This is Session 4 — the final session — of the SMART for TEAM webinar series.
Where earlier sessions focused on the clinical case for bone-health optimisation, this session turns to the institutional side of CMS TEAM implementation: what actually has to change operationally for a hospital or health system to succeed under the model.
The discussion covers concrete operational levers, including earlier mobilisation protocols (working with nursing leadership to get patients moving without waiting on a formal physical therapy evaluation), optimising the criteria under which patients are prescribed skilled nursing versus acute rehab care, reducing 30-day readmissions, and expanding patient navigator services — all framed as the kind of coordinated, cross-functional work that requires genuine C-suite buy-in, not just frontline clinical effort.
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What you'll learn
Topics covered include operational and staffing changes needed for successful CMS TEAM implementation, the specific role of institutional leadership in enabling those changes, and practical strategies for reducing readmissions and improving post-acute care coordination.
Featuring
Dr. Rita Roy, MD
CEO of the National Spine Health Foundation
Dr. William Curry
Chief Medical Officer of the Academic Medical Centers (AMC’s), Mass General Brigham
Dr. Ganesh Shankar
Chief of Neurosurgery Spine at Mass General Brigham; Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School
