Allison Roditi on Scaling Orthopedics and Outpatient Growth at Catholic Health
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What is the background of Allison Roditi and her role at Catholic Health?
This is Carly Beam with the Becker Spine and Orthopedics Podcast. And I'm thrilled to be joined today by Alison Raditi, Vice President of Orthopedics and Catholic Health. Alison, thank you so much for joining us today.
Thanks for having me, Carly. I'm excited to speak with you.
Absolutely. And before we dive to our questions, could you just introduce yourself and share a bit about your work?
Sure. I'm the Vice President for the Orthopedic Service Line at Catholic Health. We are a six-hospital health system based in Long Island, New York. We have about 17,000 employees, and we also have services spanning from rehabilitation, home health, hospice, ambulatory sites, ASCs, And we are, at least in orthopedics, we have a combination of folks who are employed in terms of physicians, as well as several large orthopedic groups that we partner with in our various hospitals. My three-year anniversary with Catholic Health is actually coming up next month.
Hey, congratulations. That's awesome. Thank you. One thing I'd love to touch on, and you mentioned you're working with practices and you have employed physicians. How are you, I guess, kind of keeping a cohesive culture and keeping physicians in the different settings feeling unified?
Yeah, so one of the things that we're focusing on right now, so I will just preface this with when I came to Catholic Health, we had about eight employed or nine employed physicians across the musculoskeletal spectrum. And one of my first orders of business was to start to boost that faculty a little bit, starting with our non-operative primary sports medicine physicians. We did not have any faculty who had that subspecialty training. So to flash forward to today, we have nearly 40 faculty on staff, which is a huge increase over three years. So we've really made an effort first to boost our faculty because that's always key and critical to have in any health system. And the second thing that we engaged in starting last year, we've been laying the groundwork and we will continue this into this year, is to work with our partners in these large orthopedic groups and partner with them on strategic initiatives at our hospitals.
So really trying to make them feel that we are all one team. It's not faculty versus voluntary. My goal, and I liken it to clothing, but it's like we should all wear the same hoodie that says, you know, orthopedics at Catholic Health. And so we have a variety of things that we're looking at to sort of bridge the gap and bring folks together, some of which involves looking at various orthopedic subspecialties and whether or not we need to hire additional faculty or if the organizations were partnering with those practices. would prefer to be the ones to hire them, yet they are going to do their work in our hospitals. So we've started the groundwork for those conversations and we've been meeting very actively with a lot of those groups and coming up with ways that we can support each other and have our faculty talk to their faculty, look at things around quality.
One of the things that we all have to partner on are these CMS mandates that have come down. So we had the CJR initiative around joint replacement for the last five or six years, I believe. And now we have teams coming on board, which expands the scope of that for orthopedics and to spine along with, I think we're still keeping hips and a few other things. We also have other service lines involved. So it's been a great opportunity to sort of talk to everyone and say, okay, how can we build upon what we did with strictly with joint replacement and do this together?
Yeah, and how are you navigating all the different changes with CMS and healthcare policy? How are you navigating all that and staying ahead of it?
Carefully. Doing our best. So what we've done is with CJR, we already have the groundwork for a lot of this through our participation in CJR. So that's a benefit. And now we are looking to the other service lines are looking to us in orthopedics and say, okay, how did you do this?
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