Each commitment was made to ensure more patients could receive high-quality, low-cost healthcare from the hospital to their home.
In the wake of devastating earthquakes, we committed to rebuild clinics and replicate our model in a new region where it was needed most.
Because we know hospital care alone cannot fully serve our patients' needs, we committed to expand our community health worker program.
When we saw technology could be a lever for better care, we committed to build the electronic health record and mobile tools to integrate care and prevent patients from falling through the cracks.
These were just a few of the commitments we made in 2016.
See the results of our commitments.
We put our patients first.
We embrace challenge with grit.
We treat efficiency as a moral must.
We think big.
We build simple.
We challenge conventional thinking.
We realize great design creates dignity.
We are transparent until it hurts.
We balance professional intensity with personal support.
We make commitments with integrity.
We believe everything is impossible, until it isn’t.
Possible's healthcare delivery model is designed to be comprehensive and guard against the shortcomings of more limited forms of care.
Providing only fragmented, acute care at hospitals does not do enough to improve health outcomes for the poorest. And even the most well-equipped community health workers are unable to address many drivers of morbidity and mortality without referrals to a strong network of facilities.
As a result, we focus on integrating care across hospitals and community health workers to create the kind of high-access, comprehensive care patients need. This approach also enables patients to be enrolled in a system of care that responds to their needs over time.
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Patient receives initial care from a professional community health worker or at a hospital.
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An electronic health record is created to enable effective follow-up care.
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Patient receives ongoing, comprehensive follow-up care from CHW or at hospital, depending on condition.
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Care is paid for by combination of government and philanthropic sources based on performance.
The rate of increase of patients treated continues to grow at each of our hospital hubs.
We are well aware this increase reflects volume, but not quality. But we also believe in paying attention to patients who are voting with their feet. Here are some of the ways patient care expanded in 2016.
PATIENTS TREATED SINCE FOUNDING
There was a 41% increase in the total number of patients treated at our hospital hubs in 2016. This was driven by increased patient volume at our first hospital and the addition of a second hospital halfway through the year.
ANTENATAL CARE PATIENTS
We support pregnancy planning by creating individual birth plans and helping women receive government cash reimbursements for their antenatal care visits. In 2016, we completed antenatal care visits with 2,598 expecting mothers.
BABIES DELIVERED
We more than doubled the number of safe deliveries in our hospitals in 2016 vs. 2015.
SURGICAL PROCEDURES
This year, there was a 23% increase in surgeries. We use this data to evaluate surgical usage and capacity, and to create a baseline for necessary follow-up.
General Follow-up at Outpatient Department
Post Surgery Follow-up
COPD Patient
We treated our 300,000th patient in January 2016 after seven years of operating Bayalpata Hospital through a public-private partnership.
We became the first nonprofit to independently manage a functioning government facility when we signed a 10-year public-private partnership agreement for Charikot Hospital.
We inaugurated Bayalpata Hospital as an official government drug-resistant tuberculosis center.
We passed ImpactMatters' new Impact Audit, independently verifying we deliver on evidence-based strategies, deserve funding, and have room to absorb more funding.
We expanded our Community Health Worker program to 7 additional village development committees, growing the total population receiving CHW-based care to nearly 60,000.
We launched a system that allows Community Health Workers to access patient records on smartphones and provides a geo-location for every household in our catchment area. We use this tool to survey and visualize health data for the population we serve in real time
The essence of our healthcare model is ensuring that quality care does not end when the patient leaves our hospital. Our integrated system centers on providing care from hospital to home, and is currently supported by 27 Community Health Workers (CHWs) who enroll patients in our electronic systems, perform triage, manage follow-up care, provide referrals, and run group community health initiatives in the remote areas surrounding our hospital hubs.
The group community initiatives include a focus on pregnant mothers and children. CHWs run group antenatal care meetings to provide expectant mothers with all the information and support they require to have a safe pregnancy and delivery. Following delivery, our CHWs facilitate group pediatric meetings for mothers and infants to monitor the health and development of children for the first year of their lives.
COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS
We increased our paid, full-time Community Health Workers from 20 to 27.
CHRONIC DISEASE PATIENTS
Our CHWs monitored and treated 1,804 chronic disease patients this year.
MOTHERS COMPLETED ANTENATAL CARE
This year, we had over 400 expectant mothers complete all four classes in the ANC program.
VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEES
We increased the VDCs our community health program works in from 14 to 21.
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Inpatient Department
Group Pediatrics
We hold ourselves accountable to healthcare quality and we made important advancements in measuring quality in 2016. Our healthcare KPIs have been consolidated from six to four indicators, based on the scientific evidence linking these KPIs to reduced morbidity and mortality.
These four KPIs were chosen because they can be feasibly collected in a rural area and reflect the overall strength of an integrated healthcare system. These KPIs serve as the basis for an early stage pay-for-outcomes model we have developed with government partners and drive change in our internal strategies.
Our healthcare KPIs are complemented by over 80 volume and process measures that we track monthly in an Impact Dashboard.
SURGERY ACCESS
Target: 95%
Outcome: A full set of resources and staff to perform surgeries were available everyday of the year.
CHRONIC DISEASE FOLLOW-UP
Target: 90%
Outcome: This means 50% of our total chronic disease patients had a follow-up interaction with a provider.
INSTITUTIONAL BIRTH*
Target: 95%
Outcome: 78% of women gave birth in a healthcare facility with a trained clinician in the past year.
*measured annually
CONTRACEPTIVE PREVALENCE*
Target: 40% uptake
Outcome: 45% of reproductive-aged women who delivered in the past two years are using contraceptive methods.
*measured annually
In 2016, we launched, expanded, and integrated several technologies to enable us to enroll patients in our catchment area, track patient care longitudinally, and digitally manage our supply chain.
We partnered with ThoughtWorks to implement Nepal’s first integrated Electronic Health Record (EHR), replacing an often costly and ineffective paper-based system. This year, we reopened Charikot Hospital following the earthquake, and rolled out the base EHR model in under 30 days at this second facility.
We expanded our EHR to integrate with OpenERP, a platform used to digitize all procurement and supply functions. This has allowed us to more efficiently track our stock levels and pull data to make more cost-effective purchase decisions for our hospitals.
Our integrated EHR extends beyond the walls of our hospital hubs. CHWs use an Android-based app called CommCare to access patient records in the field using mobile technology, allowing them to track follow-up care, and update patient records. To build our continuous surveillance system, we geotagged every house in our catchment area using the Android devices.
We added 67 team members in Dolakha District in 2016 and initiated a new integrated staffing model at Charikot Hospital where government-paid team members operate within Possible's management structure.
Growth in Full-Time Team Members
Team Members by Strategic Investment Area
Direct Delivery: 212
Public Private Partnerships: 18
Shared Services: 17
August 1, 2015–July 31, 2016
Revenue Total: $6.16 MM
EXPENSES Total: $5.60 MM
Revenue BY type
Company: $0.27 MM
Foundations: $3.75 MM
Individuals: $1.13 MM
Nepal Government: $0.93 MM
Research: $0.07 MM
EXPENSES by investment
Direct Delivery: $4.12 MM
Public Private Partnerships: $0.56 MM
Shared Services: $0.93 MM
Direct Delivery: These are the investments we make to directly deliver healthcare.
Public Private Partnerships: These are the investments we make to advance policy, improve governance, and generate evidence.
Shared Services: These are the
investments we make
to strengthen the
organization’s financial
and strategic standing.
*This financial overview represents the combined unaudited financials for the U.S. 501c3 and Nepal-based NGO. Audited financials will be available for each entity on our website as soon as the audits are completed.
We endeavor to bring the best global innovations to our patients, ensuring they receive the benefits of developments in medical science, management and technology. This year, Cathay Pacific Airways committed to our work by allowing our global team to travel to and from Nepal for free, so that we can put the money saved on airfare directly toward patient care.
“We are proud and privileged to work with an airline that is as committed to delivering healthcare to those who need it as they are to delivering a great flying experience to their customers.”
—Mark Arnoldy, CEO
One year after the Nepal earthquakes, The Atlantic team partnered with Cathay Pacific Airways to discover how the country was rebuilding its healthcare system, and the role our team has played in building it back differently. The three-part series is highlighted below.
Exactly one year later, here is the story on the major earthquakes that struck Nepal.
Read Now & Watch the VideoJourney to some of the most remote places where we work and reach patients.
Read Now & Watch the VideoHere, we explain how the key is building healthcare systems for the poor is fostering lifelong commitment.
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Jeff Kaplan
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Eswar Priyadarshan
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