Title: 200810 HAPSHSAA Developmental Indicators: HospitalCCAC Integration
1- 2008-10 HAPS/HSAA Developmental Indicators
Hospital-CCAC Integration
Gavin Wardle, Consultant to JPPC Don Ford,
Executive Director, Central East CCAC August 2007
2Overview
- This e-learning session covers developmental
hospital-CCAC system integration indicators in
2008-10 Hospital Annual Planning Submission
(HAPS) Guidelines and Web-Enabled Reporting
System (WERS) - Aimed at hospital and LHIN staff involved in the
preparation and review of HAPS CCAC staff - Updated and expanded as needed
3Outline
- Context for Developmental Hospital-CCAC
Integration Indicators - Proposed Indicators
- Specification
- LHIN Level Results
- Interpretation and Caveats
- Next Steps
42008-10 HAPS/HSAA Indicators Domains
Training Development
Financial Health
Organizational Health
Capital Health IT/Med Equipment
Turnover Rate
Paid Sick Time (Full-time)
Operational Efficiency
Vacancy Rate
Paid Overtime (Full-time Part-Time)
Capital Health Facility Condition Index
Nursing FTE
Current Ratio Consolidated
Staff Satisfaction
Total Margin Sector Code 1
Workplace Safety Indicators
Total Margin Consolidated
Readmissions to Own Facility
Readmissions (All Facilities CHF Only)
CCC Skin Ulcers
Mental Health
CCC Index Indicators
ALC Indicators
Volumes
Rehab Indicators
ED Indicators
Stroke Care Index Indicators
Patient Safety
Hospital-CCAC Integration Indicators
System Integration
Patient Access Outcomes
HSMR
Adult IP Sat Indicators
ED Sat Indicators
Paediatric Sat Indicators
Patient Experience
5Recall 07/08 System Integration Indicators
6Focus of System Integration Indicators
- Main issue Post-acute transition
- Two sub-issues
- Post-Acute care continued inpatient acute
hospital care for patients with post-acute
healthcare needs - Safe handoff to community-based care patients
with (complex) chronic disease at high risk for
readmission (mortality) in the immediate
post-hospitalization period
7Definition of System Integration
- Health system integration refers to the extent
to which health services are received as part of
a coordinated and uninterrupted succession of
events consistent with the medical needs of
patients
8Policy Context
- 2000 First Ministers call home care a critical
component of a fully integrated health system - 2002 Kirby report calls for public coverage of
PAHC - 2002 Romanow report calls for expansion of
Canada - Health Act to include PAHC
- 2003 First Ministers identify home care as one
of three - priority areas to be funded under the
Health Reform Fund - Short-term acute home care and end-of-life care
home care
9Policy Context (contd)
- Home care has also been ongoing focus of Ontario
government and ministry initiatives. For
example - Increases in funding for CCACs
- Targeted for acute home care, end-of-life care,
and chronic home care services - LHINs
- home care is a key element in the ongoing
transformation to a more community-based system
of care
10Evidentiary Basis Literature Review
- Focused interventions
- Dramatic results with focused supportive
post-discharge manoeuvres for high-risk
populations - Home-Based Interventions
- Early supported discharge
- RCT evidence
- Multiple disease states
- These interventions are generally studied vs. a
usual care home care control
11Empirical Basis Analysis of Ontario Data
- Usual care home care vs. no formal home-care
- Confounding of home care referral as risk marker
for worse health status and protective effect of
home care services - The marker of Home Care Referral is a strong
indicator of readmission risk - Patients Referred to Home Care have longer
inpatient lengths of stay - Early (within 3 days) nursing Home Care is
associated with lower readmission risk for some
cohorts (e.g. CHF, COPD) - Additional nursing visits within the first week
are associated with additional decrease in risk
12Risk of Readmission Profile for Selected
Conditions
13Developmental Hospital CCAC Indicators
- Focus on Post-Acute transition
- Safe handoff from acute to community-based care
of patients with chronic disease at high risk for
readmission in the immediate post-hospitalization
period - Theoretical Basis
- Timely home care services can improve the safety
of hospital-home transition for high risk
patients - Focus on cohort of hospital patients at high risk
of readmission - Focus on delivery (receipt) of post-acute home
care services in the immediate post-hospitalizatio
n period
14Validity of DAD Referral Flag Time to First Visit
15Data
- Focusing on linking Hospital and Home Care data
sets using unique patient IDs - DAD and Home Care Client Database
- Linked data facilitates
- Testing of the concordance of hospital referral
flags with reported home care services - Measuring the intensity and type of home care
services - Measuring the timeliness of the first post-acute
home care visit - Investigating the protective effect of home care
- All indicators presented at the facility
(hospital) and LHIN levels
16Home Care Activity by Clinical Cohort (Groupings
of High Risk of Readmission CMG)
Provincial average attainment of nursing home
care 12
Population of interest for Integration indicators
are the cohorts with higher than average
attainment of nursing home care AMI, CHF, COPD,
DM, CVA, PNEU
17Home Care Activity by CMG (indicator cohort)
18Proposed Developmental Indicators
- Receipt of first nursing home care visit within 3
days of discharge - low attainment of post-acute home care may
indicate poor coordination and integration of
patient care - Time to first nursing home-care visit post
hospital discharge - hospitals have some responsibility to ensure that
referrals are executed in a timely fashion - Frequency of nursing home care visits in
post-acute period - number of days on which at least one nursing
visit occurs appears to be associated with better
readmission outcome - Proportion of DAD-coded referrals who receive
first home care visit - hospitals with high false positive rates should
work with CCACs to ensure that referrals get
executed and should focus on accurate recording
