DENVER, Dec. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- DaVita Inc.
(NYSE: DVA), a leading independent medical group and a leading
provider of kidney care services in the United States, today released a recap of major
accomplishments for the company in 2016, marking its
16th year bringing quality of life to patients and
teammates around the world.
"Our relentless focus on quality patient care, creating a
special place for teammates and giving back to local communities
has yielded a year of milestones we can be proud of," said
Kent Thiry, chairman and CEO of
DaVita. "I'm honored to work with teammates who bring
intentionality to caring for others as we strive to help our
patients live their highest quality of life."
Major 2016 highlights include:
- Enhanced clinical quality as a leader in the federal
government's Five-Star Quality Rating system for kidney care and
CAPG's Standards of Excellence awards for HealthCare Partners
(HCP), a DaVita® Medical Group, in California, Washington and Colorado.
- Expanded globally capitated care in key areas, including
VillageHealth's population health division and with HCP's
acquisition of The Everett Clinic in Washington.
- Continued growth in international markets such as Saudi Arabia and Germany, market entry in Brazil and a joint venture partnership with
Khazanah and Mitsui to expand kidney care in Asia Pacific.
- Maintained a differentiated workplace as recognized by awards
in various cities and acknowledgment by FORTUNE®
Magazine as one of the World's Most Admired Companies for the
10th time.
Clinical Leadership
DaVita Outperforms the Rest of the Industry in Quality –
For the third consecutive year, DaVita outperformed the rest of the
industry under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services'
(CMS) Five-Star Quality Rating system with the highest percentage
of centers rated with four or five stars. DaVita also led in CMS'
ESRD Quality Incentive Program (QIP) for the third year in a row,
with the most dialysis centers ranking in the top clinical
performance tier.
FluidWise® Program Helps Dialysis Patients
Maintain Target Weight – FluidWise, DaVita's fluid management
program, aims to reduce fluid-related hospitalizations – the main
reason for dialysis patients' hospital admissions. Since 2013,
DaVita has seen a more than 14 percent reduction in the number of
patients with frequent excessive interdialytic weight gain.
WipeOut Infections® Program Helps Prevent
Infections for Dialysis Patients – WipeOut Infections, DaVita's
surveillance, prevention and response program, aims to help
patients live longer and avoid infection-related hospitalizations.
DaVita leads the industry with more than 90 percent of its dialysis
patients immunized for influenza in 2016.
CAPG Standards of Excellence Elite Status – CAPG awarded
HealthCare Partners in California
and The Everett Clinic in Washington its Standards of Excellence Elite
Award. Colorado Springs Health Partners received a Standards of
Excellence Exemplary Award. Standards of Excellence awards are
achieved by surpassing rigorous, peer-defined benchmarks in the
survey categories: Care Management Practices, Information
Technology, Accountability and Transparency, Patient-Centered Care,
Group Support of Advanced Primary Care, and Administrative and
Financial Capability.
HealthCare Partners Reduces Hospitalization for Patients
– HealthCare Partners patients had a 20 percent better chance of
staying out of the hospital in 2016, compared to industry standards
of hospitalization rates. Out of every 1,000 patients, only 226
HealthCare Partners patients were admitted to a hospital versus the
industry average of 282 patients.
HealthCare Partners Reduces Hospital Readmissions –
HealthCare Partners achieved success in care transitions and
reducing hospitalizations in 2016. Patients treated by HCP had a 14
percent better chance of not returning to the hospital, thanks at
least in part to the company's care transition program.
DaVita Hospital Services Optimizes Patient Experience with
Patient Quality Pyramid – DaVita Hospital Services published
its Patient Quality Pyramid to provide structure to how hospitals
can achieve optimal patient experiences when working with renal
care populations.
DaVita Medicare Advantage Chronic Special Needs Plans (C-SNP)
Deliver Lower Hospitalization, Readmission and Catheter Rates
– DaVita's C-SNPs for Medicare Advantage patients with kidney
failure outperformed the national USRDS benchmark for ESRD patients
with a 32 percent lower hospital admission rate, 52 percent lower
readmission rate and 71 percent lower central venous catheter (CVC)
rate.
