As healthcare leaders, we know elective surgeries are never “routine.” Outcomes, efficiency, and costs depend heavily on how well patients are prepared before they ever reach the operating room. That is the essence of prehabilitation: a proactive, evidence-based process of assessing and optimizing a patient’s health status before surgery to reduce avoidable risk and improve recovery.
Prehabilitation: A Strategic
Lever for TEAM Success
The Role of Prehabilitation
Prehabilitation goes beyond standard pre-op clearance. It is an integrated approach combining assessment, education, and targeted intervention to address modifiable risks before surgery. Evidence shows that prehabilitation reduces complications, lowers readmissions and length of stay, prevents costly day-of cancellations, and improves both recovery and patient satisfaction.
Why It Matters in the TEAM Model
The CMS TEAM Model emphasizes coordinated, whole-person care and cost efficiency across settings. Prehabilitation aligns directly with these priorities by:
Reducing cancellations and delays through proactive risk identification.
Preventing post-op complications and readmissions, improving outcomes and protecting quality scores.
Engaging patients in their care, enhancing satisfaction and experience.
Maximizing system efficiency, ensuring surgical and post-acute resources are used effectively.
How Your Health Strengthens Hospital Partners
Your Health is uniquely positioned to extend hospital teams by delivering prehabilitation where patients live. This may include:
Respiratory optimization: CPAP adherence checks to ensure anesthesia safety.
Skin and wound assessments: Identifying risks that commonly trigger cancellations.
Chronic disease stabilization: Focused interventions for diabetes, COPD, and heart failure.
Lifestyle interventions: Coaching patients on SNAP (Smoking, Nutrition, Alcohol, and Physical activity) risk factors to reduce modifiable risks.
Seamless post-acute care: Transitional care management and specialty follow-up to reduce readmissions.
The Strategic Value for TEAM Participants
By embedding Your Health’s prehabilitation and transitional care services, health systems gain:
Stronger quality performance under TEAM.
Higher OR utilization and preserved revenue.
Fewer penalties tied to readmissions and complications.
A single, integrated partner for both pre- and post-acute needs.
Conclusion
Prehabilitation is not just preparation. It is risk reduction, value creation, and patient-centered care. Within the TEAM model, it is a strategic imperative. Your Health brings the expertise and integration to help systems prepare patients for surgery, ensure safer recoveries, and achieve the outcomes that matter most to patients and hospitals alike.
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