Wisconsin Dells Baraboo Get Ready For Affordable Care Act

The Affordable Care Act (March 23, 2010) is expected to greatly increase the number of community members utilizing the hospital service.  January 1, 2014 anticipates a time of greater community access to hospital services. 

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) have implemented cost containment policy designed to reduce the number of hospital readmissions.  The inconvenient back and forth trips to the hospital are no longer an acceptable part of the inpatient stay.

National health care system researchers identify "Care Transitions" as being the most effective way to reduce preventable hospital readmissions.  Informing community members about care transitions is a proactive way to reduce the back and forth trips to the hospital.

The St. Clare Health Care Foundation recognizing the approaching need to get the word out on "Care Transitions" awards a Healthy Community Partnership Grant to a community based organization Home Care Path (www.homecarepath.com).

Home Care Path combines an ongoing collaborative effort with both public organizations and  private business to organize 3 educational presentations designed to Simplify Care Transitions ( http://www.homecarepath.com/Pages/SimpleCareTransitionsYouAreInvited.aspx) .

The growing list of collaborative participants include:

St. Clare Health Care Foundation
Home Care Path
Kilbourn Public Library
HoChunk Nation House Of Wellness
Baraboo Senior Center (Civic Center)
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Simplifying care transitions reveals an effective way for patients and care givers to truly participate in their own hospital stay.  The information on the coaching sheet saves the patient from reacting to the varied hospital departments simultaneous operations and keeps the focus on pragmatic aspects present in all favorable outcomes of recovery.  Learning care transitions adds a predictable structure to a changing flow, respecting personal preference, and supporting an internal locus of control.

This is an important project that will put our local health care service ahead of the changes being driven by a nationally aging population, political policy, legal regulations, economic fluctuations, and technological developments.  Understanding care transitions can lend a measure of stability to a rapidly evolving health care industry.   Please plan to join us.

This is a free event and everyone is invited to attend.

Dates and Locations of free presentations to simplify care transitions:

Wednesday August 7, 2013 - 1 pm
Kilbourn Public Library
620 Elm Street, Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965

Wednesday August 14, 2013 - 1 pm
HoChunk Nation House of Wellness
S2845 White Eagle Road, Baraboo WI 53913

Monday August 19, 2013 - 1 pm
Baraboo Senior Center (Civic Center)
124 Second Street, Baraboo WI 53913

 You are cordially invited to download your free PATH ALONG app today

http://appsmakerstore.com/appim/j6kcdet8xvwk4s


 Home Care Path  www.homecarepath.com and the Wisconsin PATH ALONG model deliver an advanced supportive care service.  Helping seniors in the home, with clinic visits, at the hospital, nursing home and assisted living facility.  Helping seniors downsize with a move in to an adult child's home. 2013 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an interview.  We can be there when you are working.  We accept long term care insurance.  Services can be tax deductible.  Help with resources and the transition from private payment to public funded programming.  Valuing home and human life

The 3 Big Must Haves For A Medical System App

Apps have become so popular most health care networks form their own committees to assign a value to utilization.  The three qualities these committees identify for continued assessment of the App within the health care network is:

1. Separation of the patients self entered data from clinical staff information system.

2. Separation of discipline specific data for scheduled clinical review.

3. Standard evaluative characteristics accepted from comprehensive field and clinic assessment process.

This pushes the App along in the evaluation process designed to establish a practice of integrating consumer friendly technology in to the health care system.   Large health system networks can then assign recommendation for a specific utilization or refer the app for an expansive process designed to improve the value.  One can predict the day a medical clinic will prescribe an app for a certain identified need.

Home Care Path www.homecarepath.com has received a Healthy Community Partnership Grant from St. Clare Health Care Foundation to demonstrate how attention to care transitions can keep families from having to run back and forth to the hospital.  This is a free event and everyone is invited to attend.

Dates and Locations of free presentations to simplify care transitions:

Wednesday August 7, 2013 - 1 pm
Kilbourn Public Library
620 Elm Street, Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965

Wednesday August 14, 2013 - 1 pm
HoChunk Nation House of Wellness
S2845 White Eagle Road, Baraboo WI 53913

Monday August 19, 2013 - 1 pm
Baraboo Senior Center (Civic Center)
124 Second Street, Baraboo WI 53913

 You are cordially invited to download your free PATH ALONG app today

http://appsmakerstore.com/appim/j6kcdet8xvwk4s


 Home Care Path  www.homecarepath.com and the Wisconsin PATH ALONG model deliver an advanced supportive care service.  Helping seniors in the home, with clinic visits, at the hospital, nursing home and assisted living facility.  Helping seniors downsize with a move in to an adult child's home. 2013 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an interview.  We can be there when you are working.  We accept long term care insurance.  Services can be tax deductible.  Help with resources and the transition from private payment to public funded programming.  Valuing home and human life

Care Transitions and Reducing Hospital Readmission Rates Wisconsin

Care transitions have been identified as the way to help reduce hospital readmissions.  Long term health planners perceive the need to strengthen the link between providers.  Strengthen the link and you reduce the need for a rehospitalization.

Hospitalized patients receive help from the staff to meet their needs.  The help provided by hospital staff is called care.  Care transitions is the hospital staff releasing the care for the person's needs over to staff who work in the community.  This allows community staff to help the discharged patient with their ongoing needs.

Properly handing over the care to better meet the discharged patient's needs is the key to a readmission free recovery.  Families know the hospitalized person does not get better immediately.  Having a simple way to visualize both participants of care from the hospital and on in to the community would help.

Home Care Path www.homecarepath.com has received a Healthy Community Partnership Grant from St. Clare Health Care Foundation to demonstrate how attention to care transitions can keep families from having to run back and forth to the hospital.  This is a free event and everyone is invited to attend.

