Henry Ford Rehab: Principles of Value-Based Care

Course Description: This course will provide an overview of what it means to practice value-based care in the acute care hospital setting.  Value-based documentation and productivity will also be reviewed.

Course Objectives

1. Identify background and influences that can lead to value based practice
2. Outline tools to empower therapists to advocate for appropriate utilization of PT services
3. Explore various methods for value based practices

Presenter: Adele Myszenski, MPT is an experienced physical therapist, researcher, and rehab supervisor at Henry Ford Hospital. Adele’s experience in performance and organizational management has led to the development of a clinical competency program for general and advanced practice in the hospital setting that is utilized by all four hospitals within our system and has been shared directly with over 250 hospitals across the country. In the past decade, she has led the transition to the EPIC electronic health record for Allied Health across the system, developed multiple novel pathway programs including what may be the first transcatheter aortic valve replacement (tAVR) clinical pathway and successfully launched an early rehab program that has included the addition of over 40 therapists and now provides PT and OT services within 12-24 hours of medical stability for over 180 intensive care unit beds at HFH and another 60 at our community hospitals. An accomplished speaker, she has provided sessions at APTA’s CSM for 6 years, MPTA Fall conference and APTA State Forum, as well as webinars for PT.com, OT.com and PTLocker via MPTA. Current areas of research include: early rehabilitation in the critical care patient, transcatheter aortic valve replacement and the impact of PT and OT on patients with COVID-19 which is funded by a 2021 Foundation of PT Research Acute Care grant.   Adele also teaches Introduction to Research at Wayne State University, DPT Program, Wayne State University.