Highmark Patients Experience Fewer Hospital Admissions and
Lower Healthcare Costs – DaVita VillageHealth, a subsidiary of
DaVita that specializes in integrated kidney care and renal
population health management, reported a 27 percent year-over-year
reduction in hospital admissions and 26 percent year-over-year
reduction in addressable costs among patients enrolled in its renal
population health program with Highmark.
21st Century Cures Act to Become Law – After
three years of advocacy on behalf of dialysis patients and
teammates, the president signed legislation allowing ESRD patients
to choose a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan – until now, a choice
available only to Medicare beneficiaries without ESRD. MA plans
often provide high-quality, coordinated care for beneficiaries with
complex medical conditions, which can enhance patients' health and
quality of life.
Business Growth
DaVita, Khazanah and Mitsui Create Joint Venture to Expand
Kidney Care Services in Asia
Pacific – DaVita Kidney
Care announced the creation of a long-term joint venture
with Khazanah Nasional Berhad, the strategic investment fund of the
Government of Malaysia, and Mitsui
& Co., LTD., one of the most diversified and comprehensive
trading, investment and services companies in the world. The joint
venture is intended to support the growth of DaVita Kidney Care operations in the
Asia-Pacific region.
DaVita Acquires First Dialysis Centers in Brazil – DaVita
Kidney Care continued to expand its international footprint
by acquiring eight clinics in Brazil in 2016. The company now treats nearly
2,000 patients in eight cities across the country.
HealthCare Partners Expands – HealthCare Partners
announced the closing of the merger with The Everett Clinic, a
nationally recognized physician group. The Everett Clinic operates
20 care sites north of Seattle,
treating more than 315,000 patients and employing roughly 2,200
teammates, including more than 500 specialty and primary care
providers. HealthCare Partners also announced acquisition
agreements with Family Health Care of Central Florida, a highly reputable primary
care group serving the Orlando
metro area, and Mountain View Medical Group, the second largest
physician group in Colorado
Springs.
DaVita Launches Joint Venture with Inspira Health Network to
Provide Dialysis Services – DaVita
Kidney Care announced a joint venture with Inspira Health
Network that will bring DaVita's industry-leading quality patient
care to Southern New Jersey. The
joint venture transferred majority ownership of three Inspira
dialysis centers located in Vineland, Millville and Bridgeton to DaVita and created opportunities
to grow dialysis services throughout the communities that Inspira
currently serves.
DaVita, Northwell Health Announce Joint Venture to Deliver
Full Suite of Kidney Care Services – Northwell Health (formerly
North Shore-LIJ Health System) and DaVita
Kidney Care announced a new joint venture to serve thousands
of patients in Queens and
Long Island with integrated kidney
care. The joint venture between DaVita and Northwell Health,
New York state's largest health
care provider and private employer, also includes plans for
additional expansion in Staten
Island over the coming years.
DaVita Treats over 1,300 Patients in Saudi Arabia – DaVita celebrated the
successful transition of over 1,300 Saudi patients to its care
since receiving a five-year tender from the Saudi Ministry of
Health to treat half of its 10,000 dialysis patients in 2014. The
company also has opened 12 clinics in rural and urban areas of the
country, providing greater access to quality kidney care.
DaVita VillageHealth® Manages 20,000 Renal Patients –
DaVita VillageHealth continued to grow its commercial and
government operations with more than 10 health plan and health
system partnerships, eight Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans
and three ESRD Seamless Care Organizations. DaVita's renal
population health division actively manages 20,000 renal patients,
with nearly 7,000 at-risk patients.
Paladina Health Increases Number of Patients Served –
Paladina Health, a direct primary care medical home subsidiary of
DaVita Inc., offered primary care services for an eligible
population of over 90,000 covered lives, an increase of over 42,000
from the year prior. The company opened seven new locations serving
six new clients, including expansion into Ohio. Care is provided throughout 50 locations
across 11 states.
