Elderly Patient Coalition

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Elderly Patient Coalition

• A TMC HealthCare Community Project
• LDon Sawyer
• MA, Gerontology
• TMC Senior Services
• Ldon.sawyer_at_tmcaz.com

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History

• Strong leadership in Aging Service Collaborations
• Connection to Social Service Sector
• Community/Relationship Building

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Reasons for the Project

• Patient Discharge Concerns
• Unrealistic Expectations of the Acute Care
  Environment
• Educational Opportunity

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Why Collaborate?

• Community Support
• Community Needs
• Implement Projects Ideas that Stray from TMC
  Mission

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EPC Steering Committee

• Area Agency on Aging
• Elder Abuse Task Force
• Private Geriatric Case Management
• Social Services Case Management

• Pima Health System
• Community Services System
• Physician Group
• Long Term Care
• SNF
• Assisted Living
• Other Senior Housing

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Forums

• Roles Expectations in the Acute Care
  Environment
• The Hospitalist Physician Role
• Patients with Special Needs
• Role of Insurance Case Management
• Upcoming
• Molly Mettler, Healthwise, Inc
• Older Consumers Challenges for Providers

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Defining the Hospitalist Role Program Outline

• Defining a Hospitalist
• How do you define your role in a patients care?
• Who employs? What is the Peer Review Process?
• Case Studies Emergency and Direct Admit
• Interaction with PCP
• When and under what circumstances do you contact
  PCPs during the actual in-house episode
• Flow of Communication
• Role in Admit --- Role in Discharge
• What do you see as the Greatest Challenge within
  the Hospitalist System?

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Outcomes of the Coalition

• Forum surveys
• Wrap up sessions following events
• Action taken