Featured Session

Cross-Cutting

FEATURED SESSION: U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals for Rehabilitation: Recent Changes and Future Directions (live panel discussion at 2:25 PM ET) (840582)

Presenter(s)

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  Ben Harder

  Chief of Health Analysis and Managing Editor
  U.S. News & World Report

Moderator(s)

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  Gerben DeJong, PhD, FACRM

  Senior Fellow & Professor
  MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital
  Georgetown University School of Medicine
  Naples, Florida

Panelist(s)

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  Sarah Morrison, PT, MBA, MHA

  CEO
  Shepherd Center
  Atlanta, Georgia
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  Christine M. MacDonell, FACRM

  Managing Director, Medical Rehabilitation and International Aging Services
  CARF International
  Tucson, Arizona
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  Ned Vickers, CBIS, GAL

  CEO
  The Greening Group LLC
  Olivebridge, New York
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  Elliot J. Roth, MD

  Attending Physiatrist
  Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
  Chicago, Illinois

In mid-2020, U.S. News & World Report updated its methodology for evaluating inpatient rehabilitation facilities. For the first time, U.S. News used data from CMS Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Compare, the American Hospital Association annual hospital survey, and other data sources to determine the Best Hospitals for Rehabilitation. These newly incorporated data complement the expert opinions of physiatrists, which U.S. News measures through its annual national physician survey. In this session, the head of the U.S. News data analysis team will review the recent changes to his publication’s public reporting program and will discuss future directions now under consideration. A panel of discussants with expertise in physical medicine and rehabilitation will offer candid feedback to U.S. News and provide perspectives on future methodology changes that could enhance measurement of IRF quality.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how the U.S. News methodology for rankings rehabilitation hospitals will change in 2021.
• Understand the forthcoming methodology change in the context of the U.S. News’ history and trajectory as a public reporting program.
• Gain familiarity with relationship between objective and subjective IRF quality data, and the new methodology’s anticipated impact on results.