How the role of nurses and non-physician frontline caregivers changes in the population health model

12/09/22 • 19 min

When it comes to population health initiatives, nurses and other non-physician frontline caregivers are helping lead the way. It’s these team members who often excel at engaging patients and implementing new treatment models or tools to drive better outcomes and experiences.

As care moves from episodic to proactive, new opportunities and roles arise for these team members to help improve patient throughput and access across an integrated health care system, according to Jennifer Skinner, MSN, BSN, RN, senior vice president and chief nurse executive for TriHealth, in this episode of Getting Health Care Right.

One such role is the care manager. “Typically, this role is filled by a registered nurse. They help patients navigate along the continuum of their care. That’s particularly helpful when a patient is seeing a number of providers, crossing different care settings, and if they have any socioeconomic or other barriers preventing them from their care journey or achieving health or wellness,” says Skinner.

Listen to the episode, hosted by Cincinnati Business Courier Publisher Jamie Smith, to hear about:

· Staffing challenges in health systems today — and how TriHealth is able to retain its most valuable team members.

· How motivations for entering a nursing career have changed over the years.

· Skinner’s experience with implementing the TriHealth Way, a journey she calls “one of the highlights of my career.”

· The evolving role of nurses in the future of population health.

Listen to the episode, hosted by Cincinnati Business Courier Publisher Jamie Smith, to hear about:

· Staffing challenges in health systems today — and how TriHealth is able to retain its most valuable team members.

· How motivations for entering a nursing career have changed over the years.

· Skinner’s experience with implementing the TriHealth Way, a journey she calls “one of the highlights of my career.”

· The evolving role of nurses in the future of population health.

Previous Episode

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Ohio president, TriHealth CEO share how their partnership aims to help fix a broken system

Health systems across the country, including Cincinnati’s TriHealth, have begun collaborating with payer partners in an effort to reform ineffective payment models. Such partnerships aim to advance population health strategies and incentivize providers for more comprehensive and preventive care.

TriHealth’s partnership with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Ohio is designed to “put in place more progressive, innovative payment systems that reward health, that reward prevention, that reward providing care and delivering care in the right place at the right time to produce the right clinical outcomes at the right cost,” Mark Clement, TriHealth CEO said in this episode of Getting Health Care Right.

Clement and Jane Peterson, president of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Ohio, share insights about how this partnership is working towards its common goal of fixing a broken health care system. Listen to the podcast to learn more about:

· Why Anthem chose to support this approach to health care.

· Impacts seen from the partnership in terms of health outcomes.

· Ways area employers benefit from cooperative care.

· Future predictions on health care collaboration models.

· Care delivery in hospitals vs. ambulatory campuses around Cincinnati.

· Cincinnati as a leader in the health care space.

Next Episode

“My worst fear confirmed”: One patient’s lung cancer diagnosis and treatment journey

Don Maccarone had four negative baseline scans for lung cancer — and then came the fifth scan, which showed a suspicious mass.

“Lung cancer has a horrible reputation, justifiably so,” says Dr. Douglas Adams, a cardiothoracic surgeon with TriHealth and one of Maccarone’s physicians, in this episode of Getting Health Care Right. “But in this circumstance, it’s been detected at a point where there are a number of successful therapeutic options.”

Cincinnati Business Courier Publisher Jamie Smith speaks with both Maccarone and Adams about the importance of early detection and diagnosis. Listen to learn more about:

· Advanced technologies that can shorten the timeline from cancer detection through treatment.

· The historical paradigm of lung cancer detection and treatment — and how Maccarone’s experience could have been very different years ago.

· Cancer screening data and insurance considerations.

· How the population health approach to medicine helps Adams do his job as a surgeon better.

Learn more at TriHealth.com.