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“You want me to ask my community staff to add an up to 90-minute meeting to their week?! Really!&*” I often encounter this reaction when I introduce the concept of HigherPath Care Coordination Councils to operators interested in the Value-Based Care Alliance of Virginia. But hear me out: It’s actually a brilliant way to SAVE your staff time AND take better care of residents. The HigherPath meetings are weekly, up to 90-minute in-person gatherings of interdisciplinary care teams. This includes the executive director, nursing, activities, and sales directors, along with external providers like rehab and primary care specialists. These sessions have a clear agenda for discussing resident issues, reviewing actions from prior meetings, and ensuring no resident needs are overlooked. Nursing directors report saving 4-6 hours weekly on coordination and calls thanks to these meetings. And those aren't the only big improvements: - A 10% reduction in weekly ER visits - A 55% decrease in falls resulting in injury - Medication errors eliminated entirely - A 25% increase in resident satisfaction - Over a 100% boost in staff happiness Is all that worth 90 minutes? I’d say so. Wanna know how to bring this to your communities? DM me and let’s talk. #valuebasedcare #worksmarter #seniorliving

As a seasoned ER nurse I share these many frustrations and the moral distress that comes with not being able to provide adequate, timely and quality care to our patients. Understanding that many have tried to use other avenues to seek assistance only to have been turned to the ED, others are not educated as to alternative options and what truly is an emergency. Receiving patients angry and seeing the nurse as the barrier when others have told them “to go right away” for non-urgent issues. Others who are so sick and you cannot accommodate them timely. Government needs to include those frontline staff as key stakeholders. They live/see the actual barriers and have valuable real solutions to them.

Great article with valuable perspective.

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