Kindred Healthcare, Inc. (“Kindred” or the “Company”) (NYSE:KND)
today released a summary of some of its major achievements in
2016.
“In 2016, we made significant progress in our continuing efforts
to grow the Company and improve our quality outcomes across our
care settings,” said Benjamin A. Breier, Kindred’s President and
Chief Executive Officer. “We are setting the foundation for a
stronger Kindred as we drive effective patient-centered care
solutions and proactively address the changing healthcare
marketplace.”
Major 2016 highlights include:
Partnerships with Leading Health Systems – In 2016,
Kindred announced four new partnerships with leading health systems
across the country to build and operate inpatient rehabilitation
hospitals in California (with Palomar Health), Iowa (with Mercy
Medical Center-Des Moines), New Jersey (with Atlantic Health
System) and Washington (with CHI Franciscan Health). Three of the
four hospitals are scheduled to open in 2018 and the California
facility is expected to open in 2019. In January 2016, Kindred
opened its second inpatient rehabilitation hospital in the
Cleveland area in partnership with University Hospitals. In October
2016, Kindred opened a new inpatient rehabilitation hospital in
Chandler, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, in partnership with Dignity
Health.
Kindred at Home – Kindred continued to expand its home
health, hospice and personal care services through organic growth
and the acquisition of existing agencies and licenses to provide
services. Kindred acquired the in-home healthcare operations from
the Arkansas Department of Health, which included licenses to
provide home health, hospice and personal care services throughout
the state. In South Carolina, Kindred at Home also acquired
licenses to provide home health services across the entire state.
In total, Kindred at Home added over 40 new sites of service in
2016 through acquisitions and start-ups.
Fortune Most Admired – In 2016, Kindred was named one of
Fortune magazine’s Most Admired Healthcare Companies for the
seventh time.
Kindred and its facilities have been recognized for their
efforts to improve quality patient care, which include the
following:
Quality Care
Baldrige Award – Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation
Center - Mountain Valley in Kellogg, Idaho, is one of four
recipients of the 2016 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the
nation’s most prestigious recognition for performance excellence.
Mountain Valley is the first nursing center to receive a Baldrige
Award in the program’s history.
Kindred at Home – In 2016, 132 of Kindred at Home’s home
health locations were named to the HomeCare Elite list, which
identifies the nation’s top 25% of Medicare-certified agencies. In
another measure of quality performance, in the Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services’ (“CMS”) Five-Star Rating System, which
recognizes the highest quality care, 269 Kindred at Home home
health locations had four or more stars for quality of patient care
and 271 locations had four or more stars for patient satisfaction
with home healthcare. Additionally, in 2016, our personal home care
assistance locations significantly outperformed national benchmarks
in client satisfaction.
Comprehensive Primary Care Plus – Kindred House Calls,
the Company’s Home-Based Primary Care (“HBPC”) practice, is one of
more than 2,900 primary care practices nationwide participating in
Comprehensive Primary Care Plus, a partnership between payor
partners from CMS, state Medicaid agencies, commercial health
plans, self-insured businesses and primary care providers. This
partnership is designed to provide improved access to quality
healthcare at lower costs. Kindred House Calls is one of the
largest HBPC practices in the nation, with approximately 100
practitioners providing care to more than 10,000 patients annually
in 12 markets in five states.
Medicare Shared Savings Program – In August 2016, CMS
announced that the Las Vegas, Nevada-based Silver State Accountable
Care Organization (“ACO”), of which Kindred is a strategic owner
and partner, was among only 22% of the nation’s Medicare Shared
Savings ACOs that generated savings for the 2015 performance year.
When an ACO exceeds quality and financial thresholds –
demonstrating achievement of high-quality care and wiser spending
of healthcare dollars – it is able to share in the savings
generated for Medicare.
Education and Corporate
Citizenship
Clinical Impact Symposium – In November 2016, Kindred
conducted its eighth Annual Clinical Impact Symposium – Pain
Management: Across the Continuum – attracting educators,
physicians, clinicians and therapists from all divisions to learn
from the nation’s leading experts on pain management. By bringing
together over 300 professionals from across the Kindred enterprise
and from many different disciplines, Kindred furthered its
commitment to provide the best in interdisciplinary care for its
patients and customers.
