The new PDPM Impact Report is here. The latest IntelliLogix™ update is designed to allow skilled nursing facilities to see the financial impact realized from MDS Scrubber utilization for PPS assessments. It also allows the user to drill down into specific facilities and resident detail highlighting resident characteristics and alert changes.

Since 2016, we’ve been measuring client satisfaction using a Customer Thermometer, receiving over 20,000 survey ratings and nearly 5,000 comments in that timespan. Our goal is to maintain a Net Promoter Score (NPS, a measure of customer satisfaction) of 90 or more from our customers.

SHP is excited to be supporting the National Healthcare at Home 2021 Best Practices and Future Insights Study. Expected to be the most comprehensive study on the delivery of care at home to date, results will include best practices on the topics of staffing, reimbursement, new care delivery models, palliative care, and more. In order for the study to succeed we need your participation!

To further enhance our role as a data analytics partner for post-acute care organizations, SHP is proud to announce its acquisition of Team TSI. Team TSI is a leader in data analytics solutions for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) that has been in business for 30+ years.

Congratulations to Pat Newberry—Vice President-Clinical Services and Dahlia Kroth—Vice President-Strategic Relations for their renewal and appointment to continue serving as AHCA Quality Examiners.

Contract therapy service provider RehabCare today announced it will begin offering clients Team TSI’s (now SHP's) MDS Scrubber Module. The MDS Scrubber allows RehabCare’s clients to not only reduce their MDS rejection rate, but also reduce inconsistencies in coding, assist in the transition from Resource Utilization Groups (RUG) to Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM), optimize their ICD-10 coding practices, improve financial optimization, be aware of potential adverse events and have a proactive view of potential clinical-related risk areas.

With the growing implementation of PDPM, Team TSI (now SHP) welcomes Greg Seiple as Vice President, Informatics. He is a powerful new weapon in our arsenal of industry experts. Greg has extensive experience with HCR ManorCare, Guardian and CareOne. As a registered nurse, Greg has wide-ranging proficiency on the clinical side of facility operations, which is augmented by his knowledge of clinical services. This hands-on experience is key to his 27 years of leadership in long-term care. Empowering teams throughout the industry, Greg adds his powerful voice to the analytical insight Team TSI (now SHP) provides.

We are pleased to welcome Columbine Health Systems as one of our first SNF customers. We look forward to working together to help Columbine optimize its resources under PDPM, improve readmissions, outcomes and relationship with referring entities.

Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP), a leading provider of post-acute data and analytics, has expanded its portfolio of products by introducing the SHP for Skilled Nursing℠ software solution. The Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM) and a continued focus on cost and quality has enhanced the need for real-time data in the SNF setting. This new automatic, real-time reporting suite enables SNFs to better manage and improve readmissions, referrals, and outcomes so they can succeed under PDPM.

As the industry’s leader in data analytics and focused solutions, Team TSI (now SHP) is excited to announce our strategic partnership alliance with Twinmed, one of the largest full-line medical supply distributors within the healthcare industry.

Furthering our commitment and dedication to being Data Focused, Customer Driven, Team TSI (now SHP) is proud to announce a new strategic partnership with Pioneer Technology, a top-tier managed IT services provider committed to providing a consistent and repeatable framework for nursing home IT.

SHP is pleased to announce Brightree recently incorporated our OASIS Integrated Alerting functionality into their iPad point-of-care app. This enhancement gives our joint customers the tools they need to improve speed and efficiency, while continuously providing high-quality care to patients.

Amedisys has been steadily expanding their breadth of care into markets across the continuum. Part of the company’s strategy of adding personal care services to improve care involves enhancing overall capabilities through new technologies. In 2016 Amedisys announced it would partner with Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) to help achieve this goal.

The partnership between NHIA and SHP supports the association’s longstanding Data Initiative effort created to collect and report patient outcomes data in a standardized manner and to provide the industry with the tools needed to establish national benchmarks for home infusion quality. Utilizing its web-based, automated, real-time data solution for home infusion pharmacies, SHP will work with NHIA to collect, aggregate, and report data from any eligible provider that can be used to establish future national standards for the field.

