High quality,
cost-efficient care solutions
Our managed care team is here to help.
Leading through expertise
“With healthcare evolving at such a rapid pace, Encompass Health is playing an important role in shaping the future of patient care in the post-acute setting, and most importantly, we’re improving the lives of our patients.
- Elissa Charbonneau, D.O., M.S. Chief Medical Offer, Encompass Health
At Encompass Health, we want the same thing you do—better outcomes for your patients, so they can get back to what matters most to them.
As the nation’s largest system of rehabilitation hospitals, we provide patients like yours with high-quality, cost-efficient care. Through our expertise, scale and advanced predictive algorithms, we’re taking innovative steps to improve patient outcomes and reduce readmission rates during and after a patient’s stay at one of our hospitals.
Successful clinical outcomes, driven by clinical knowledge
We provide high-quality, compassionate care designed to meet patients wherever they are in their recovery. Our experienced teams create custom care plans for every patient using advanced technologies and innovative therapies, while seamlessly connecting with other providers across the healthcare continuum.
As the nation's largest system of rehabilitation hospitals, we are the trusted choice of medical directors and set the standard in post-acute care. In June 2019, we had the lowest acute care transfer (ACT) rate and second highest discharge to the community rate in more than a decade.
There is a difference in the inpatient rehabilitation hospital you select for your patients and we would be proud to be your trusted partner in post-acute care. Together we will:
- Take time to care for every patient, always leading with empathy
- Use technology and data analysis to enhance patient care with comprehensive programs that lead to fewer hospital readmissions
- Collaborate with acute care hospitals to deliver care that results in greater value and superior outcomes for both our patients and our partners in care
- Offer access to inpatient rehabilitation hospitals as well as home health and hospice agencies across the U.S.
Meeting the needs of healthcare leaders
We understand that healthcare leaders are tasked with improving patient outcomes in a cost-efficient manner. That's why Encompass Health hospitals offer data-driven, innovative solutions to improve the quality of care, reduce hospital readmissions and help drive down the overall cost of care.
Encompass Health’s patient-focused approach leads to quality clinical results:
- Readmission rates are half of the average skilled nursing facility—more than $32,000 for every readmission after stroke.
- Our average discharge rate to community is 80.8% compared to 39.4% at a skilled nursing facility's—over twice as many of our patients qualified to return home after hip fracture.
- The average length of stay in a rehabilitation hospital after hip fracture is 13 days compared to 36 days at a skilled nursing facility.
Published research also makes it clear—inpatient rehabilitation facilities offer a higher level of care and reduce readmission rates and costs in the long-term. In a first-of-its-kind study, the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) showed that physical therapy and occupational therapy provide functional benefits to most patients in post-acute care settings, with evidence of significant rehabilitative value across 1.4 million Medicare cases. And peer reviewed data show that IRFs are the preferred setting for post-acute treatment, including treating hip fractures and hip replacements, stroke and brain injury.
ReACT reduces readmissions
At Encompass Health, we’ve developed and implemented a proprietary, evidence-based clinical initiative to reduce readmissions and improve patient outcomes. In partnership with Cerner, our first predictive model, ReACT, was launched in 2017. ReACT is seamlessly integrated into the clinician workflow and the patient electronic health record (EHR) to identify the risk of an acute care transfer (ACT) in order to prompt clinicians to intervene and adjust the plan of care accordingly.
The ReACT dashboard displays a patient’s ACT risk levels throughout their stay in near real time. The clinical team reviews the dashboard in daily huddles and when rounding. This practice helps focus communication and customize treatment planning and additional assessments, especially for high-risk patients.
Fall prevention and
assessment in post-acute care
No matter what the setting of care, falls present a serious risk to patients and can cause a setback in their recovery. The Joint Commission reports the average increase in a hospital’s operational costs for a serious fall-related injury is more than $13,000, and the average increase in length of stay is about six days. That’s why developing a fall predictive model specific to the rehabilitation setting of care became our latest priority.
Using 400,000 electronic medical records from past Encompass Health patients, this new predictive model identified 54 clinical features that increase a patient’s risk of falling in the inpatient rehabilitation setting. These risk factors include medications, diagnosis, physical and cognitive function and vital signs, to name a few.
The model is now running in all Encompass Health rehabilitation hospitals and begins at admission.
Learn more about Encompass Health’s fall risk predictive model that is specific to post-acute care and our patients.