Collective Medical Appoints Steven Goldschmidt to Lead Post-Acute Expansion
December 19 2018 - 9:06AM
Business Wire
Goldschmidt to accelerate the onboarding of
post-acute care providers across the country onto the Collective
Network
Collective Medical delivering the nation’s largest and most
effective network for care collaboration, today announced the
appointment of Steven Goldschmidt as vice president of post-acute
network development. In this role, Goldschmidt is focused on
accelerating the nationwide onboarding of post-acute providers onto
the Collective Network™, including skilled nursing facilities, home
health organizations and other long-term care organizations.
Post-acute providers gain near-immediate value from joining
Collective’s nationwide network, which covers all points of care
including emergent, inpatient, behavioral health providers,
ambulatory clinics, ACOs and health plans. In a recent story,
Skilled Nursing News reported that in less than six months of
joining the Collective Network, Marquis Companies, a skilled
nursing provider in the Pacific Northwest, realized a 60 percent
reduction in readmissions.
“There’s an energy and momentum around Collective within all
audiences of the healthcare industry, including SNFs, hospitals,
accountable care organizations and behavioral health settings,”
says Goldschmidt. “I’ve witnessed firsthand the challenges SNFs and
home health providers face when coordinating with other
organizations on high-risk patients. I’m proud to be a part of the
solution.”
Goldschmidt joins Collective as a post-acute healthcare
technology veteran. Before joining Collective, Goldschmidt
established himself as the senior director of sales at SigmaCare.
He went on to become vice president of enterprise sales at
MatrixCare. His experience in handling rapid scaling within the
post-acute sector is invaluable as Collective continues to rapidly
onboard healthcare organizations across the country to remove
friction from transitions of care for improved patient outcomes and
decreased hospital readmissions.
“The transition of care between an acute setting and a SNF can
mean all the difference in a patient’s outcome,” says Chris Klomp,
CEO of Collective Medical. “Care teams on our network continue to
use the insights delivered via the Collective Platform to
demonstrate incredible improvements related to transitions of care
and avoidable readmissions. This, in turn, reduces cost both for
the patient and the broader healthcare system. Steven is a force in
the post-acute sector—his experience, horsepower and tenacity are
incredible assets to Collective. We’re so pleased to have him on
our team.”
The Collective Network and Platform are supporting dramatic
improvements in reducing avoidable readmissions. As an example,
Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center of Tacoma, Wash., was able to
reduce its all-cause readmissions rate by nearly 25 percent over 24
months. It did this through a program supported by Collective
technology enabling frictionless collaboration with community
providers.
Inadequate care transitions – especially transitions between
care settings – create greater financial risk for providers and
poorer outcomes for patients. In general, The Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services found that almost 20 percent of Medicare
patients were readmitted to a hospital within 30 days, costing more
than $26 billion per year. This massive issue can be attributed to
the communication gap between the different branches of our
healthcare system.
Collective Medical is endorsed as a best practice for emergency
medicine by the American College of Emergency Physicians. The
company 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.
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