News & Announcements

January 20, 2011

St.Vincent Rehabilitation Therapies achieves unique milestone on Patient-Reported Outcomes

Complete Focus on Therapeutic Outcomes (FOTO®) data are now being collected on approximately 60 percent of all physical and occupational therapy patients receiving treatment at St.Vincent Rehabilitation Therapies clinics, compared with the typical 30 percent collected by other physical and occupational therapy providers in the FOTO database.

“FOTO outcomes data are beneficial because they provide a benchmark measure for overall quality and value of the services offered by an organization,” said St.Vincent Rehabilitation Therapies Director Catherine Middleton. “FOTO is the nation’s largest database and reporting service for physical and occupational therapy providers. It provides outcomes of care including patient-reported improvement in function and satisfaction related to their physical or occupational therapy experience.” St.Vincent efforts to achieve this goal have been driven by our value of integrity in data collection.

"We are proud that our FOTO outcomes have been consistently higher than the national benchmark since 2002, and we received Outcomes Excellence Awards from FOTO for many consecutive years,” said Middleton. “We have raised the bar on integrity in collection of patient-reported outcomes in outpatient physical and occupational therapy. In the midst of our nation’s healthcare reform, our patients, physicians, payers and even policymakers are looking to us, the practitioners, to provide accurate data on relevant outcomes of care.”