Guiding At-Risk Patients: Navigating the Healthcare System ...€¦ · It is short! It is painless!...
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Guiding At-Risk Patients:
Navigating the Healthcare System,
Community and LifeMegan Phillips, LSW, MSW
Amy Radke, MSW, CSW
Sanford Health
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Objectives
• Understand the “why” behind the creation
of the Health Guide role
• Understand the role and functions of the
Health Guide
• Understand the Health Guide as a Care
Team Member
• Evaluation and Outcomes
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The Statistics
• Top 5 % of Americans made up 50% of US
Health Care Spending (Weissmann, 2012)
• 20% of the population uses 80% of health
care dollars (Kullgren, 2012)
• 70-80% of health outcomes are attributed
to environment and behavior (2013 University of Maryland
Report; University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute)
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You don’t have to talk!
It is short!
It is painless!
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Reality
• Most at risk patients will not come to us
• Most at risk patients have broken trust
• At risk patients don’t have a health
insider
• At risk patients suffer from disconnected
care
• At risk patients are discouraged by
unrealistic recommendations
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What is a Health Guide?
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Design Principles
• Craft care as an ongoing journey
• Help patients overcome shame
• Use data to inform high-touch care
• Building trusting relationships to improve
clinical outcomes
• Provide support anywhere, anytime
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Trustworthy Insider
• High-touch, high-frequency support
• Patient-centered support in navigating
healthcare system and community
resources
• Passion for health, wellness, and patient
advocacy
• Liaison between patient, healthcare
system, community
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Key Roles to Health Guide Model
• Bridge gaps between patient and health
system through coordination of care
• Assist in overcoming barriers to complex
healthcare needs
• Provide key education
• Provide regular in-person interaction
• Facilitate relationships with health system
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A Day-In-The Life of a Health
Guide
• Collaborating and coordinating care
• Making outreach to patients
• Joining patient visits
• Sharing of quality time
• Engageming with community resources
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The health guide walks alongside the patient to improve communication between members of healthcare team, to empower patient to have a voice in their own care, and to promote a trusting relationship with the patient and the system
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Strategies for effective use of
Health Guides
• Gain insight to available Sanford and
community resources
• Promote and clarify new role
• Develop relationships to expand on
referral sources
• Provide awareness to outcomes
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Health Guide as a Care Team
Member
• Patient and Family
• Primary Care
• Specialty Care
• Behavioral Health
• CommunityWellSpan Health
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Community Partnerships
• Transportation
• Employment
• Housing
• Food
• Financial
• Disability
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But honestly…
Each day is a new day…and a daily routine
is NOT the norm
Photo By: Brook Wallis Photo By: Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Plant
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Graduation: Self-Management
• Appropriate utilization of acute care
• Routine engagement with primary care
• Communication to care team
• Stabilization of chronic conditions
• Actively addressing behavioral and social
stressors
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Evaluation
• Key Metrics to align with guiding principles
• Understanding a “team effort”
• EMR Data: survey trends, interventions,
health care utilization
– Trust and Wellbeing Questionnaire
– Goal setting and attainment
– Social determinants of health connections
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Trust Questions
• I trust health care
• I feel heard when speaking with my care
team
• I feel that I am a partner in developing my
plan of care
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Wellbeing Questions
• How would you evaluate your current health and
wellbeing
• How would you rate your current energy level
• How would you rate your current mood
• Rate your levels of satisfaction with:
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Projected Outcomes
• Decrease acute care utilization
• Increase in primary utilization
• Decreased no show rates
• Increased patient satisfaction
• Increased community partnerships
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Overcoming Obstacles
• Identify the “right” patient
• Awareness and clarification of the role
• Building trust takes time
• Appropriate panel size
• Data and metrics
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The Wins Lie within the Stories…
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Questions?