Effective care transitions for individuals from one setting or provider to another is an important component of a highly-functioning health care delivery system. Successful care transitions are indicators of multiple processes such as improved communication and coordination among providers; patient-centered care that highlights shared decision-making; patient education and empowerment. We know that better care transitions reduce medication error rates, emergency room visits, and hospital readmissions, and ultimately achieve the Triple Aim through improved patient experience and health outcomes at a lower cost to consumers and Colorado’s health care system.
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CIVHC Care Transitions Task Force
The purpose of the Care Transitions Task Force is to convene organizations across the state that are implementing care transitions interventions in order to share opportunities for learning, identify overlap or gaps in efforts, foster collaboration, and advance the integration of patient and family-centered approaches across Colorado’s health care delivery system.
Upcoming Care Transitions Task Force Meetings and Materials
Care Transitions Task Force Participants
Care Transitions Task Force Deliverables:
- Communications Work Group: Develop communications about care transitions for Colorado stakeholders and create common messaging to be shared among the state’s care transitions initiatives.
- Mapping Work Group: Create and maintain a statewide interactive map of all activities taking place related to care transitions in Colorado as well as data reporting health outcomes related to care transitions.
- Metrics Work Group: Identify cost and quality metrics related to improved care transitions and develop a standardized approach to evaluation of care transition initiatives.
- Resources Work Group: Identify best practices and tools to support communities’ efforts to implement care transition initiatives here in Colorado.
- Policy Work Group: Address major policy issues related to care transitions in Colorado, and to identify areas where statewide standardization of definitions and processes would serve the needs of those attempting to improve care transitions in Colorado.
Through 2012, the Care Transitions Task Force will meet on a quarterly basis. Each of the activities listed above will be carried out by individual work groups that meet on a monthly basis. For more detailed information on each of the work groups, please click on the links above.
Monthly Work Group Updates:
Schedule of all upcoming meetings and events
For questions related to care transitions, please contact us at info@civhc.org.