T. Clifford Deveny, MD has been appointed as president of Locus Health, effective on November 7, after having served for the past five years as senior vice president for physician services and clinical integration for Catholic Health Initiatives, the nation's third-largest nonprofit health system. The system is comprised of 103 hospitals operating in 19 states.
Locus Health has developed a suite of software and services that allows providers to deliver remote patient care for a wide range of children and adults. The platform currently supports episodic, bundled and chronic care management programs at the University of Virginia Health System and the Rothman Institute in Philadelphia.
In a statement, Deveny described Locus' remote care platform as one of the things he looks forward to upon taking the helm, calling it a "compelling solution" and adding that he looks forward to helping the company "expand its current programs" and develop new ones.
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Data from the University of Virginia over the past three years has shown a greater than 40 percent reduction in readmissions for patients monitored by Locus Health. The Charlottesville-based company also offers consulting services to hospital C-suites in designing programs focused on lowering costs while simultaneously improving patient outcomes.
Throughout his career, Deveny has been a strong advocate for including clinicians in the development of programs, believing that engagement is essential to success.
While at CHI, Deveny helped develop initiatives to support its transition from a hospital company to a healthcare organization, and meet the challenges of healthcare's shift to value-based care models.
His accomplishments included establishing multi-state, clinically integrated networks, as well as developing and expanding national service lines for orthopedic and spine, cardiovascular, oncology and hospital medicine services. He also played a key role in developing and growing CHI's physician enterprise and management services organization, as well as improving the operational and clinical performance of its ambulatory-based primary care services.
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