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HealthTrust & Abbott present…”Improving Patient Outcomes & Decreasing Hospital Costs Through Nutrition”

Up to 50 percent of patients are malnourished upon admission to an acute care setting. This can impact clinical and financial performance measures throughout the patient journey, including lengths of stay, costs of care, mortality rates and readmissions. In this program,  KentuckyOne Health and CHI Memorial Health will share how their healthcare data assets were leveraged to implement a real-world Nutrition Quality Improvement Initiative (NQII) that included rapid identification of and intervention with malnourished patients by way of an electronic medical record, caregiver nutrition education and post-discharge nutrition care. With this initiative, the median time from patient hospital arrival, admission and Malnutrition Screening Tool (MST) to Oral Nutrition Supplements (ONS) initiation was reduced. There were also decreases in lengths of stay and readmission rates. After the NQII’s implementation, identification and diagnosis of patients with malnutrition increased from 3.14 to 6.84 percent (p<0.01).

Learning Objectives for member attendees:

At the end of this session, participants should be able to:

1. Describe the importance of a complex nutrition protocol and its impact on clinical quality outcomes, including morbidity, mortality and readmissions
2. Recall a process to implement, monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of a comprehensive malnutrition program
3. Explain how to lead an interdisciplinary team to promote best practices and implement strategies used to improve data collection and enhance reimbursement

Presenters:

Susan Fuchs, MBA, RD, LDN  |  clinical nutrition manager  |  CHI  Memorial Hospital & CHI Memorial Hixson

Amanda Goldman, MS, RD, LD, FAND  |  system director, Quality & Wellness  |  Catholic Health Initiatives, Food & Nutrition Services  | director of diabetes & nutrition care  | KentuckyOne Health

Sharon Siegel, RD, LD  |  system clinical nutrition manager, Louisville  | KentuckyOne Health

Target Audience: Nurses and Registered Dietitians

Continuing Education Information: 1.0 contact hours for nurses. Belmont University School of Nursing is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Tennessee Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. The activity will provide 1 hour (.1 CEUs) of continuing education credit to nurses who attend the webinar and complete the online evaluation. Catholic Health Initiatives is a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) accredited provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). Credentialed Practitioners CE approved for 1.0 Continuing Professional Education units (CPEUs) for completion of this activity/material.

Note: No group credit is available. HealthTrust’s CE credit provider requires that each participant register and join the actual webinar event individually.