Leveraging Rehabilitation to Drive Value in the Hospital and Beyond

The WHO Global Report on Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities reveals that 1.3 billion people, or 16% of the global population, live with significant disabilities. In the United States, nearly one in four adults (61 million Americans) faces disability, influenced by aging, lifestyle changes and obesity. Major contributors include low back pain, costing $50 billion annually in direct management and over $100 billion when including indirect costs like lost productivity and hospital immobility, which leads to costly complications such as pressure ulcers, deep vein thrombosis and increased falls, prolonging hospital stays and elevating readmission rates. Pressure ulcers alone cost over $26 billion annually.

To address these growing concerns, a well-defined health system rehabilitation strategy is required to enhance patient quality of life and reduce healthcare costs by minimizing hospitalizations, emergency visits, readmissions and complications. Comprehensive rehabilitation strategies, spanning hospital to home care, are pivotal for improving patient outcomes and managing healthcare expenses. Join us as we discuss key variables in developing your health system rehabilitation strategy and detail best practices to optimize acute hospital and ambulatory musculoskeletal rehabilitation care.

Learning Objectives:

• Detail the tenets and methods of a structured process for developing and implementing an interprofessional rehabilitation strategy and musculoskeletal ambulatory care.
• Identify key variables to consider in developing a rehabilitation strategy across the care continuum.

Speakers:

Michael Friedman
Senior Director Strategic Programs - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Justin D. Moore, PT, DPT
CEO
APTA - American Physical Therapy Association

Stephen J. Hunter, DPT, OCS, FAPTA
Director, Internal Process Control, Rehabilitation Services
Intermountain Health

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