Health Care Innovation Awards: Virginia
Notes and Disclaimers:
- Projects shown may also be operating in other states (see the Geographic Reach)
- Descriptions and project data (e.g. gross savings estimates, population served, etc.) are 3 year estimates provided by each organization and are based on budget submissions required by the Health Care Innovation Awards application process.
- While all projects are expected to produce cost savings beyond the 3 year grant award, some may not achieve net cost savings until after the initial 3-year period due to start-up-costs, change in care patterns and intervention effect on health status.
CARILION NEW RIVER VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER
Project Title: “Improving health for at-risk rural patients (IHARP) in 23 southwest Virginia counties through a collaborative pharmacist practice model”
Geographic Reach: Virginia
Funding Amount: $4,162,618
Estimated 3-Year Savings: $4,308,295
Summary: Carilion New River Valley Medical Center, in partnership with Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy, Aetna Healthcare and CVS/Caremark, is receiving an award to improve medication therapy management for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries and other patients in 23 underserved rural counties in southwest Virginia. Their care delivery model, involving six rural hospitals and 17 primary care practices, will train pharmacists in transformative care and chronic disease management protocols. Through care coordination and shared access to electronic medical records, the project will enable pharmacists to participate in improving medication adherence and management, resulting in better health, reduced hospitalizations and emergency room visits, and fewer adverse drug events for patients with multiple chronic diseases.
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Project Title: “Using Telemedicine in peritoneal dialysis to improve patient adherence and outcomes while reducing overall costs”
Geographic Reach: District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia
Funding Amount: $1,939,127
Estimated 3-Year Savings: $1.7 million
Summary: George Washington University is receiving an award to improve care for about 300 patients on peritoneal dialysis in Washington, D.C., and eventually in Philadelphia and Southern Maryland. The intervention will use telemedicine to offer real-time, continuous, and interactive health monitoring to improve patient safety and treatment. The model will train a dialysis nurse workforce in prevention, care coordination, team-based care, telemedicine, and the use of remote patient data to guide treatment for co-morbid, complex patients. This approach is expected to improve patient access to care, adherence to treatment, self-management, and health outcomes, reducing cost of care for peritoneal dialysis patients with complex health care needs by reducing overall hospitalization days with estimated savings of approximately $1.7 million. Over the three-year period, George Washington University’s program will train an estimated three health care workers and create an estimated three new jobs. These workers will provide clinical support and health monitoring via the web to home dialysis patients.
THE RECTOR AND VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Project Title: “Proactive Palliative Care and Palliative Radiation Model”
Geographic Reach: Virginia
Funding Amount: $2,571,322
Estimated 3-Year Savings: $2,920,639
Summary: The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia is receiving an award to improve care for patients with advanced cancer. The program will integrate data from multiple sources to help providers proactively identify opportunities for evidence-based care interventions that have been shown to improve quality of care, increase survival, and reduce costs. In addition to various aspects of care, the program includes a specific redesign of radiation therapy to provide highly effective single-day treatment for cancer that has spread to the bone. By limiting unnecessary travel for frequent radiation treatments and delivering more rapid radiation therapy to reduce tumor size this initiative is expected to decrease complications from metastatic disease. Over a three-year period, Rector and Visitors’ program will train an estimated 65 workers and create three new jobs to support this project.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER
Project Title: "Brookdale Senior Living (BSL) Transitions of Care Program"
Geographic Reach: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin
Funding Amount: $7,329,714
Estimated 3-Year Savings: $9,729,702
Summary: The University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC), in partnership with Brookdale Senior Living (BSL), is receiving an award to expand and test the BSL Transitions of Care Program which is based on an evidenced-based assessment tool called Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers (INTERACT) for residents living in independent living, assisted living and dementia specific facilities in Texas and Florida. In addition, community dwelling older adults who receive BSL home health services will be included in the Transitions of Care Program. Over the course of the award the program will expand to other states where BSL communities are located. The program will employ clinical nurse leaders (CNLs) to act as program managers. CNLs will train care transition nurses and other staff on the use of INTERACT and health information technology resources to help them identify, assess, and manage residents' clinical conditions to reduce preventable hospital admissions and readmissions. The goal of the program is to prevent the progress of disease, thereby reducing complications, improving care, and reducing the rate of avoidable hospital admissions for older adults.
Over a three-year period, the University of North Texas Health Science Center's program will train an estimated 10,926 workers and create an estimated 97 jobs for clinical nurse leaders and other health care team members.