Project Description
A Mobile Solution for Program Site Visit Reviews
A Healthcare Case Study
OVERVIEW
As a healthcare and human services company, Sevita regularly reviews each of its program sites to conduct performance and compliance evaluations. Historically inconsistent in execution, team members also found these visits difficult to document effectively.
Sevita used Onspring to create a mobile-friendly method of conducting reviews. This streamlined and structured the review process to provide consistency for all teams across the country.
In addition to improved intelligence gathering, Sevita’s management gained real-time visibility of each site’s performance and regulatory compliance.
“Onspring’s ability to customize each of our site reviews to account for state-specific question sets has made the process so much more streamlined and effective.”
– Dina Itkin, Director of Quality Reporting & Analytics
Challenge
The process Sevita Program Directors followed to conduct reviews of each program site was inconsistent and inefficient.
A series of questions and answer evaluations would vary by each program’s location because of variances in state regulations. Program Directors did not have a unified system for collecting and documenting evidence, such as photographs.
Overall, the process was manual, paper-heavy, and incredibly unfriendly for traveling fieldwork. All of this led to an increased risk for errors and unintended mismanagement of documentation.
Using Onspring, Sevita launched a pilot program in one state to build a scalable and synchronized process flexible enough to account for nuances in state-level regulations, while providing accurate and up-to-date reporting.
Solution
An application in Onspring fully manages program site visit reviews in all states and across multiple review categories:
- Physical environment
- Health & safety
- Individual service plans
- Funds
- Behavior support plans
- Community life
- Supervisory oversight
Business Requirements:
- The solution must be flexible, efficient & simple to use for everyone.
- Reviews must be easy to complete with documented photos and the ability to assign follow-up tasks for remediation.
- Detailed reporting must be available for management to tack reviews by location, reviewer, and status.
- The mobile component must provide reviewers the ability to walk around a location with a list of site-specific assessment questions.
Managing location reviews in Onspring
Before conducting a program site visit review, two inputs are required by the reviewer for Onspring to serve up only the evaluation questions relevant.
The benefits of these two selections:
- Remove potential human error
- Ensures all aspects of the review are not overlooked
- Reduces the time to complete reviews
Input 1: Review Types
This determines the first layer of questions to serve the reviewer based on regulations and service lines.
Input 2: Location
This adds the second layer of questions to serve the reviewer based on geographic location and operating group.
Tracking program reviews in Onspring
As questions are answered, any ‘No’ responses are marked as non-compliant and trigger an automatic notification with a task assigned for follow-up.
Status bars reflect percent complete and percent compliant as each question is answered in the review.
While the review is being conducted, management can view the data in real-time from a dashboard.
Results
After a successful pilot program, program site visit reviews are now conducted in Onspring across all 50 states, with additional state-specific reviews being added, such as nursing and maintenance reviews, plus company-wide network performance reviews.
Reporting Improvements
Real-time at-a-glance views into the status of program site visit completions & outstanding tasks
Sevita management automatically receives reports on team activity & progress
Process Improvements
Standardized documents, consistent process & detailed reporting
Accurately and easily accounts for regulatory variables by state, service line & regulatory body
Easier method to conduct reviews in fieldwork & assign tasks to owners
Improved task completion rate after program site review visits
Ad hoc task assignment allows reviewers to assign required tasks outside the scope of the review
Photograph attachments simplified verification of outstanding tasks
All Onspring Solutions in Use by Sevita
- Risk management
- Policy management
- Regulatory compliance
- Government relations compliance
- Corporate governance
- Legal entity management
- Environment, social & governance (ESG)
- Mobile program site audits
- Employee Safety
- CARES Act funding
- Acquisition tracking
- Licensure database
- Insurance policy management
- Emergency preparedness
- Disaster recovery
- IT controls