Social Responsibility – Kindred’s commitment to its
patients and residents extends to helping raise money and awareness
to fight the diseases that most affect them and their loved ones.
Throughout 2016, Kindred employees nationwide participated in
events and fundraisers strengthening the Company’s state and
national relationships with the American Lung Association, the
Alzheimer’s Association and the American Heart Association.
Together raising nearly $700,000 across the country, Kindred fights
to bring awareness to the diseases that our patients
experience.
Awards and Achievements
- Modern Healthcare magazine recognized
Mr. Breier among the most influential leaders in healthcare.
- Texas Rehabilitation Hospital of Fort
Worth, Texas, ranked eighth on Fortune’s list of the 100 Best
Workplaces for Women. Texas Rehabilitation Hospital is a
partnership of Kindred Rehabilitation Services and Texas Health
Resources. In addition, the hospital ranked 23rd on a Fortune list
of 100 Best Medium Workplaces. Medium Workplaces are for employers
with between 100 and 999 employees.
- The staff at Kindred Hospital Seattle -
First Hill in Seattle, Washington, was included on the State
Department of Health’s 2016 Honor Roll for Antimicrobial
Stewardship. The honor commends facilities where the staff is
working to improve antibiotic use, reduce antibiotic resistance and
improve patient outcomes.
- Three of the Company’s nursing centers
and one assisted living facility received a 2016 Silver Quality
Award from the American Health Care Association and National Center
for Assisted Living. In addition, one nursing center and one
sub-acute unit received a 2016 Bronze Award. One of the Silver
Award recipients, Kindred Living at Village Crossings in Cape
Elizabeth, Maine, received the Maine Health Care Association 2016
Celebrating Excellence in Quality Award. The awards are given
annually to long-term care providers that are making significant
strides toward achieving and maintaining quality.
- Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation -
Golden Gate in San Francisco, California, was one of five
recipients of the California Awards for Performance Excellence
Eureka Award, as presented by the California Council for
Excellence. Honorees are recognized based on the Baldrige Framework
for Performance Excellence for their outstanding commitment to
sustainable excellence through innovation, continuous improvement
and visionary leadership.
- Kindred Transitional Care and
Rehabilitation - Park Place in Great Falls, Montana, received the
Recognition of Excellence Award from Mountain-Pacific Quality
Health. CMS supports the National Nursing Home Quality Care
Collaborative (“NNHQCC”) through the Quality Improvement
Organization program. Mountain-Pacific Quality Health is the local
facilitator for Montana. The NNHQCC’s goals are to instill quality
and performance improvement practices, eliminate
healthcare-acquired conditions and improve resident satisfaction.
As a measure to reflect achievement of these goals, CMS created a
“composite score” system to assess quality of care based on 13
quality measures. The awards are based on each facility’s composite
score, its licensure with the Office of Healthcare Licensing and
Survey (Montana’s state survey agency) and its certification with
CMS.
About Kindred Healthcare
Kindred Healthcare, Inc., a top-90 private employer in the
United States, is a FORTUNE 500 healthcare services company based
in Louisville, Kentucky with annual revenues of approximately
$7.2 billion(1). As of October 1, 2016, Kindred through its
subsidiaries had approximately 102,200 employees providing
healthcare services in 2,702 locations in 46 states, including 82
long-term acute care hospitals, 19 inpatient rehabilitation
hospitals, 91 nursing centers, 19 sub-acute units, 647 Kindred at
Home home health, hospice and non-medical home care sites of
service, 104 inpatient rehabilitation units (hospital-based) and
contract rehabilitation service businesses which served 1,740
non-affiliated sites of service. Ranked as one of Fortune
magazine’s Most Admired Healthcare Companies for seven years,
Kindred’s mission is to promote healing, provide hope, preserve
dignity and produce value for each patient, resident, family
member, customer, employee and shareholder we serve. For more
information, go to www.kindredhealthcare.com. You can also follow
us on Twitter and Facebook.
(1) Revenues based upon Kindred consolidated revenues for the
twelve months ended September 30, 2016.
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