CARE MANAGEMENT AT RUSH: A FOCUS ON PRIMARY CARE Robyn Golden, LCSW Associate Vice President, Popula3on Health and Aging Rush University Medical Center
“Social work involvement, whether through leadership roles or core services within an interprofessional team, has posi3ve effects on heath outcomes and is less expensive then usual care that may not include social work.” - American Journal of Public Health, 2017
Healthcare’s Blind Slide- It takes a team!
An Opportunity to Contribute • Role for social workers in enhancing the pa<ent’s primary care encounter and addressing the “Blind Side” • Address gaps in care resul3ng from insufficient 3me, staff, resources • Provide compensatory support to meet pa3ents’ medical and psychosocial concerns • Assess pa3ents’ psychosocial considera3ons and their impact on medical status • Educate providers how to support pa3ent self-management
Our Work at Rush Rush Popula+on Health and Aging services advance Rush’s vision of transforming health care by providing tailored support and longitudinal care management to address the unique barriers to health and wellness for individuals, families, and communi+es . We accomplish this by: • Addressing the social determinants of health • Focusing on the needs of the whole person in the context of caregivers and the community • Reducing fragmenta<on across disciplines and care seLngs • Improving interprofessional collabora<on and suppor3ng front line care teams • Developing best and promising prac<ces for care management
Population Health and Aging at Rush Services • Transi3onal care • Primary care-based care management • Behavioral health care management • Care management for neurology and cancer care • Care management for value-based contracts (Medicaid, Medicare) • Psychotherapy • Evidence-based workshops • Resource Centers and programming • Helpline and centralized intake Staffing / Workflow • SW staffed and supported by centralized departments • SW integrated into Rush primary care, outpa3ent specialty care, and discharge planning teams • SW par3cipates in interprofessional rounding (hospital and clinics) • Interven3ons ini3ated via clinician referral, posi3ve screener (PHQ-9), registry, or self-referral via helpline
AIMS: An outpatient intervention • Ambulatory Integra<on of the Medical and Social Model (AIMS) • Team of Master’s level clinical social workers integrated into primary and outpa3ent specialty care teams Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 MD/team referral, Step 4 ini<ates Pa<ent / Assessment Step 5 Case Caregiver & Care Plan Management Engagement Development (Telephonic Goal or in-person) ASainment Ongoing Care Supports, as needed www.theaimsmodel.org (Rowe, et al., 2016)
Intervention Documentation: EPIC EMR
AIMS in Action: Mr. W • Pa<ent: Mr. W: 78-year-old, AA man living alone in large metropolitan area • Presen<ng issues: inadequate finances, depression, mul3ple chronic condi3ons (diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, GERD, chronic renal insufficiency), transplant history • Contacts: 2 in person, 6 telephonic • Clinical skills/ac<vi<es: mul3dimensional assessment, care coordina3on, mo3va3onal interviewing, resource linkage, psychoeduca3on, counseling strategies (CBT, MI, rela3onal/interpersonal), interprofessional collabora3on • Outcome: connec3on to benefits programs, reduced financial stress, engagement in psychotherapy, self-reported improved confidence in ability to manage chronic condi3ons
Social Work Contributions • Care Management tasks • Average <me spent addressing non-medical • Mul3-dimensional assessment needs: 155.15 minutes • Care plan development (SD=85.82) • Iden3fy and coordinate services • Pa3ent engagement • Pa3ent contact, family member contact, agency contacts, • Resources to support ongoing consulta3on with other care members of health care team, • Specialized skills 3me researching services and • Strength-bases approach supports • Mo3va3onal Interviewing • Does NOT include 3me documen3ng in EHR • Behavioral Strategies (CBT) • Psychoeduca3on
Measuring Our Impact • To date: Posi<ve pa<ent and provider feedback in surveys, promising results in retrospec<ve study of u<liza<on for AIMS par<cipants vs. similar Rush popula<on, 50+ years old AIMS Mean Rush Comparison U<liza<on Metric (n=640) (n=5,987) Hospital Admission 0.51* 1.0 30-day Readmissions 0.15* 0.35 ED Visits 0.10* 0.95 *StaAsAcally significant using one-sample t-test • Current research efforts • Quasi-experimental study of impact on u3liza3on, health, and sa3sfac3on • Iden3fying returns on investment in AIMS interven3ons • Quan3fying social work impact on provider sa3sfac3on / burnout rates • Impact on depression scores (Rowe, et al., 2016)
Provider Satisfaction and Burnout Survey • 35-item ques3onnaire about how addressing pa3ents' social needs affects provider sa3sfac3on and prac3ce Impacts on Prac<ce (n=59) Agree Pa3ents’ unmet non-medical needs prevent from providing 45 (76.3%) quality care. Addressing unmet non-medical needs takes 3me from 46 (79.4%) addressing pa3ents’ health care needs. When unable to address my pa3ents’ social needs, they are at 50 (84.8% risk of nega3ve outcomes.
Publications
Growth Opportunities • Con<nuing to refine model, • Sustainability avenues iden<fy best prac<ces & • Medicare FFS billing impact opportuni3es (PCP bills) • Chronic Care Management (99490, 99487, 99489) • Community-based • General Behavioral Health organiza<ons (CBOs) IntegraAon (99484) implemen<ng AIMS in • Quality metrics – MACRA, Merit- based Inven3ve Payment System partnership with local • U3liza3on reduc3on – ACOs prac<ces / health systems • Aging network and other CBOs • We’re always looking for more partners!
Building Our Future • Our Center for Excellence in Aging transforms health care at Rush to enable individuals, families and communi3es to live healthy as long as possible • Our Center for Health and Social Care Integra<on serves as a na3onal convening and technical assistance hub to advance prac3ces (like AIMS) that break down barriers to health • Helped plan a consensus study from the Na<onal Academies on “Integra3ng Social Needs Care Into the Delivery of Health Care to Improve the Na3on's Health” • Fully funded! Launching summer 2018
Thank you! Want to learn more or explore replica<ng AIMS? Robyn Golden, LCSW Associate Vice President of Popula3on Health and Aging Robyn_L_Golden@rush.edu
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