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Optimizing The Assisted Living Experience: Integration Of Value-Based Care To Foster Augmented Resident-Centered Quality, Jennette Pietrzak Jan 2024

Optimizing The Assisted Living Experience: Integration Of Value-Based Care To Foster Augmented Resident-Centered Quality, Jennette Pietrzak

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Background: Fee-for-Service models are quantity-focused reactive approaches and have historically been at the forefront of healthcare. Value-based models focus on proactive, resident-centered care that is aimed at quality care over quantity. Implementation of ValueBased Care models can positively impact healthcare and fiscal outcomes

Purpose: The quality improvement project aimed to develop, integrate, and implement a valuebased model in Memory Care as an alternative to traditional Fee-for-Service models. The project aimed to improve key performance indicators by reducing hospitalizations, emergency room visits, and falls following the implementation of Value-Based Care (VBC) models.

Method: Data metrics for hospitalizations, emergency room visits, and …