DaVita Labs Expands Footprint in Florida – DaVita
Labs, the diagnostic laboratory servicing both dialysis
organizations and physician practices, expanded its laboratory
operations in 2016 to DeLand,
Florida, to accommodate future teammate
growth.
Village Awards
In 2016, DaVita won over 40 major awards, including the
following:
Business Excellence
FORTUNE® Magazine's World's Most Admired
Companies – For the ninth consecutive year, and 10th year
overall, DaVita was named among the World's Most Admired Companies
by Fortune® Magazine.
100 Most Influential People in Health Care – Kent Thiry was ranked number 18 among the
most influential people in U.S. health care by Modern
Healthcare. DaVita believes this list should be called the
"most influential companies" list because this recognition is both
a testament to its teammates' hard work and commitment to patients,
and an indication of the growing acknowledgment of the
contributions DaVita makes to the health care industry and to the
world at large.
Consumer Reports – HealthCare Partners was named one of
the highest-ranking medical groups in Los
Angeles County for the third year in a row by Consumer
Reports Magazine.
Freedom-Centered Workplace – For the ninth straight year,
DaVita was ranked among the world's most freedom-centered
workplaces by WorldBlu (formerly called "most democratic
workplaces").
Caring for Our Patients
DaVita Clinical Research® Wins CRO Leadership Awards –
DaVita Clinical Research (DCR) was awarded multiple Life Science
Leader's 2016 CRO Leadership Awards. DCR received an award in
each of the five categories: capabilities, compatibility,
expertise, quality, and reliability as rated by decision-making
executives at biopharmaceutical companies.
SCAN Health Plan Top Performing Medical Group –
HealthCare Partners was honored in recognition of the quality of
care and service delivered by medical professionals and staff.
Selection was based on HCP's performance score of four stars or
higher, on a five-star scale, in areas such as preventive
screenings, treatment of chronic conditions, and appropriate
documentation.
eHealthcare Leadership Award – DaVita was presented with
a gold eHealthcare Leadership Award for DaVita.com/DietHelper in
the consumer/disease-focused site category.
Anthem Blue Cross Enhanced Personal Health Care Program
– For the third consecutive year, Anthem
recognized HealthCare Partners for achieving quality scores
that resulted in a cost savings of $1.6
million from participation in its Enhanced Person Health
Care (EPHC) program, a commercial Accountable Care Organization
(ACO). The savings were driven by meeting 100 percent of the
quality thresholds set by Anthem, and exceeded the Medical Cost
Target (MCT) benchmark. Specifically, HealthCare Partners was able
to lower admission rates, direct patients to outpatient surgery
centers more, and prescribe appropriate medications while
increasing generic drug dispensing rates.
National Health Information Awards – DaVita took home two
awards, a silver award for Today's Kidney Diet – Hearty Winter
Dishes and a merit award for the DaVita Denver International
Airport Ad Campaign.
Digital Health Information Awards – DaVita was
honored with six awards this year, including four awards for its
social media platforms; DaVita's Facebook (gold), Twitter (bronze),
Pinterest (bronze) and Instagram (merit). The DaVita Kidney Diet
Tips blog won a silver award in the web-based blog category and the
DaVita Eats video won a Merit award in the web based video
category.
Caring for Each Other
Top Workplaces – DaVita was named to the Colorado Top
Workplaces list for the fifth consecutive year and to the
Nashville list for the second
time. HealthCare Partners' Florida
division was recognized as a Tampa Bay Top Workplace for the
seventh consecutive year.
2016 Training Top 125 – For the 12th consecutive year,
Training Magazine named DaVita a leading organization that
offers exceptional workforce training and leadership development
programs.
Becker's Hospital Review 150 Great Places to
Work in Healthcare – DaVita was named as one of the 150
Great Places to Work in Healthcare for the third year in a row.
LearningElite – DaVita was recognized as a Silver
LearningElite organization in 2016 by Chief Learning Officer
magazine for creating and implementing exemplary teammate
development practices that deliver measurable business value.
