As part of its care transitions process to eliminate avoidable readmissions, minimize length of stay and boost the patient experience, South Nassau Communities Hospital has enlisted the help of RightCare
RightCare’s full suite of software will be used by South Nassau’s case managers to better meet the individual care needs of patients through a unique, modular software solution that is designed to assess patient risk at the time of admission, ensure the appropriate care plan is in place and seamlessly transition patient information to post-acute care providers. Deeper integration with post-acute care partners furthers South Nassau’s commitment to offering patients an individualized approach to coordinated, quality healthcare.
As part a Performing Provider System (PPS) within New York’s Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program, South Nassau can also utilize RightCare to satisfy requirements for DSRIP projects including:
- An integrated delivery system
- A care transitions intervention for skilled nursing facility residents
“We treat our patients like family, and we go to great lengths to ensure that we offer the highest quality of care,” said Bill Allison, senior vice president, health policy and planning at South Nassau Communities Hospital. “The individualized approach that RightCare offers helps us to further improve outcomes, while also helping case managers streamline care coordination for increased efficiency. This, coupled with DSRIP requirements that RightCare helps us to achieve, made our decision to utilize their software simple.”
“Our goal is to provide a comprehensive, patient-centered approach by providing case managers the information required to develop individualized care plans for patients. By asking the right questions at the time of admission, we can help predict patient needs throughout the care continuum and determine the most appropriate level of post-acute care,” said Eric Heil, CEO of RightCare. “Our technology, which is used in hospitals across the nation, has made significant strides in helping hospitals reduce costs while improving the quality of the care they provide. We are enthusiastic about working with a hospital that shares our same mission and understands the impact optimized care transitions can have on improving outcomes.”
RightCare is a medical technology company built on one fundamental goal: helping providers improve the continuum of care. It’s the only medical software focused on healthcare transitions using a unique algorithm based on 10 years of clinical and academic research that enables continuous point-of-care decision support, optimizes workflow, and dramatically improves post-acute care transitions.
About South Nassau Communities Hospital
Designated a Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), South Nassau® Communities Hospital is one of the region’s largest hospitals, with 455 beds, more than 900 physicians and 3,000 employees. Located in Oceanside, NY, the hospital is an acute-care, not-for-profit teaching hospital that provides state-of-the-art care in cardiac, oncologic, orthopedic, bariatric, pain management, maternity, mental health and emergency services. In addition to its extensive outpatient specialty centers, South Nassau provides emergency and elective angioplasty, and is the only hospital on Long Island with the Novalis Tx™ and Gamma Knife® radiosurgery technologies. South Nassau is a designated Stroke Center by the New York State Department of Health and Comprehensive Community Cancer Center by the American College of Surgeons and is an accredited center of the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Association and Quality Improvement Program. In addition, the hospital has been awarded the Joint Commission’s gold seal of approval as a Top Performer on Key Quality Measures, including heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care; and disease-specific care for hip and joint replacement, wound care and end-stage renal disease. For more information, call Damian Becker in South Nassau Communities Hospital’s External Affairs Office, at (516) 377-5370.
About RightCare
RightCare is a pioneering Philadelphia, PA-based medical technology company that helps hospitals and health systems reduce readmissions and optimize post-acute care delivery. RightCare’s software assesses risk and needs for all patients at admission, recommends the right level of post-acute care and applicable community-based services, and seamlessly refers and transitions critical information to the selected post-acute care providers. The company’s proprietary technology, Discharge Decision Support System (D2S2), which was developed through a decade of research conducted at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, provides the most academic, innovative and predictive software for risk stratifying any patient at admission and utilizes evidence-based technology to optimize care transitions. It is the only medical software focused on healthcare transitions using a unique algorithm that enables continuous point-of-care decision support, optimizes workflow, and dramatically improves post-acute care transitions. For more information, please visit www.RightCareSolutions.com or follow-us on Twitter at @TeamRightCare to find out more.
