Here’s an example of what an Illumination Analytics Long Term Care partner can tell you with 100% confidence and accuracy about their facility, simply by looking at a couple of HEALTH PROFILE dashboards immediately available at their fingertips:
“Our Medicaid residents:
- Have more Chronic Health Conditions, including:
- More heart problems
- More depression
- More musculoskeletal problems
- More diabetes
- More kidney problems
- But have less Parkinson’s
- Take more Prescription Medicines, including:
- Take more pain meds
- Take more heart meds
- Take more lung meds
- Take more anxiety meds
- Take more diabetes meds
- Take more anti-psychotic meds
- But take fewer anti-Parkinson meds
And we know the exact percentages that apply to each of the categories above. In addition:
- Our Medicaid residents each have an average of 8.3 Chronic Health Conditions per resident
- Our non-Medicaid residents each have an average of 5.0 Chronic Health Conditions per resident.
- Our Medicaid residents are each prescribed an average of 5.7 Meds
- Our non-Medicaid residents are each prescribed an average of 3.5 RxMeds.”
Another partner has very different findings, however. They found that the differences between their Medicaid and non-Medicaid residents are not nearly as great. We also see that other features are very different between the different buildings of our partners, such as resident risk levels, resident health acuity, types of chronic health conditions, and types of prescribed medicines.
These observations support our expectation that LTC HEALTH PROFILES of different facilities will differ markedly from one another and most likely depend on facility size, location, type of ownership, management, characteristics of the referral base, etc. As an illustration of the latter, facilities that are located near hospitals will probably have very different HEALTH PROFILES than facilities in more rural settings. It follows, therefore, that the most effective and appealing services and amenities of these facilities would also be expected to differ.
It also supports what will most likely be discovered by regional directors who oversee the operation of multiple facilities: the health characteristics of the residents living in your different buildings may be very different from one another. This implies that the services and amenities that most appeal to residents will also differ between different buildings. The lesson learned here is the value of “Customized Management” – management that is based on the characteristics of the residents who actually reside in your facilities rather than “guesses” or “blueprints” that are imposed on residents and which may not provide a ‘best fit.’
HEALTH PROFILES has transformed some simple health data into usable, accessible, and immediately available health information. Now you can direct your management team use this information to develop services and amenities to enhance the care that match your specific residents, reduce cost, and improve your marketing to your referral networks.
And this is just the beginning!
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