Best Clinical/Top Doctors lists – Many physicians and
clinics of HealthCare Partners and The Everett Clinic were named
"Top Docs" or best medical facilities by community newspapers and
business journals.
Ragan Employee Communications award – DaVita's
Village Vitality program "Creating a Healthier Village"
communications package won an Honorable Mention in 2016.
International Association Business Communicators Gold
Quill – Stories of the Village magazine won the
Award of Excellence. This is the fourth year Stories of DaVita
Village has won a Gold Quill.
Hermes Creative Awards – DaVita won multiple
awards, including:
- Two gold awards for Stories of the DaVita Village
Magazine and the "How to Shoot a Video" video
- Platinum award for the Open Enrollment program
- DaVita's internal creative teams won five Hermes awards: two
Gold for the DaVita HealthCare Partners office installation and the
International Kidney-Friendly Recipes (Colombia, Germany and Saudi
Arabia), a Platinum award for the Thriving after Military
Service (TAMS) booklet, and two Honorable Mentions for the "I am
Redwoods" event material for DaVita's internship program and
DaVita's green initiative 2020 Goals Campaign.
Caring for Our World
Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) – DaVita
Kidney Care was selected as an index component of the DJSI. This
recognized DaVita's corporate sustainability leadership in the
healthcare equipment and services industry. DaVita was the only
kidney care company on the list in 2016 and one of six North
American companies in this category on the World List.
Newsweek Green Rankings – DaVita was
recognized by Newsweek Green Rankings as a 2016 Top Green
Company in the U.S. The company has appeared on the list every year
the award program has run since 2009.
Communitas Awards – Village Green, DaVita's
sustainability group, won in the 2016 Green Initiatives
category.
Military Awards
Best for Vets – DaVita was recognized by Military
Times Edge as a "Best for Vets" employer for the seventh
consecutive year.
Top Veteran-Friendly Companies – DaVita was honored
as a top veteran-friendly company by U.S. Veterans Magazine
for the fourth consecutive year.
Most Valuable Employer for Military – For the sixth
year in a row, CivilianJobs.com named DaVita as a Most Valuable
Employer for Military.
G.I. Jobs Military Friendly – DaVita was named a
Military Friendly company by G.I.
Jobs for the seventh consecutive year.
Clinical Innovation and Research
DaVita and Rock Health Announce Partnership to Advance
Innovation in Healthcare – DaVita announced a partnership with
Rock Health that will help facilitate direct connections between
the diverse, innovative companies in Rock Health's portfolio and
DaVita, to allow for opportunities to better serve DaVita's nearly
two million patients, 67,000 teammates and 15,000 affiliated
physicians around the world.
DaVita Clinical Research & Quintiles Announce Strategic
Alliance – DCR announced a strategic alliance with
Quintiles IMS, the world's largest provider of product development
and integrated healthcare services. The alliance combines DaVita's
world class clinical care and expansive footprint of research sites
with Quintiles' industry-leading operational delivery and
therapeutic expertise in clinical trials.
DaVita Clinical Research Launches Data Visualization
Portal – DCR launched a Data Visualization Portal giving
users complimentary access to a captivating, interactive data
summary on its de-identified EMR dialysis datasets.
DaVita Hospital Services Receives Re-Accreditation from The
Joint Commission – DaVita Hospital Services was re-accredited
for Ambulatory Health Care from The Joint Commission in 2016.
DaVita Hospital Services is the first dialysis organization to
secure re-accreditation.
Falcon® Physician and MEDfx Team Up to Fully Automate a
Nephrology Practice – MEDfx and Falcon Physician partnered
to provide a standards-based Electronic Health Record (EHR),
Practice Management (PM) and Revenue Cycle Management system to
fully automate a nephrology practice.
Falcon Mobile Launches Hospital Charge Capture – The new
Hospital Charge Capture (HCC) feature on Falcon Mobile allows
physicians to record charges at hospitals and access critical
patient data within a single app.
