Hospitals’ CHART 2 programs are:
Addison Gilbert Hospital was awarded $1.269 million to scale up the activities of its High-Risk Intervention team. This team’s goal is to improve quality, build efficiencies and reduce costs by addressing gaps in the care of patients with complex social, behavioral and medical needs in the community. The team aims to reduce 30-day readmissions for patients with a history of recurrent hospital or emergency department use, social complexity, and/or need for palliative care services through the use of new procedures and workflows, new relationships within the hospital and community partners, and through the collection and analysis of data.
Beverly Hospital received $2.5 million to transform the quality, safety and cost of care delivered in the hospital and in the community in collaboration with community-based partners. The hospital will work toward addressing the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s” Triple Aim,” incorporating next-generation health technology and enhancing behavioral health for high-risk patients. Beverly Hospital’s goal is to implement an operational plan to reduce unnecessary acute care utilization through evidence-based care for high-risk patients. Beverly’s plan will increase cost efficiency, enhance patient access to social services, improve clinical interventions, and optimize coordination to provide patient care in the most appropriate setting in order to effectively engage patients and their families.
“CHART hospitals were issued a challenge: propose initiatives that will put you on a path of transformation, while meeting the critical health care needs of your community,” said David Seltz, Executive Director of the HPC. “Today, I’m pleased to report that Addison Gilbert and Beverly Hospital have exceeded that challenge. We look forward to continuing to partner with both hospitals and the communities they serve to build a more coordinated and affordable health care system.”
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Lahey Health is what's next in healthcare, providing a full continuum of integrated health services close to where you live or work. It is comprised of nationally recognized, award-winning hospitals—including an academic hospital and medical center, and community hospitals—primary care providers, specialist physicians, behavioral health services, post-acute programs such as home health services, skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities, and senior care resources located throughout northeastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire.
Lahey Health offers nearly 1,000 locally based physicians providing clinical excellence and an exceptional patient experience in adult and pediatric primary care and every medical specialty, including kidney and liver transplantation; neurosurgery, cancer, cardiovascular and orthopedic medical and surgical care; local emergency and trauma care; urological surgery; chronic disease prevention and health management; and pediatric emergency, newborn and inpatient care provided in collaboration with Boston Children's Hospital physicians.
Lahey Health includes Lahey Hospital & Medical Center—a teaching hospital of Tufts University School of Medicine—and Lahey Clinic physician group with practices in Burlington, Peabody and other locations throughout northeastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire; Beverly Hospital; Addison Gilbert Hospital in Gloucester, Mass.; Winchester Hospital; Lahey Health Senior Care and Lahey Health Behavioral Services as well as more than 30 primary care physician practices and multiple outpatient and satellite specialty care facilities.
Together, we are making innovative, integrated healthcare more personal and more accessible. For more information, visit LaheyHealth.org and its member websites Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Beverly Hospital, Addison Gilbert Hospital, Winchester Hospital, Lahey Health Senior Care and Lahey Health Behavioral Services.
About the Health Policy Commission
The HPC is an independent state agency that seeks to advance a more transparent, accountable, and innovative health care system through independent policy leadership and investment programs. To learn more, please visit www.mass.gov/hpc or follow us on Twitter @Mass_HPC.
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Daniel Marra
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