- St. John’s Health System
Saturday, 2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
An Integrated Approach to Heart Failure Care
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When St. John’s Health System (SJHS) was selected as one of ten sites in the nation to participate in the Physician Group Practice (PGP) Demonstration Project, they accepted the goals of the project to promote efficiency and improve quality of health care provided to the patients they serve across the full continuum of care. SJHS identified heart failure patients as the population on which to focus strategies to improve coordination of care and reduce hospital readmissions. An integrated approach to collaboration and coordination of hospital and ambulatory heart failure services resulted in a reduction in heart failure admission and readmissions, and served as a model for managing patients with other chronic conditions.
