Collective Medical Partners with the Kentucky Hospital Association
October 11 2018 - 8:50AM
Business Wire
Partnership to uniquely foster collaboration
enabling Kentucky hospitals to better combat the opioid
epidemic
Collective Medical, delivering the nation’s largest and most
effective network for care collaboration, today announced a
partnership with the Kentucky Hospital Association (KHA). The
partnership supports providers across the state with real-time
information at the point of care to identify and support complex
patients. In addition to fostering care collaboration across KHA
member hospitals and surrounding regions, the partnership will
focus on helping member hospitals identify and support patients
with a possible substance use disorder and will prioritize
workplace safety and security for care teams.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Kentucky is
among the top ten states with the highest opioid-related overdose
deaths—with nearly double the national rate. Related, the state has
seen a 37-fold increase in Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome between
2000 and 2013.
“Collective has supported dramatically improved patient outcomes
in states across the country, and it has become instrumental for
hospitals combating the opioid epidemic,” says Melissa Platt, MD,
of the University of Louisville Health System. UofL Hospital is
located in the heart of the Louisville Metro, and is the only Level
1 Trauma Center in the region. Platt continues, “We’re thrilled to
join the Collective network and provide our care teams with a
proven technology to identify and collaborate on our high-risk and
complex patients.”
Use of the Collective network and platform is proven to impact
the opioid epidemic. As an example, Washington State, where
Collective serves as the technical backbone to the state’s
groundbreaking “ER is for Emergencies” program, has seen a 24
percent reduction in opioid prescriptions coming out of the
emergency department (ED) since the program’s inception. Likewise,
at Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Palmer, Alaska, use of the
Collective platform combined with statewide prescribing guidelines
has resulted in a 61 percent reduction in opioid scripts written
between 2015 and 2017 and a 47 percent reduction in opioids given
in the ED.
“The Collective network gives our hospital a way to collaborate
with other care teams to identify and develop care plans for
at-risk and complex patients,” says Dennis Johnson, CEO of Hardin
Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown, which operates one of the
busiest EDs in the state. Johnson adds that, “With Collective,
hospitals in Kentucky are empowered to work with each other—and
with hospitals across the country—for the benefit of our
patients.”
The partnership between Collective and KHA will also target
security and safety in the ED, which is a priority not only in
Kentucky but nationwide. The American College of Emergency
Physicians (ACEP) announced results of a recent poll of 3,500
emergency physicians finding that nearly half of those surveyed had
been physically assaulted while at work. More than six in 10 of
those assaulted say it has occurred within the past year. Likewise,
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration estimates that of
the 25,000 workplace assaults that occur annually, 75 percent occur
in healthcare and social services settings – and these incidents
are under-reported. The Collective network offers a unique and
effective way for facilities to record and share security and
safety events for the benefit of care teams and patients. The
Collective platform offers EDs the opportunity to document when a
patient poses a safety threat to care providers, staff, other
patients in the ED, or themselves.
“This partnership will foster collaboration between our state’s
care teams, making it easier to provide patients with quality care,
while achieving the larger goal of curbing the opioid epidemic and
prioritizing the safety of hospital staff,” says Mike Rust,
president of the Kentucky Hospital Association. “Collective has
successfully helped other states throughout the country, and we’re
excited to start applying the same collaborative strategies here at
home.”
Collective is currently partnered with more than a dozen state
hospital associations across the U.S. The Collective platform is a
real-time, risk-adjusted event notification and care collaboration
tool fueled by collaboration between emergent, inpatient,
post-acute, mental and behavioral, and ambulatory settings, as well
as stakeholders in ACOs and health plans.
“We’re inspired by the spirit of collaboration demonstrated by
Kentucky hospitals,” says Chris Klomp, CEO of Collective Medical.
“We’re grateful to partner with the KHA and be a part of the
solution in the fight against the opioid epidemic.”
Collective is endorsed as a best practice for emergency medicine
by the American College of Emergency Physicians and has been
recognized by Inc. Magazine and by the MountainWest Capital Network
as one of Utah’s fastest growing companies.
Learn more about Collective’s impact
at www.collectivemedical.com.
ABOUT COLLECTIVE MEDICAL
Collective Medical empowers care teams to improve patient
outcomes by closing the communication gaps that undermine patient
care. With a nationwide network engaged with every national health
plan in the country, hundreds of hospitals and health systems and
tens of thousands of providers, Collective’s system-agnostic
platform is trusted by care teams to identify at-risk and complex
patients and facilitate actionable collaboration to make better
care decisions and improve outcomes. Based in Salt Lake City,
Collective is proven to streamline transitions of care, improve
coordination across diverse care teams, and reduce medically
unnecessary hospital admissions. Learn more at
www.collectivemedical.com and Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
ABOUT THE KENTUCKY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION
The Kentucky Hospital Association (KHA), established in 1929,
represents hospitals, related health care organizations, and
integrated health care systems dedicated to sustaining and
improving the health status of the citizens of Kentucky.
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