Improving pathways for total hip and knee joint replacement has become a top strategic priority for many organizations. This isn't a new issue, but there is new urgency: The Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) mandatory bundled payments program puts more pressure on organizations to control increasing costs by reducing clinical variation.

Inpatient leaders must look beyond the four walls of the hospital and take a cross-continuum view to tackle this issue. Our toolkit supports you in two ways: first, we help you build an infrastructure to improve, then we guide you through implementing updated strategies that will optimize your joint replacement pathway.

Phase 1: Establish an infrastructure to support improvement

Step 1: Build your cross-continuum team and project blueprint

Step 2: Sharpen performance measurement to target new joint replacement priorities

Phase 2: Update your improvement strategies

Are you using a conventional approach to improve your joint replacement pathway? If you want to expand to a more progressive—and effective—approach, we've got you covered with resources and tools to support five updated strategies.