HealthPivots reports are critical in my work to improve our hospital leadership’s understanding that tight alignment with our post-acute care services reduces LOS, 30-day readmissions, improves patient care, achieves the Triple Aim and Providence’s mission, vision and core values.

Specifically, Providence Senior and Community Services won approval for a $17 m renovation of an older skilled nursing facility in Spokane in large part due to our ability to measure the value of post-acute care alignment. Using various HealthPivots SNF tools, I showed that by increasing admissions to our SNF, two Providence hospitals have to opportunity to reduce readmissions by 10% or 46%, reduce their acute care LOS at one hospital by 1.4 days and increase their through put for a potential cost savings of almost $900K. Construction started last summer and the SNF recently opened a new wing with completely renovated rooms, new nursing stations and an increased capability to serve the bariatric population.