Enhanced hospice solution supports unique inpatient documentation requirements
Murray, UT, 28/9/2010 – Ridgeview Medical Center, an independent, nonprofit, regional health care network located just 35 minutes west of Minneapolis, Minnesota, recently implemented Progresa Health Systems for its new residential hospice, the Marie Steiner Kelting Hospice Home located in Chaska, MN. Ridgeview is the first Progresa customer to use the system for a hospice residence, providing comprehensive patient management for the hospice team. Ridgeview's Hospice Home is Medicare certified to provide general inpatient care.
Dedicated to providing compassionate care for patients and their families at the end of life, Ridgeview relies on Progresa to facilitate the process of documentation for the caregivers so they can focus more time on improving their patients’ quality of life.
“Rolling out Progresa to our Hospice Home was a logical step,” says Lisa Hurt, Director, Home Care and Hospice at Ridgeview Medical Center, “With the solution already in place for our Home Health and Hospice teams, we had a clear understanding of how it would automate our processes and ensure consistent completion of documentation in the patient’s room with minimal training. Today, our clinicians find that access to clear, accurate patient data – care plans, demographics and medications – as well as decision support tools, help improve patient safety. Ridgeview Hospice and our Hospice Home have especially valued the new Interdisciplinary Group Note documentation feature. ”
Designed to support the shift-based requirements of a Hospice Home, Progresa provides a multi-disciplinary approach to documentation and the coordination of care.
In the last year, Progresa has asked its Hospice clients to become active contributors in the development of the hospice solution. The result of this consultative approach has been the release of:
- An Interdisciplinary Group Note, including ESAS Measures, which provides a single, easy, regulation-compliant location to create IDG documentation.
- A Bereavement Care Plan that tracks the needs of individual family members during and after the primary patient's care episode to improve responsiveness.
- QAPI Reports with built-in ESAS measures that allow for easy monitoring of the quality of care delivered.
About Ridgeview Medical Center
Ridgeview Medical Center is an independent, nonprofit, regional
health care network located just 35 minutes west of Minneapolis
on Highway 5. Its network includes the Waconia-based acute care
hospital, a multitude of primary and specialty care clinics,
emergency services and specialty programs.
The 109-bed hospital, associated clinics and physicians have a well-earned reputation for clinical excellence and extraordinary service. Patients say that the Ridgeview experience is decidedly different from what they encounter at other health care facilities.
Each year, Ridgeview serves a population of 300,000 people, primarily from its five-county service area of Carver, northern Sibley, southern Wright, western Hennepin and eastern McLeod. Ridgeview is one of the largest employers in Carver County, with over 1,300 employees. It also has 450 volunteers.
For more about Ridgeview Medical Center, visit www.ridgeviewmedical.org.
About Progresa Health Systems
Progresa Health Systems helps to ensure that organizations have
the quality of data that they need to comply with regulations,
improve the quality of patient care, and manage resources effectively.
Our professional staff includes registered nurses and certified
project managers and certified trainers with extensive experience
in the homecare industry. Our clients include certified home
health agencies, hospice, and private-duty agencies, many with
multiple provider numbers and branches. Headquartered in Salt
Lake City, Utah, Progresa Health Systems (formerly 3M HHS/Procura
HHS) is a member of the Procura family.
