Tahoe Forest highlights gains on physician alignment, quality bundles; access-to-care remains a challenge

Tahoe Forest Hospital District leaders told the board they made measurable progress last year on several multi-year strategic goals but fell short on access-to-care targets.

At the meeting, Chief Executive Officer Anna Roth and Chief Operating Officer Louie Ward introduced a consolidated dashboard that aggregates the health system's five "peaks": community, service, quality, people and finance. The dashboard showed the system met several annual goals: community health initiatives increased, physician alignment rose from roughly the 10th percentile to about the 40th percentile (score rose from 3.1 to 3.7 on a 4-point scale), the hospital met CMS bundle compliance targets in most categories, patient satisfaction exceeded its goal (96.16% vs. a 95.55% target), and days cash on hand met the finance…