Collective Medical Appoints Steven Goldschmidt to Lead Post-Acute Expansion

Goldschmidt to accelerate the onboarding of post-acute care providers
across the country onto the Collective Network

SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/SNF?src=hash” target=”_blank”gt;#SNFlt;/agt;–Collective
Medical delivering the nation’s largest and most effective network
for care collaboration, today announced the appointment of Steven
Goldschmidt as vice president of post-acute network development. In this
role, Goldschmidt is focused on accelerating the nationwide onboarding
of post-acute providers onto the Collective Network™, including skilled
nursing facilities, home health organizations and other long-term care
organizations.

Post-acute providers gain near-immediate value from joining Collective’s
nationwide network, which covers all points of care including emergent,
inpatient, behavioral health providers, ambulatory clinics, ACOs and
health plans. In
a recent story, Skilled Nursing News reported that in less
than six months of joining the Collective Network, Marquis Companies, a
skilled nursing provider in the Pacific Northwest, realized a 60 percent
reduction in readmissions.

“There’s an energy and momentum around Collective within all audiences
of the healthcare industry, including SNFs, hospitals, accountable care
organizations and behavioral health settings,” says Goldschmidt. “I’ve
witnessed firsthand the challenges SNFs and home health providers face
when coordinating with other organizations on high-risk patients. I’m
proud to be a part of the solution.”

Goldschmidt joins Collective as a post-acute healthcare technology
veteran. Before joining Collective, Goldschmidt established himself as
the senior director of sales at SigmaCare. He went on to become vice
president of enterprise sales at MatrixCare. His experience in handling
rapid scaling within the post-acute sector is invaluable as Collective
continues to rapidly onboard healthcare organizations across the country
to remove friction from transitions of care for improved patient
outcomes and decreased hospital readmissions.

“The transition of care between an acute setting and a SNF can mean all
the difference in a patient’s outcome,” says Chris Klomp, CEO of
Collective Medical. “Care teams on our network continue to use the
insights delivered via the Collective Platform to demonstrate incredible
improvements related to transitions of care and avoidable readmissions.
This, in turn, reduces cost both for the patient and the broader
healthcare system. Steven is a force in the post-acute sector—his
experience, horsepower and tenacity are incredible assets to Collective.
We’re so pleased to have him on our team.”

The Collective Network and Platform are supporting dramatic improvements
in reducing avoidable readmissions. As an example, Legacy Salmon Creek
Medical Center of Tacoma, Wash., was able to reduce
its all-cause readmissions rate by nearly 25 percent over 24 months.
It did this through a program supported by Collective technology
enabling frictionless collaboration with community providers.

Inadequate care transitions – especially transitions between care
settings – create greater financial risk for providers and poorer
outcomes for patients. In general, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services found that almost 20 percent of Medicare patients were
readmitted to a hospital within 30 days, costing more than $26 billion
per year. This massive issue can be attributed to the communication gap
between the different branches of our healthcare system.

Collective Medical is endorsed as a best practice for emergency medicine
by the American College of Emergency Physicians. The company has been
recognized by Inc. Magazine and by the MountainWest Capital Network as
one of Utah’s fastest growing companies.

Learn more about Collective’s impact at www.collectivemedical.com.

ABOUT COLLECTIVE MEDICAL

Collective Medical empowers care teams to improve patient outcomes by
closing the communication gaps that undermine patient care. With a
nationwide network engaged with every national health plan in the
country, hundreds of hospitals and health systems and tens of thousands
of providers, Collective’s system-agnostic platform is trusted by care
teams to identify at-risk and complex patients and facilitate actionable
collaboration to make better care decisions and improve outcomes. Based
in Salt Lake City, Collective is proven to streamline transitions of
care, improve coordination across diverse care teams, and reduce
medically unnecessary hospital admissions. Learn more at www.collectivemedical.com
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Contacts

For Collective Medical
Kat McDavitt
Chief Marketing Officer
kat.mcdavitt@collectivemedical.com
610-392-4726