Improved Patient Care
Chronic Kidney Disease Training Program Celebrates the
Education of over 100,000 patients – Kidney Smart®
programs have educated over 100,000 patients since the programs'
introduction in 2012. As a result, cardiovascular catheter (CVC)
rates on the first day of dialysis treatment among patients
educated in the Kidney Smart program are 25 percent lower than
those who did not attend the training program.
Lifeline Vascular Access® Celebrates 1 Million Patient
Encounters – Lifeline Vascular Access, a subsidiary of DaVita,
celebrated its 1 millionth patient encounter in 2016. Lifeline is a
nationwide network of free-standing outpatient vascular access
centers, created to improve renal patient outcomes and quality of
life by improving vascular access care.
Paladina Health Exceeds Key Healthcare Delivery
Benchmarks – For the second consecutive year, Paladina Health
exceeded the 90th percentile for Healthcare Effectiveness Data and
Information Sets commercial PPO benchmarks in hypertension
management and colorectal cancer screening while achieving over 70
percent Net Promoter Score in patient satisfaction.
Short, How-To Recipe Videos Launch for Kidney Disease and
Dialysis Patients – DaVita Kidney
Care created a series of short cooking videos featuring
kidney-friendly recipes to help make healthy diet options easy and
accessible to patients with chronic kidney disease.
DaVita Launches International Kidney Disease Awareness Video
Series – DaVita Kidney Care
launched a series of five short, animated videos in multiple
languages designed to raise awareness of and educate people on
kidney disease in domestic and international communities where the
company operates.
Nearly 5,000 People Assess Risk for Kidney Disease during
National Kidney Month – In March
2016, nearly 5,000 people took a 60-second quiz – which can
be accessed at DaVita.com/LearnYourRisk – to help assess their risk
for kidney disease. One in 10 adults age 20 or older in the U.S.
has kidney disease, but many don't know it because the disease is
often symptomless in its early stages.
DaVita Educates Community about Health and Disaster
Preparedness – DaVita's Village Emergency Response Team hosted
emergency preparedness workshops in California and New
York to better prepare dialysis patients and their
communities for disaster situations. DaVita engaged local emergency
responders, elected officials and healthcare agencies, resulting in
increased awareness about the needs of dialysis patients after
disasters.
DaVita Responds to Numerous Natural Disasters in 2016
– DaVita teammates responded to several natural disasters in
2016, including Hurricane Matthew and the historic flooding in
Louisiana that impacted many
patients, teammates and their families.
DaVita Labs Processes More Than 45 Million Tests in 2016
– DaVita Labs delivers accurate,
timely test results for kidney care patients. In 2016, DaVita Labs processed more than 45 million
tests, helping nephrologists provide quality care to their
patients.
DaVita Supports Transplant Education – DaVita has long
been committed to helping its patients receive a thorough kidney
transplant education within 30 days of their first dialysis
treatment. Patients are educated about the step-by-step transplant
process and requirements, health benefits of a transplant and the
transplant center options available to them.
Teammate Support
DaVita University Helps Teammates Develop Personally and
Professionally – In 2016, DaVita University's Schools of
Clinical Education and Leadership delivered 182 programs impacting
more than 25,000 teammates to enhance their personal and
professional development.
DaVita Supports Teammates with Military Background – Over
the past six years, DaVita has hired more than 2,000 veterans. The
"Village Veterans" programs encourage new veteran teammates to
receive mentorship from company leaders as they transition to new
roles within the company, and include:
- Veterans 2 Village (V2V) is a new, two-day class that
was piloted in 2016 with the intent to integrate into the DaVita
professional development curriculum in 2017. This class focuses on
self-development and introduces our Village Veterans to our other
military programs and benefits and explains how to get more
involved in DaVita veteran initiatives. The 58 veteran participants
and 12 veteran guides focus on emotional intelligence,
communication and team building designed to help ease the
transition from the military into the Village culture.
