DENVER, June 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- DaVita HealthCare
Partners Inc. (NYSE: DVA), one of the nation's largest and most
innovative health care communities, today announced the release of
its 2014 Community Care report, which highlights key clinical,
operational and corporate social responsibility (CSR) achievements
in 2014.
"In all corners of our Village – whether it's a dialysis center
in Saudi Arabia or an urgent care
facility in Los Angeles – the
spirit of caring for each other, our patients and our communities
is alive and well," said Kent Thiry,
co-chairman and CEO of DaVita HealthCare Partners.
The report, available at DaVita.com/CommunityCare, outlines
DaVita's approach for CSR, called the Trilogy of Care: Caring for
Our Patients, Caring for Each Other and Caring for Our World. This
approach is what drives industry-leading clinical outcomes,
multiple goodwill initiatives and a robust environmental
commitment. Highlights from the 2014 report include the
following.
Caring for Our Patients
The Kidney Care and HealthCare Partners divisions of DaVita
HealthCare Partners together support more than 1 million primary
and specialty care patients through an integrated care model that
focuses on the whole patient, not just the disease. DaVita's
innovative clinical programs help to coordinate all facets of
health, including diet, medications, patient education and
emotional support to improve clinical outcomes, reduce healthcare
costs and enhance patient quality of life.
Leading Industry Quality
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Five-Star Quality
Rating System recognized DaVita as the highest rated among all
major dialysis providers. DaVita Kidney
Care outperformed the industry average by 138 percent, with
50 percent of clinics earning a four- or five-star rating.
HealthCare Partners was also recognized in 2014 for outstanding
clinical measures. The Integrated Healthcare Association awarded
HCP a rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars for quality of care provided to
Medicare Advantage patients in California. This was one of the highest
ratings across all California
physician organizations.
Paladina Health
Paladina Health, a primary care subsidiary of DaVita Healthcare
Partners provides a patient-centric approach and 24/7 access to
personal physicians. Paladina submits information to CMS
known as the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set
(HEDIS). In 2014, Paladina's Clinical Excellence program exceeded
the HEDIS 90th percentile in hypertension management—a commercial
HMO benchmark for quality.
International
DaVita Kidney Care is committed
to elevating the health and quality of life for patients around the
world. In 2014 DaVita celebrated the accreditation of a dialysis
center in Malaysia—the first-ever dialysis center to be accredited
in the country. DaVita was also recognized in India as the Dialysis Service Provider Company
of the Year.
Clinical Initiatives
DaVita Kidney Care made strides
in four Quality of Life programs that focus on fluid, medication,
infection and diabetes management for kidney care patients.
HealthCare Partners has worked to help primary and specialty
care patients achieve their best possible health through a number
of innovative programs and initiatives, including:
- Transitions of Care: Decrease unnecessary hospital
readmissions.
- Flu Vaccinations: Aim to vaccinate 70 percent of patients and
90 percent of teammates.
- Hypertension: Work to achieve blood pressure control for at
least 75 percent of hypertensive patients.
Caring for Each Other
DaVita provides unique opportunities for teammates to succeed at
work and at home through leadership courses, professional
development, education scholarships for children and grandchildren,
and support in times of crisis.
DaVita's Village Vitality program offers teammates multiple
tools for making healthy choices including:
- Free biometric screenings at work sites
- Stress-management courses
- Tobacco-use cessation programs
- Challenges such as Match the Mayor, a six-week program in which
teammates try to match Chairman and CEO Kent Thiry in adding a variety of fruits and
vegetables to their daily meals.
DaVita Village Network
The DaVita Village Network gives teammates the opportunity to
help each other during times of crisis, such as a natural disaster,
an accident or an illness. Teammates can make payroll
contributions, which DaVita provides funding to match up to
$250,000 per year.
Developing Leaders
In 2014, a record-breaking number of teammates attended DaVita
University's award-winning classes for teammate development.
Through DaVita University's School of Leadership, School of
Clinical Education and Village Gatherings, DaVita directly touched
more than 22,600 teammates in 2014. DaVita University also launched
a dozen new and innovative leadership and educational programs,
expanded the availability of distance learning and rolled out
leadership and development programs to international teammates in
multiple countries.
