INTERACT II - Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers

What is INTERACT II?

INTERACT II is an acronym for "Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers". The interventions include clinical and educational tools and strategies for use in every day practice in long-term care facilities.

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INTERACT II Tools

Educational Resources for INTERACT II

What is the purpose of the INTERACT II?

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INTERACT II is designed to improve the early identification, assessment, documentation, and communication about changes in the status of residents in skilled nursing facilities. The goal of INTERACT II is to improve care and reduce the frequency of potentially avoidable transfers to the acute hospital. Such transfers can result in numerous complications of hospitalization, and billions of dollars in unnecessary health care expenditures.

	One in 4 Medicare patients admitted to skilled nursing facilities from hospitals is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days?
	Up to 2/3 of hospital transfers are rated as potentially avoidable by expert long-term care health professionals?
	Medicare is planning financial incentives to reduce potentially avoidable hospital transfers through pay-for-performance, bundled payments, and other strategies?
	INTERACT II can help you improve care and prepare for these changes in Medicare reimbursement?

The INTERACT II Tools, educational materials, and implementation strategies were developed by Drs. Joseph Ouslander, Gerri Lamb, Alice Bonner, and Ruth Tappen, and Laurie Herndon with input from a variety of direct care providers and national experts in a project supported by the Commonwealth Fund based at Florida Atlantic University.

Initial versions of the INTERACT Tools were developed by Dr. Ouslander and Mary Perloe, MS, GNP at the Georgia Medical Care Foundation with the support of a special study contract from CMS.

Pictures courtesy of Dan Osterweil, MD, CMD and Mass Senior Care

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