of referrals to home care
19Universal Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria
- Exclusion Deaths, Transfers, Sign-outs
- Inclusion Discharged to home or home care using
Discharge Disposition (04,05) - Exclusion All discharges from March 2006 because
of lack of Home Care data for April 2006 - Exclusion Same day readmissions
- Potential uncoded transfer or no opportunity for
home care to execute referral - Out of hospital deaths within 3 days of discharge
recorded in the Home Care Client Database
20Indicator 1 Receipt of first nursing home care
visit within 3 days of discharge
- Timely visit defined as within 3 days of
discharge - Exclusion if death recorded in HCD and death
occurred within - 3 days of discharge
- Probability of Timely HC cohort, age, risk of
readmission - By design, the number of observed timely nursing
visits is - equal to the expected number of timely visits at
the provincial level - This was required because of uncertainly around
need for timely nursing visit - alternative is to compare to absolute standard of
(e.g. 100) - Results flag variation in likelihood of timely
visit across hospitals/LHINs and not variation
from a gold standard or what may have been
required clinically
21Indicator 1 Results by LHINReceipt of first
nursing home care visit within 3 days of discharge
22Indicator 2 Time to first nursing Home-Care
Visit Post Hospital Discharge
- Include only those patients who received a
nursing visit within 30 days of discharge - Calculate mean number of days to first visit by
facility - Calculate 90th percentile days to first visit
- of post-acute nursing recipients, 90 of patients
receive first visit by this day - No adjustments made for case-mix
23Indicator 2 Results by LHINMean and 90th
Percentile Time to First Nursing Visit among
patient who received at least one nursing visit
within 30 days of discharge
24Indicator 3 Frequency of Nursing Home Care
Visits in Post-Acute Period
- Recall that Frequency is measured as number of
days on which at least one nursing visit was
received - Frequency cohort, age, risk of readmission
- Calculate actual and expected frequency at 14
days and 30 days - As with indicator 1, these indicators assess
variation from provincial mean frequency rather
than comparison to clinical standard - Include only patients who received a post-acute
nursing visit within 30 days of discharge
25Indicator 3 Results by LHINFrequency of Visit
within 14 and 30 days of discharge
26Indicator 4 Proportion of DAD-coded Referrals
who Receive First Home Care Visit
- Proportion of DAD-coded referrals who receive
- timely first home care visit
- Still consider only the high risk of readmission
cohort - Difference from previous measures is that all
types - of home care visits are included
- This is primarily a data quality indicator to
assess the - validity of the referral to home care flags in
the - hospital data
- Include only patients with referral to home care
flags - in DAD and count number who receive a home care
- visit within 30 days.
27Indicator 4 Results by LHINProportion of
Referred Cases Receiving any HC Visit within 30
Days of Discharge
28Expert and Stakeholder Review Process
- JPPC convened a multi-stakeholder Expert Panel
and sought the input of representatives from the
CCACS - Both groups recommended that the proposed
indicators be included in the agreements as
developmental indicators - This recommendation was primarily based on the
notion that the proposed indicators represented a
starting point for the measurement of
hospital-CCAC integration - Sole purpose of the indicators at this point is
to prompt dialogue and collaboration between
hospitals, CCACs, and the Ministry - Indicators are new and untested in the field and
must be interpreted with caution the indicators
should not be used to assess performance, or to
induce changes in the delivery of care without
additional careful investigation
29Expert and Stakeholder Review Process (contd)
- Despite recommending the inclusion of the
indicators in the agreements, the Expert Panel
and Stakeholders identified four concerns with
the indicators - Limited ability of hospitals to independently
influence the outcome of the proposed indicators - Relatively narrow focus of the proposed measures
- Focus relates to a narrow conceptualization of
integration - Relevance of some of the CMG in the high risk of
readmission cohort - Addressed by focusing readmission cohort to be
more relevant to home care - Potential perverse consequences due to incentives
associated with the proposed indicators
30Recommendations for Ongoing Development Work
- Panel pointed to priorities for future work
- Consider a second cohort based on highest
receivers of home care and assess efficacy (e.g.
shortened hospital LOS, reduced hospital cost) - Investigate measuring hospital-CCAC integration
through early discharge planning (in-hospital
assessments) - Develop counter-balancing measures to
monitor/mitigate unintended consequences of
incentives associated with the proposed set of
indicators (dilution of services, shifting of
resource allocation) - Need to consider integration on the pre-acute
phase (e.g. avoidable admissions, ED use)
31More Information
- See Proposed Developmental Indicators of
Hospital-CCAC Integration for the 2008-10
Hospital Service Accountability Agreement
Process Report of the JPPC System Integration
Virtual Team and Hospital-CCAC Expert Panel (June
2007) on www.jppc.org for more information on
these indicators. - Other e-learning sessions and background
materials in this series are posted on
www.oha.com, with links on WERS, FIM, LHIN and
JPPC websites - If you have questions, please contact your local
LHIN www.lhins.on.ca
32We Welcome Your Feedback
- For more information on this e-learning series or
other initiatives of the LHIN-JPPC Communication
Education Work Group please contact - Mimi Lowi-Young, Chair
- c/o Ontario Joint Policy and Planning Committee
(JPPC) - 415 Yonge Street, Suite 1200
- Toronto, ON M5B 2E7
- Tel 416-599-5772 Fax 416-599-6630
- www.jppc.org