When the administrator of a large skilled nursing facility approached Director of Clinical Care Coordination Dee Dee Seagraves, RN, MSN, at the Savannah, Ga.-based St. Joseph’s/Candler health system with questions about referral patterns, Seagraves was able to address his concerns, quickly and easily.
Case Studies
More than 4,600 hospitals and post-acute providers rely on the award-winning Web-based patient-transition software from Curaspan Health Group®. With a retention rate just shy of 100 percent, Curaspan helps deliver results, at the bedside and on the bottom line. Find out how in the following case studies.
Featured Case Studies
With Curaspan, IASIS Healthcare Cuts LOS by 40 Percent to Home Health, 17 Percent to SNFs
IASIS Healthcare, a Nashville, Tenn.-based owner and operator of 19 community hospitals, turned to Curaspan Health Group® to improve patient throughput at its four Arizona hospitals.
RideCentral® Streamlines Transport for Stellaris Health Network
Stellaris Health Network transport company Westchester Emergency Medical Services provides transportation each week for 200 patients, most of whom receive care from the health network's hospitals: Lawrence Hospital Center, Northern Westchester Hospital, Phelps Memorial Hospital Center and White Plains Hospital Center.
Samaritan Medical Center Improves Patient Flow, Eases ED Backup with Curaspan
At Samaritan Medical Center, a 287-bed hospital in Watertown, N.Y., locating a nursing home that could accept its patients was taking too long. Two skilled-nursing facilities in the area had recently closed, creating a bottleneck for discharge planners accustomed to referring patients to those facilities.
With Curaspan, Overlake Hospital Medical Center Doubles Provider Satisfaction Scores
At Overlake Hospital Medical Center, a 350-bed acute-care facility in Bellevue, Wash., improving relationships with its post-acute providers was a high priority.
Lancaster General Hospital Steps into Electronic Future With Easy Curaspan Implementation
With an initiative to move to electronic health records, the last thing the senior management team at Pennsylvania-based Lancaster General Hospital wanted was another project that ate up IT resources.
Curaspan Health Group Helps Sentara Leigh Increase Patient Satisfaction
Medical Care Manager Karen Ward-Lilly, RN, MPH, CCM, oversees 13 case managers and attributes much of her team's success to Curaspan. Patient satisfaction scores have improved each year over the last two years at Sentara Leigh Hospital in Norfolk, Va., a 250-bed facility that’s part of Sentara Healthcare, one of the top-ranked integrated health-care networks in the country.
With Curaspan, Indiana University Health Bloomington Cuts Readmissions, Prepares for ACO
Director of Case Management Kathryn Bennett, RN, had a significant objective for her department at Indiana University Health Bloomington: Reduce preventable readmissions. And she chose Curaspan Health Group to help her achieve that goal.
Riverside Health System Knocks Down IT Silos, Builds New Model of Care Facilitation
They're the Batman and Robin of health-system innovation. Melody Livengood, RN, MSN, RHS, director of care facilitation, and Dawn Kowalski, operations manager, are the dynamic duo behind a transformation in care facilitation at Riverside Health System (RHS). A transformation powered by Curaspan software as a service (SaaS).
Centra Health Uses RideCentral® to Get Nurses out of Transport
With a staff of five nurses and social workers, Tracey Jennings oversees all patient placements from acute-care settings to post-acute care for the numerous Centra Health facilities and programs in Central Virginia. It's a process with many moving parts that this director of centralized admissions made easier with RideCentral.
Avanté at Roanoke Ready for Referrals 7x24, with Curaspan
Executive Director Nathan Libassi, MPH, LNHA, oversees a staff of 130 at Avanté at Roanoke, a 130-bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility in Virginia, and wanted a better way to receive and manage patient referrals.
Senior Home Care Reduces Response Time By 32 Percent with ReferralCentral®
At Senior Home Care, one of the largest home-health agencies in the Southeast, Chief Operating Officer Lynne Hebert, RN, wanted to streamline communication between her account managers, branch staff and referring hospitals.
With Curaspan, Overlake Hospital Medical Center Doubles Provider Satisfaction Scores
At Overlake Hospital Medical Center, a 350-bed acute-care facility in Bellevue, Wash., improving relationships with its post-acute providers was a high priority.
Northeast Rehab Increases Referrals with ReferralCentral®
When Patricia Buiocchi, BSN, joined Northeast Rehabilitation Hospital Network, she was surprised to find liaison clinicians spending most of their day doing data-entry work as part of pre-admission screening.
Centra Health Uses RideCentral® to Get Nurses out of Transport
With a staff of five nurses and social workers, Tracey Jennings oversees all patient placements from acute-care settings to post-acute care for the numerous Centra Health facilities and programs in Central Virginia. It's a process with many moving parts that this director of centralized admissions made easier with RideCentral.
Access Ambulance Service Cuts Response Time in Half with Curaspan
When Maggie Siminausky was promoted to supervisor of customer service and client relations at Access Ambulance Service in Southwestern Connecticut, she knew she needed to change how her new team was coordinating non-emergent transportation with nearby hospitals.
RideCentral® Streamlines Transport for Stellaris Health Network
Stellaris Health Network transport company Westchester Emergency Medical Services provides transportation each week for 200 patients, most of whom receive care from the health network's hospitals: Lawrence Hospital Center, Northern Westchester Hospital, Phelps Memorial Hospital Center and White Plains Hospital Center.
Centra Health Uses RideCentral® to Get Nurses out of Transport
With a staff of five nurses and social workers, Tracey Jennings oversees all patient placements from acute-care settings to post-acute care for the numerous Centra Health facilities and programs in Central Virginia. It's a process with many moving parts that this director of centralized admissions made easier with RideCentral.
