The future healthcare environment will require greater accountability and justification to successfully advocate for patient services. Quantifiable, benchmarked patient improvement is the key. Outcomes Measurement allows your facility to measure, analyze, report and deliver cost-effective rehabilitation services. The Polaris System also provides you with a valuable quality assurance tool.

Outcomes Measurement and TransCare will help you:

• Manage costs associated with rehabilitation (per patient)
• Provide you with quality and cost information which will market your programs (especially to managed care and private payors)
• Provide information necessary to negotiate equitable HMO contracts
• Provide effective and efficient rehabilitation

TransCare is a model that helps clinicians to continue to deliver excellent patient care and achieve outcomes at an appropriate cost. The model provides a foundation for clinical decision making based on the most effective and efficient interventions. The result is clinically driven cost savings.

Outcomes measure the value of your rehabilitation services, and provides baseline measurements which demonstrate the necessity and success of rehabilitation.

Information available includes:

• Comparison of your facility's outcomes to industry benchmarks
• Admissions - How severely disabled are patients when rehabilitation begins?
• Length of Stay - How long do certain types of patients stay in rehabilitation?
• Treatment Outcomes - What are the functional gains of patients during rehabilitation?
• Post Rehabilitation - What percentage of patients were discharged to a more independent and less costly living environment?
• Financial - What charges are associated with reported patient outcomes?