Take Six with Rhonda Colson, Project Manager
Can you start by sharing how long you’ve worked at CarePort, and what drew you to the company? Technically, I’ve worked at CarePort since August 2021. However, I began consulting for CarePort three months before that, in May 2021. I also worked for Extended Care Information Network (ECIN) – which was acquired by Allscripts in 2008 […]
PPCP and CarePort: post-acute care workflows
In CarePort’s thought leadership webinar with Preferred Primary Care Providers (PPCP), the largest independent primary care practice in Western Pennsylvania shared how it struggled to understand real-time events such emergency department (ED) visits, readmissions, and referral patterns from hospitals and post-acute providers because of a reliance on delayed and often incomplete information from electronic medical records (EMRs), claims […]
PPCP and CarePort: complex care management
CarePort recently hosted a thought leadership webinar with Preferred Primary Care Providers (PPCP), the largest independent primary care practice in Western Pennsylvania. Prior to implementing CarePort, PPCP struggled to understand real-time events emergency department (ED) visits, readmissions, and referral patterns from hospitals and post-acute providers, and relied upon data from various sources – including ADT […]
PPCP and CarePort: real-time patient management
CarePort recently hosted a thought leadership webinar with Preferred Primary Care Providers (PPCP), the largest independent primary care practice in Western Pennsylvania. Joining us for the discussion were Justin Dunn, Director of Operations and Planning; Vanessa Blaha, MSN, MBA, RN, Director of Care Management; and Stewart Gregerson, Operations Business Analyst all from Agilon Health, PPCP’s […]
COVID-19 and the nursing home staffing crisis
Post-acute facilities rely on the labor of 1.2 million health care personnel and support workers. However, the COVID-19 pandemic – which imposed unforeseen demands on nursing home and skilled nursing facility (SNF) staff – a widespread labor shortage, and the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for long-term care employees have contributed to unprecedented staffing challenges. In […]
Ambulatory providers: achieving TCM success
As hospitals and health systems increasingly rely on ambulatory care providers to support patient care outside the four walls of a hospital, ambulatory providers must work to ensure a patient’s successful transition and recovery when moving from one care setting to another – such as from the hospital to the home. To improve patient transitions […]
Care transitions: 3 major challenges for post-acute providers
In today’s shifting changing healthcare environment made more complex by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, post-acute providers are looking for ways to simplify, streamline, and optimize care transition processes between multiple care settings and community resources. In this blog post, we outline three major care coordination challenges that post-acute providers are facing, and how CarePort’s comprehensive, robust […]
Take Six with Charles Mastin, Principal UX Designer
You’ve been with CarePort for just over a year. Why were you originally interested in working at CarePort? I had just moved from San Francisco to rural Ohio and was beginning to get restless after taking a break from work for a few months. I hopped on LinkedIn and a noticed a post at the […]
Achieving success in skilled nursing after COVID-19
After a trying 2020, long-term care leaders must reimagine how to provide care to those they serve. During a recent webinar hosted by WellSky, Teresa Remy, director of clinical services at LeaderStat, reviewed emerging trends and best practices to help long-term leaders position their organizations for success – and most importantly, to ensure patients receive high-quality care – in […]
What the data tells us: the pandemic’s impact on acute and post-acute care
WellSky recently hosted a webinar with Tom Martin, director of post-acute care analytics at CarePort and Teresa Remy, director of clinical services at LeaderStat. Highlighting CarePort data, Tom reviewed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the acute and post-acute settings – including inpatient volumes, post-acute referral patterns, and patient profiles at the post-acute level […]
Roundtable takeaways: home- and community-based care, and new care models
CarePort recently hosted a virtual executive roundtable with Dr. Lissy Hu, CarePort CEO and founder, Mike Ipekdjian, Manager of Clinical and Solution Architects, and Mark Heron, Vice President. Alongside attendees from the healthcare industry, Lissy, Mike, and Mark held an interactive discussion centered around the current state of care coordination amidst a backdrop of COVID-19, […]
Increasing SNF and home health referral volumes with CarePort Referral Management
Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients who would normally go to SNFs for rehabilitation and recovery following their hospital stay are now instead opting for home health. As we’ve shared previously, discharges to the home health setting grew significantly in 2020; as of March 2021, home health comprised approximately 60% of referrals while SNF […]
