June 2011 and compares it with 2012 through november 2013. So while our admits per a 1,000 went up. The flu epidemic we had. Everybody in the city, there was a bed shortage for the first time in a long time. Our days per thousand, hospital days per 1,000. It speaks to the management to better coordination of their care in the outpatient setting. The average length of stay similarly. The average length of stay is down 10 percent which is remarkable. 30day readmission rate is down 7. 2 percent. We are not the only organization that has inspired the attention to readmissions. Medicare certainly had a lot to do with that but this means our members arent being discharged early, if they are being discharged, not early, but in the right amount of time, the medical group and hospital make sure that member has what they need at home and to stay home. The medications are filled, they have the right ament amount of help and they are not having to figure out things on their own. And medical and so
Integrate their data and they report it out. And the idea that they are even reporting it to aco but also reporting it to their board of directors and they know if the prescription rate is above 70 percent and below and they work with their particular pigsz physicians to go through that metric. Im not going through all of these. Its a long process to go through them and they initiate the contract and they engage numbers in the physicians and employer and then we monitor the outcomes and assess how to improve integration. If you go page 9, i think our recent experience is probably tells an important story. This looks at the data from july 2010 to june 2011 and compares it with 2012 through november 2013. So while our admits per a 1,000 went up. The flu epidemic we had. Everybody in the city, there was a bed shortage for the first time in a long time. Our days per thousand, hospital days per 1,000. It speaks to the management to better coordination of their care in the outpatient setting
Programs that really serve our really diverse community, yes. If you looked in at the next slide it just gives you an idea of what were the kinds of programs that we believe. And that the council and this Design Committee and the work groups believe are crucial Long Term Care services and supports and it is a variety of things and it is pretty ininclusive and i would say. And then we go on to the next recommendations, you will see number nine talks about alzheimers and demen dementia and the resources that they will need regarding that Quality Assurance and going back to the Community Living fund and the deversion integration and both of those have Quality Assurance components to them and we want to be sure that the consumers are well served in the world of managed care and we want to have number eleven talk about new opportunities for providers to develop, integrated Business Models and you are going to be hearing more about this from sandy. That the work groups and the Design Committ
More for you on abc 7 news at 11 00 over offer channel 7. Good evening. Other top story here tonight. In novato 5 Police Officers have just been assigned to an area where an arsonist struck. There have been more than a dozen blazes all deliberately set between highway 101 and south novato boulevard. Wayne is on the story. Dry grass. High pressure and an arsonist in novato they have become a recipe for anger and concern. Its scary but it was here two years ago. We thought somebody in the neighborhood left now its back. What do you make of that. Its a disease obviously. Reporter is this morning monique echo the sentiment of most novato resident. 2 years ago 60 unsolved small arson fire frighten the community now what happened last night. 13 fires within a mile of each other burning simultaneously. 10 of the fires burned about grass. Thats a really, really about nut to swallow because we have a very tight knit community here. Homes are close together. We all know each other. Steven morris
Jazeera goes inside the country. A heated debate on capitol hill. For the first time, tom freeden faced a grilling from house lawmakers about the nations response to the virus, it comes amido other new developments the first nurse diagnosed with ebola will be taken to a specialized facility in maryland, thats happening tonight. And screens began today at four more airports for passengers arriving. Lets begin with with the details on that, a contentious hearing plenty of questions what about the answers. You know, there was that aspect to it, dr. Thomas freeden was on the hot seat here called for his resignation, but for someone to take the fall, after all responsibility, after all it was dr. Freed and many other whose have repeatedly assured the American People that the outbreak ha has so afflicted those three countries in west africa could not happen here. And yet it has happened there are two nurses that treated thomas eric duncan, the victim of the ebola virus, and now as you report