- Thriving after Military Service (TAMS) is a five-day
workshop, facilitated by a Marine Corps veteran, which takes an
in-depth approach to self-development and includes the option to
bring a guest. DaVita veteran teammates who have graduated from
TAMS may become Veteran Guides for V2V and facilitate group
discussions and class activities.
- Veteran Guides are a group of teammates hand-selected
from the TAMS graduate group to help facilitate the V2V live
course. A one-day training is provided to help teammates understand
how to guide table conversations and lead group discussions.
Mentors are organically formed from the relationships created at
the V2V program, and teammates attending V2V are encouraged to stay
in contact with their Veteran Guides.
Corporate Citizenship, Education, Empowerment
DaVita Gives More Than $2.2
Million to Nonprofits Across the U.S. – For the sixth
year in a row, the DaVita Way of Giving campaign has given clinical
teammates throughout the U.S. the opportunity to direct donations
to nonprofits in their communities. Since 2011, teammates have
directed donations of nearly $9.1
million to nonprofits through the program. 2016 saw our
highest level of participation ever – 90 percent of our clinical
teams participated in the program, directing donations of more than
$2.2 million and spreading ripples
across their local communities.
DaVita Furthers Goal to Majority Diverse Board – DaVita
grew its board to 11 members in 2016, adding another female
director and bringing the total number of women on the board to
three. According to 2020 Women on Boards, only 42 percent of
Fortune 1000 companies had boards that were 20 percent or more
women.
Dynamic Volunteerism, DaVita's Skills-Based Volunteer
Initiative – In 2015, DaVita launched a volunteer business
consulting initiative designed to give teammates the opportunity to
use their skills, talents and passions to address specific
organizational needs of local nonprofits. This year, nearly 30
teammates partnered with the National Sports Center for the
Disabled, Urban Peak and Denver
Scholarship Foundation to improve these organizations' marketing
and branding strategies, workplace culture, strategic planning and
board governance.
Teammates Volunteer More Than 7,500 Hours During Earth Day Initiative – In honor of
Earth Day 2016, approximately 2,600
DaVita teammates, their families and friends volunteered over 7,500
hours through 140 environmental service projects in their local
communities.
Tour DaVita® Raises over
$1.2 Million for Global Kidney Care
and Kidney Disease Prevention Efforts – More than 560 riders
participated in Tour DaVita, DaVita's annual charity bike ride,
which raised over $1.2 million to
support Bridge of Life. Bridge of Life serves thousands of men,
women and children around the world through kidney care, primary
care, education and prevention and medically supported camps for
kids.
DaVita Reports on Corporate Social Responsibility and
Innovation – DaVita released its 2015 Community Care report,
which highlights progress on key initiatives supporting the
company's vision for corporate social responsibility (CSR) – the
Trilogy of Care: Caring for Our Patients, Caring for Each Other and
Caring for Our World.
DaVita Hospital Services Cares for Military Personnel –
In September 2016, DaVita Hospital
Services assembled and sent 350 care packages for military
personnel serving overseas.
About DaVita Inc.
DaVita Inc., a Fortune 500® company,
is the parent company of DaVita Kidney
Care and HealthCare Partners. DaVita
Kidney Care is a leading provider of kidney care in
the United States, delivering
dialysis services to patients with chronic kidney failure and end
stage renal disease. As of Sept. 30,
2016, DaVita Kidney Care
operated or provided administrative services at 2,318 outpatient
dialysis centers located in the United
States serving approximately 186,000 patients. The company
also operated 139 outpatient dialysis centers located in 11
countries outside the United
States. HealthCare Partners manages and operates medical
groups and affiliated physician networks in California, Nevada, New
Mexico, Florida,
Colorado and Washington in its pursuit to deliver
excellent-quality health care in a dignified and compassionate
manner. As of Sept. 30, 2016,
HealthCare Partners provided integrated care management for
approximately 750,000 patients. For more information, please visit
DaVita.com/About.
DaVita is a registered trademark of DaVita Inc.
Contact Information
Media:
Ashley Henson
(303) 876-6626
ashley.henson@davita.com
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