clinic

Care transitions, particularly from an inpatient setting to home, can be a challenging time for patients who may be dealing with a medical crisis, a new medical condition, or change in care plan. Poor transitions of care can lead to a variety of negative outcomes, including medication discrepancies, adverse clinical events, poor patient experience of care, and frequently avoidable hospitalizations. Improving care transitions has been an important strategy for reducing the costs associated with hospitalization and readmissions¹ and proves to be an important opportunity for addressing social determinants of health². Transitional Care Management (TCM) serves to manage this hand-off period offering an excellent opportunity for primary care providers to oversee and coordinate support for a patient's medical conditions, mental health or behavioral health needs, social services, and other barriers to optimal patient outcomes.

Care transitions, particularly from an inpatient setting to home, can be a challenging time for patients who may be dealing with a medical crisis, a new medical condition, or change in care plan. Poor transitions of care can lead to a variety of negative outcomes, including medication discrepancies, adverse clinical events, poor patient experience of care, and frequently avoidable hospitalizations. Improving care transitions has been an important strategy for reducing the costs associated with hospitalization and readmissions¹ and proves to be an important opportunity for addressing social determinants of health². Transitional Care Management (TCM) serves to manage this hand-off period offering an excellent opportunity for primary care providers to oversee and coordinate support for a patient's medical conditions, mental health or behavioral health needs, social services, and other barriers to optimal patient outcomes.

At the start of the new year in 2023 Genesis Family Health looked at the issues facing their community and wanted to find ways to use community outreach to engage their expectant mothers in health education.  Their Care Team came up with the idea to gather maternity patients together to create baby gifts or to make items needed for their new babies and wanted to use those gatherings to share health education with expectant mothers.

KHC provides no-cost education, training, resources and funding for small or rural practices with a need for immediate assistance.

More Info

KHC is currently seeking clinicians and hospitals who are interested in participating in quality improvement initiatives to improve patient outcomes and prevent disease and disease progression.  KHC provides no-cost technical assistance to clinicians and hospitals participating in these initiatives.  Contact Mandy Johnson This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.

Jenni Peters, Jill Daughhetee and Patty Thomsen recently achieved Certified Rural Health Clinic Professional certification through the National Association of Rural Health Clinics (NARHC). "The National Association of Rural Health Clinics knows that in order for RHCs to thrive and grow, their employees, especially those in a leadership role, need the most up to date information on the federal and state guidelines pertaining to the Rural Health Clinic program. RHCs have distinctly different rules when it comes to operations and management," says the NARHC.

More Information

Register for the

2023 Summit on Quality!

More Info