Targeted Priorities:

• Evidence-based clinical and functional care approaches for long Covid n nursing centers and/or assisted living communities
• Improving efficiency in obtaining functional change outcomes in nursing centers and/or assisted living communities
• Workforce issues impacting care delivery in nursing centers and/or assisted living communities 

Priority Topics:

• Impact of an embedded Nurse Practitioner on SNF hospital readmissions, length of SNF stay, and likelihood of a community dwelling person to return to community from skilled nursing
• Follow up after discharge home or back to the community to determine the effectiveness of therapy when they get home
• Effectiveness of telehealth in nursing centers and/or assisted living communities 
• Transitions of care across the continuum impacting nursing centers and/or assisted living communities   
• Safety in nursing centers and/or assisted living communities 
• Implementation of a mobility program in in nursing centers and/or assisted living communities

Priority Topics:

• Patient-Driven care plan design and the resulting impact on quality outcomes
• Variation in quality outcomes related to different payment models
• Unintended consequences of the coronavirus pandemic
• Policy changes during the coronavirus pandemic
• Policy and payment changes in the home health setting

Targeted Priority:

• Engage in national outcomes registry to understand quality outcomes

Priority Topics:

• Implementation and creation of sustainability of a mobility program in acute care setting
• Implementation of AM_PAC outcome measure tool in outpatient settings
• Optimizing utilization of Rehabilitation therapy services in acute care
• Disparities in access, quality, and outcomes of rehabilitation 
• Measurement of functional capacity across care transitions

Priority Topics:

• Transitions of care across the continuum, particularly from the acute hospital to home health care
• Targeting rehabilitation interventions to facilitate discharge from the hospital to home 
• Effectiveness of pre-habilitation in surgical care
• Using patient-reported outcomes to evaluate and improve outpatient rehabilitation
• Disparities in access, quality, and outcomes of rehabilitation
• Novel modalities for virtual rehabilitation and remote monitoring

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Targeted Priority:

• Health Equity Data Analytics

Priority Topics:

• Transitions of care across the continuum
• Value-based care pathways
• Health equity
• Implementation of a mobility program in acute care
• Effectiveness of rehabilitation for high-need / high-cost patients
• Team-based models of care, care coordination
• Telehealth during and after the coronavirus pandemic
• Integrating evidence-based decision support into an EHR
• Use of technology to improve care delivery

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Pediatric-Focused Priority Topics: 

• Effectiveness of a pediatric-therapy first model on patient outcomes across the ICF model, healthcare spending, and utilization
• Implications of clinician specialization on pediatric outcomes
• Internal quality improvement initiatives related to parent perception of quality of care
• Outcomes related to key rehabilitation interventions, patient factors, and provider characteristics
• Parent-reported outcomes associated with the implementation of the coaching model through telehealth as an adjunct to traditional service delivery for pediatric patients
• Effectiveness of digital-health technologies integrated into outpatient pediatric rehabilitation care plans on patient outcomes and healthcare spend

 Adult-Ortho Focused Priority Topics:

• Effectiveness of PT-first care models on patient outcome, healthcare spend, and utilization
• Effectiveness of digital-health technologies integrated into outpatient rehabilitation care plans on patient outcomes and healthcare spend
• Using patient-reported outcomes to evaluate and improve outpatient rehabilitation
• Use of patient demographics, characteristics, and clinical data to personalize care delivery for improved patient outcomes

Pediatric-Focused Priority Topics:

• Development of Pediatric Activity and Mobility Promotion effort for the Acute Hospital including development of standardized tools and implementation of the JH-AMP framework adapted to pediatrics.
• Implementation of systematic approach to mobility in the acute care hospital inclusive of pediatrics.

General Priority Topics:

• Implementation of systematic approach to mobility in the acute care hospital inclusive of pediatrics.
• Precision Rehabilitation: Using high information content measurement to personalize rehabilitation interventions across the healthcare continuum
• Effectiveness of innovative care delivery models prior to surgery especially for geriatric populations
• Development of rehabilitation models of care to reduce skilled nursing facility utilization

Priority Topics:

• Post-Acute site(s) for optimal patient outcomes
• Transitions of care across the continuum
• Effectiveness of rehabilitation for high-need / high-cost patients
• Team-based models of care, care coordination
• Unintended consequences of the coronavirus pandemic

Priority Topics:

• Standardizing clinical care for real-time visualization and application of EHR data
• Using large databases to track & improve rehabilitation outcomes
• Disparities in access, quality, and outcomes of rehabilitation
• Patient-Reported Outcome Measures
• Risk of chronic disease after trauma
• Maximizing outcomes and discharge to the community
• Evaluating alternative nursing workflows to maximize patient outcomes

Priority Topics:

• Evaluation and development of a telehealth protocol for assistive technology
• Implementation of a streamlined data collection process (on assistive technology) in clinical practice
• Development of a new wheelchair prescription policy for seating and mobility clinics

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UPMC’s Center for Rehabilitation Services (UPMC CRS)

Priority Topics:

• Effectiveness of a mobility program in acute care
• Hospital outcomes of patients receiving acute care PT during the pandemic  
• Using outcome measures in acute care to identify at risk patients post-acutely  
• Transitions of care across the continuum
• Effectiveness of rehabilitation for high-need / high-cost patients
• Adherence to clinical practice guideline recommendations and associated clinical outcomes

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UPMC’s Innovative Homecare Solutions (UIHS)

Priority Topics:

• Efficient use of rehabilitation services in the home health setting
• Use of technology in the home health setting to augment or as a substitute for nurse and/or therapist care
• Moving traditionally hospital based care into the home setting