Republished with permission from Decision Health. Article originally published on Home Health Line October 16, 2016. Whether they’re discussing QAPI, 5-star ratings or rehospitalization rates in general, more and more agencies are showcasing their quality of care when they market to referral sources, a new HHL survey shows.

Brightree LLC, a leading provider of cloud-based software, and Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP), a leading provider of data analytics and benchmarking to post-acute care providers, have released Integrated Alerting to further enhance the existing interface between two companies.

After seeing promising preliminary results, our customer Amedisys is expanding a pilot program that aims to lower overall costs through fewer readmissions. The outcomes from the pilot and future results from the program will be evaluated against Strategic Healthcare Programs' (SHP) benchmark data on 3 metrics: hospital readmission rates, functional status of the patient and shortness of breath.

SHP has released its new Home Infusion Pharmacy solution. This innovative product replaces SHP’s first generation reporting suite to bring real-time, interactive reports to home infusion pharmacies to help home infusion pharmacies improve quality and performance.

"We are proud to support Amedisys in its commitment to provide the best possible quality of care for its patients," said Rob Paulsson, SHP President.

Republished with permission from Decision Health. Article originally published on Home Health Line January 11, 2016. The list of quality measures for home health CMS may ultimately use to help determine payments to agencies just grew six measures longer.

In the latest issue of Home Health Line (1/18/2016), Lynette Godhard, director of clinical operations, chief privacy and organizational integrity officer for Adventist Home Health in Silver Spring, Md., discusses the agency plans for this year.

By configuring our product in the new ICD-10 coding environment, we hope that our customers can continue to deliver the best clinical outcomes and get properly reimbursed for their hard work.

Home Health Line publishes article using SHP's new survey results from 15,000 surveys and over 1,000 providers.

I am honored to join a successful company and a highly talented team that has been built over many years of developing solutions and delivering value to our customers

Home Health Line publishes article using SHP preliminary CAHPS® Hospice data.

Home Health Line publishes article using SHP's Hospice HIS data

Clients using the Delta Crescendo software now have access to a new style of SHP interface!

SHP is an approved CAHPS® Vendor and began providing survey administration for early adopters on September 1, 2014.

Long-time SHP client National HealthCare Corporation (NHC), has been named by Forbes magazine as one of the 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in America.

Strategic Healthcare Programs, (SHP) a national healthcare data analytics and benchmarking company, has named Christopher M. Attaya its Vice President of Business Intelligence.

Clients of HCHB now have access to a new style of SHP interface where both transmission of data and retrieval of all SHP alerts takes place directly within the HCHB application.

Software vendors within and outside healthcare have long recognized the importance of partnering with software solutions that meet their clients’ expanding needs. One of the key components the current and prospective clients of software vendors look for in evaluating a system is the existence of interfaces with other solutions. Vendors that commit to ensuring their clients have access to tools that meet their existing needs and will carry them into the future show vision and are the ones worthy of consideration.

Any vendor you send protected health information to must be able to prove that they are worthy of your trust.

The interface will soon provide a similar seamless transmission of patient information used by SHP to survey families about their satisfaction with the hospice and bereavement services they received.

Delta hospice clients now have access to a seamless, automated connection that eliminates both manual data entry and file upload.

Robin Dowell, Office of Clinical Standards at CMS, responded to our letter asking for guidance on the fall risk assessment dilemma this morning.

Managers and executives can determine the impact of telemonitoring on hospitalization rates, Home Health Compare outcomes and a host of other metrics.

With the new interactive staff Overview and Scorecard reports no piece of information remains a mystery.

Shared clients can intelligently manage financial data, staff performance, clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction (HHCAHPS), CMS Home Health Compare scores and home care benchmarks – all from one dashboard.