DaVita Way
DaVita Way Days and Monthly
Activities introduce teammates to DaVita's Core Values and various
symbols and traditions for celebrating success. Teammates learn how
to create and lead DaVita Way activities in their centers and
offices.
Caring for Our World
DaVita is working to improve the lives of patients, the regions
in which DaVita operates and those in need throughout the world by
examining and reducing the company's environmental impact,
performing international medical missions, offering health
screenings and pursuing philanthropic endeavors.
DaVita Way of Giving
DaVita continued its long tradition of supporting local
communities this year by making charitable contributions across the
nation through the DaVita Way of Giving. As part of the program,
teammates in centers chose more than 950 nonprofits and community
organizations to receive more than $1.6
million in 2014. The program has donated a total of
$4 million since it began. In
HealthCare Partners' first year with DaVita Way of Giving, 46
clinics in four states donated to 38 different charities.
Home-State Engagement
In addition to $1.6 million in
nationwide giving, DaVita HealthCare Partners contributed more than
$1.3 million in donations to 90
nonprofits and community groups in Denver, where the company is
headquartered.
KT Community Foundation
The KT Community Foundation funds teammate-led projects that
make a difference in teammates' local communities and overseas. To
date, the KT Community Foundation has funded more than $367,000 for such projects.
Village Service Days
Since 2006, DaVita Kidney Care
teammates and their families and friends have volunteered more than
79,000 hours through 1,470 Village Service Days community service
projects. HealthCare Partners and Paladina Health teammates also
participate in a variety of volunteer projects and events specific
to their communities.
Community Efforts
More than 60 HealthCare Partners care sites and administrative
offices in California participated
in a variety of service projects in 2014. These included literacy
programs, collecting blankets for tsunami victims and food for
children in need, building prosthetic hands and organizing hygiene
kits for women's shelters, among others.
Sustainability
DaVita HealthCare Partners continues to help improve patients'
health and quality of life while reducing our environmental
footprint. In 2010, DaVita established environmental goals for the
Kidney Care division to achieve by the end of 2015, and is on track
to do so.
- Reduce energy consumption by 15 percent per treatment.
DaVita Kidney Care has reduced
energy consumption by 6 percent per treatment across the country.
In 2014, a Building Management Systems pilot launched in 150
centers and we anticipate a 10 percent energy reduction through
improvements in temperature controls and set points.
- Reduce water consumption by 10 percent per treatment.
Since 2007, DaVita Kidney Care has
reduced water consumption in clinics by 30 percent per treatment.
Through the efforts of DaVita Kidney
Care's biomedical team to optimize the frequency and
duration of the water used in the pre-treatment filtration
processes, our centers have, on average, reduced gallons per month
by 20 percent from 2013 to 2014.
- Reduce office paper consumption by 20 percent.
DaVita Kidney Care has reduced paper
consumption in centers and offices by 5 percent. Various avenues,
including Print to PDF, electronic signatures for contracts and
e-faxing capabilities have enabled teammates to move toward more
paperless processes.
- Increase environmentally preferable procurement by 10
percent.
DaVita Kidney Care continues to
increase its environmentally preferable procurement through
partnerships with vendors and purchases of environmentally friendly
products when available. In 2014 we refurbished more than 1,300
dialysis machines. This prevents hundreds of thousands of pounds of
plastic and metal from going to the landfill.
- Add one teammate education program each year.
DaVita Kidney Care has added more
than one new educational program each year. These programs include
events such as green fairs, which educate teammates about
sustainability at work and at home. Quarterly criteria were
provided for Green Champions, focusing on engaging teammates about
energy and paper reduction at their center.
Additionally, DaVita continues to develop processes and
protocols to minimize the environmental impact of medical wastage
created by necessities associated with patient care – e.g.,
dialyzers, protective gear, needles, syringes, medication vials,
etc.
To learn more about DaVita's approach to corporate social
responsibility, please visit DaVita.com/CommunityCare.
Contact Information
Media:
Elizabeth Young
(303) 876-2855
Elizabeth.J.Young@davita.com
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