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Changing the Conversation: Providing Whole Health CareJacqueline Spencer, MD, Elizabeth Recupero, DO, Mary Gallagher-Seaman, RN
VA Boston Healthcare System and Office of Patient Centered Care, VACO
Background
Objectives
Methods Results
Lessons Learned
ReferencesVeterans Health Administration Office of Patient Centered Care & Cultural Transformation. (2014). Whole Health in Primary Care. Personalized Health Planning and Patient-Centered Care in a Clinical Setting [White paper]. Washington DC.
Special thanks to: Dr. Ralph Snyderman & Leigh Ann Simmons- PIRE, Dr. Tracey Gaudet & Janet Vertrees, OPCC&CT, VACO
The level of patient engagement in managing their health varies widely. Medicine is designed to address acute/chronic issues and not health and wellbeing. Changing the conversation and placing the patient in the center of their care while considering the Whole person can lead to improved patient activation.
•Create process for changing the conversation•Create tools to gather relevant information•Design a Personalized Health Plan•Complete Pilot in 3-4 months
•Identified 3 teams across 3 sites•Introduce concept of Whole Health•Whole Health ROS + traditional ROS and Personal Health Inventory•Health Risk Assessment (HealtheLiving Assessment (HLA)•Review of labs, chronic diseases, medical evaluations•Personalized Health Plan
• Amazing what can be done in 3-4 months with Leadership support
• Provider to provider/nurse to nurse communication works best to establish spread ideas
• MI and health coaching integral to approach• Process was easier to establish than documentation• Front desk staff appreciated being involved • Risk Assessment valuable but challenging to execute • Pts not always ready to set goals• Experience could moved patients from pre-
contemplation to contemplation and even action• Patients overwhelmingly positive about experience • Clinicians reported satisfaction with the process
Patient Survey resultsCoaching – 1/9 improved A1c, 8/9 engaged and tryingPHP – 5/24 contacted. All set goals, all pursued some action, either stated goal or alternative, all preferred this visit to typical visit. Pts felt more “cared for”: