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Managing Chronic Conditions in Primary Care During COVID-19 May 21, 2020 10-11am PDT 1 Agenda Welcome and information Polling questions OHSU Hillsboro IM and Q&A Springfield Family Physicians and Q&A


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Managing Chronic Conditions in Primary Care During COVID-19

May 21, 2020 10-11am PDT

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Agenda

  • Welcome and information
  • Polling questions
  • OHSU Hillsboro IM and Q&A
  • Springfield Family Physicians and Q&A
  • Polling questions and discussion
  • Resources

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Presenters

  • Summer Boslaugh, Oregon Health Authority, Transformation

Analyst

  • Martha Snow, OHSU Oregon Rural Practice-Based Research

Network, Project Manager

  • Tonya Magwood, OHSU Hillsboro Internal Medicine, Practice

Manager & Medical Home Coordinator

  • Kadie Kokkeler, Springfield Family Physicians, Assistant

Administrator

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Hillsboro Internal Medicine

  • Location: Hillsboro (urban)
  • Type: Health System
  • Staff: 4 providers, 1 acute

provider, 1 LCSW, 6 Certified Medical Assistants, 1 Panel Coordinator, 1 Heathplan Coordinator, 2 Medical Receptionists

  • Patients: 3,000

(average age 75 years old)

  • EHR: Epic
  • Insurance: mostly

Medicare/Medicaid Presenter: Tonya Magwood, Practice Manager & Medical Home Coordinator

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Before COVID19: Management of Chronic Conditions

  • Patients with diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and/or high risk

– Risk tiers determined via 2 step risk stratification

  • Step 1: EHR algorithmic stratification into four risk tiers
  • Step 2: Clinician intuition to modify
  • 1 Panel Coordinator for approximately1500 patients

– Monitor care gaps – Routine preventative care and chronic condition outreach

  • CMAs

– Care Plan outreach – ED and IP follow-up and education

  • Provider education and outreach

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  • COVID19 testing site
  • In-person visit workflow modifications

– Restricted office hours (≈5 patients/day) – Patients chronically ill with respiratory symptoms – 30 minutes between patients

  • Expanded telehealth via MyChart

– Frontline staff to providers work with patients to set up accounts

  • Rotation of daily MA assignment to identify pending accounts and outreach

– Medicare Wellness visits – Partnered with care facilities to assist with technology

  • Patients’ care management

– Identify care gaps – Checks on mental health and referrals to LCSW – Prescription refills

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Early COVID19: Management of Chronic Conditions

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  • Cohort prioritization for in-person visits

– Clinicians reviewing empaneled patients’ risk scores and visit type needed (in-person, telephone, video) – Developing verbiage/script to help patients feel comfortable coming back

  • Maintain telehealth

– TBD long-term volume – Both staff and patients enjoy benefits

  • Transportation not a barrier
  • More accommodating to work day schedules
  • Refining strategies for chronic conditions

– Utilizing MyChart patient self-report and tracking feature more – Discussing recent lifestyle challenges from social distancing – Updating Care Plans – Increasing use and tracking of home blood pressure monitoring

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Coexisting with COVID19: Management of Chronic Conditions

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  • Updating cohort prioritization for in-person visits
  • Potential long-term challenges to telehealth

– Patients transparency with home measurements, e.g., weight, diet – Access to and correct use of home blood monitoring devices – Resistance to in-person visits

  • Fluctuations in COVID19 testing demands with re-entry into

workplaces

  • Balancing access to care without being too restrictive
  • Exploring home visits
  • Impact to provider and staff

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Coexisting with COVID19: Ongoing Problem-Solving

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Questions?

Enter into question box

POLICY AND ANALYTICS Transformation Center

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Springfield Family Physicians

  • Location: Springfield (urban)
  • Type: 3 Independent clinics
  • Staff: 17 Clinicians, 3

Pharmacists, 2 Care Managers, 5 Behavioral Health Specialists

  • Patients: 25,000
  • EHR: eClinicalWorks (eCW)
  • Insurance:

– Centennial Location: 90% Medicaid – Marcola & Timber Valley Locations: Commercial, Medicare, Medicaid

Presenter: Kadie Kokkeler, Assistant Administrator

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Before COVID19: Management of Chronic Conditions

  • In-person appts with clinicians
  • Co-visits with pharmacists ( including insulin titration for diabetics)
  • Care Managers support ~ 40 patient panel and care plans

– Coordination with pharmacists and behavioral health staff – Follow-up phone calls

  • Designated pharmacist and MA for annual wellness visits
  • Nurses support anticoagulation clinic
  • No telehealth implemented

– Started looking into telehealth features prior COVID-19 due to pharmacist request for comprehensive medication management

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  • Patients prioritized in-person visits

– Overall visit volume: 60%

  • In-person visit workflow modifications

– Screening at front door – Sanitizing all surfaces and rooms during the day – Urgent care provider designated as respiratory provider

  • Car/Tent visits

– Performing Car/tent visits for high-risk, sick, or respiratory patients – Established 2nd phone line for car respiratory checks – When the patient arrives, they call a direct line to be checked in and the provider see’s the patient out at their car

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Early COVID19: Modified Workflows

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COVID-19 Screening Protocol

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Patient Visit in Vehicle Protocol

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  • Expanded telehealth through eCW Healow app
  • Telehealth (audio/video) visits with medical providers, behavioral

health specialists, and pharmacists

– ~ 20% of visits initially through telehealth

  • 90-95% visits through telehealth for other primary care practices in IPA

– Start visit with video but if it disconnects, then do a phone call – eCW updated to provide automatic texting of weblinks to phone to easily access telehealth visit

  • Patients’ care management

– Faced dilemma of proper monitoring vs exposure risk

  • Discouraged patients with chronic conditions to come in
  • Staff experience

– Behavioral health staff sent out survey to monitor staff mental health

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Early COVID19: Management of Chronic Conditions

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Staff Mental Health Survey Results

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Staff Mental Health Survey Results

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Abbreviated: What kind of support would you like from our BH team?

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  • Providers asking about lifestyle habits, diet and exercise. Patients are

encouraged to be pay attention to these in light of social distancing.

  • Telehealth decline in past few weeks
  • Overall in-person visit volume up from 60 to now 70%
  • Patients lack confidence in monitoring health conditions (e.g. Monitoring

blood pressure)

  • Procedures that will continue

– Front door Screening – Vehicle visits – Telehealth

  • Especially if covered by Medicare

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Coexisting with COVID19: Management of Chronic Conditions

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  • Continuity of telehealth reimbursement

– Patients will continue to expect it, but future reimbursements uncertain

  • Determining if a visit is appropriate for telehealth or not

– Regular check/follow up can be via phone – Other visits may need to be in-person

  • Planning for Fall

– Heavily focused on annual wellness visits

  • Can these be completed through telehealth to keep high risk patients safe?

– Designate smaller clinic to serve patients with respiratory concerns (replace emergency car/tent structure)

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Coexisting with COVID19: Ongoing Problem-Solving

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Questions?

Enter into question box

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Resources

These materials will be emailed after the event:

  • Springfield Family Physicians protocols and workflows
  • OHSU Connected Care Center - managing adult and pediatric

patients with COVID-19

  • OPAL-C - confidential peer support for primary care clinicians

experiencing stress in response to COVID19 & psychiatric curbside consultations about adult and child patients

  • Upcoming Webinars for Primary Care Practices and Providers
  • Upcoming Training and Technical Assistance
  • Patient-Centered Primary Care Home Program specifications and

resources

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Post-event Survey

Please let us know how we can help! https://ohsu.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e2wF272LN73SqBD

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