Dates and Locations of free presentations to simplify care transitions:

Wednesday August 7, 2013 - 1 pm
Kilbourn Public Library
620 Elm Street, Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965

Wednesday August 14, 2013 - 1 pm
HoChunk Nation House of Wellness
S2845 White Eagle Road, Baraboo WI 53913

Monday August 19, 2013 - 1 pm
Baraboo Senior Center (Civic Center)
124 Second Street, Baraboo WI 53913

 You are cordially invited to download your free PATH ALONG app today

http://appsmakerstore.com/appim/j6kcdet8xvwk4s


 Home Care Path  www.homecarepath.com and the Wisconsin PATH ALONG model deliver an advanced supportive care service.  Helping seniors in the home, with clinic visits, at the hospital, nursing home and assisted living facility.  Helping seniors downsize with a move in to an adult child's home. 2013 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an interview.  We can be there when you are working.  We accept long term care insurance.  Services can be tax deductible.  Help with resources and the transition from private payment to public funded programming.  Valuing home and human life

NavAlong Future Gain Wisconsin Federal Exchange

Wisconsin's NavAlong Program is a proposal submitted for the Health Insurance Exchange Navigator Grant.  The NavAlong Program is a model submitted by Home Care Path (www.homecarepath.com) a community based organization.

The Wisconsin NavAlong Program has identified three obvious long term care benefits to their navigator service.

1. A valid pay source for the uninsured

2. Reducing unreimbursed care at the hospital

3. Increased access to preventive services

This saves the working families of Wisconsin precious time while improving the productivity of staff with community businesses. This is a piece of demonstrating the capacity to better serve an expanding global economy.

 You are cordially invited to download your free PATH ALONG app today

http://appsmakerstore.com/appim/j6kcdet8xvwk4s


 Home Care Path  www.homecarepath.com and the Wisconsin PATH ALONG model deliver an advanced supportive care service.  Helping seniors in the home, with clinic visits, at the hospital, nursing home and assisted living facility.  Helping seniors downsize with a move in to an adult child's home. 2013 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an interview.  We can be there when you are working.  We accept long term care insurance.  Services can be tax deductible.  Help with resources and the transition from private payment to public funded programming.  Valuing home and human life 

Cyclospora Cayetanensis 2013 Summer Hitchhiker

Cyclospora Cayetanensis is a parasite composed of one cell, making it too small to see with the naked eye.  Cyclospora can be found on fresh fruits, vegetables, and in water.  Cyclospora is spread by consuming food or water with the parasite (contaminated) in it.

Cyclospora likes the lining of the small intestine.  The parasite causes an intestinal infection called cyclosporiasis.  A small number of the parasites can cause the body to have symptoms.

Once the cyclospora parasite has been eaten sickness shows in about 7 days.  Symptoms start with watery, frequent, and explosive bowel movements.  Symptoms can go from a few days to a month or more.  This develops in to stomach cramps with bloating, decreased appetite, weight loss, nausea, vomit, fatigue, reports of feeling very tired.

The medical system recommends contacting your primary provider at the community clinic with diarrhea lasting more than 3 days.  The treatment is Trimethoprim/ sulfamethoxazole (tmp-smx)  an antibiotic known by the names Bactrim, Septra, and Cotrim. 


 Home Care Path www.homecarepath.com has received a Healthy Community Partnership Grant from St. Clare Health Care Foundation to demonstrate how attention to care transitions can keep families from having to run back and forth to the hospital.  Everyone is invited!

Dates and Locations of free presentations to simplify care transitions:

Wednesday August 7, 2013 - 1 pm
Kilbourn Public Library
620 Elm Street, Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965

Wednesday August 14, 2013 - 1 pm
HoChunk Nation House of Wellness
S2845 White Eagle Road, Baraboo WI 53913

Monday August 19, 2013 - 1 pm
Baraboo Senior Center (Civic Center)
124 Second Street, Baraboo WI 53913

 You are cordially invited to download your free PATH ALONG app today

http://appsmakerstore.com/appim/j6kcdet8xvwk4s


 Home Care Path  www.homecarepath.com and the Wisconsin PATH ALONG model deliver an advanced supportive care service.  Helping seniors in the home, with clinic visits, at the hospital, nursing home and assisted living facility.  Helping seniors downsize with a move in to an adult child's home. 2013 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an interview.  We can be there when you are working.  We accept long term care insurance.  Services can be tax deductible.  Help with resources and the transition from private payment to public funded programming.  Valuing home and human life 

USPS Priority Mail To Include Postal Insurance

Several seniors who sell objects on line have reported The United States Postal Service has a scheduled up grade to their Priority Mail.  Beginning July 28, 2013 those buying the delivery service can expect:

1. 50 to 100 dollars postal insurance for loss, damage, or missing merchandise.  This is included in the shipping fee.

2. Day specific delivery information

The seniors selling on line explain that many distributors do not warehouse items.  The distributor wants to use your inventory in warehouse fashion and make it available to the consumers being served.  For this to work, the distributor needs to know the time lag between destinations and that the product will be replaced if lost or damaged. 

Cleverly, this will allow large online selling organizations like ebay to track individuals who consistently request a refund. 

 You are cordially invited to download your free PATH ALONG app today

http://appsmakerstore.com/appim/j6kcdet8xvwk4s


 Home Care Path  www.homecarepath.com and the Wisconsin PATH ALONG model deliver an advanced supportive care service.  Helping seniors in the home, with clinic visits, at the hospital, nursing home and assisted living facility.  Helping seniors downsize with a move in to an adult child's home. 2013 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an interview.  We can be there when you are working.  We accept long term care insurance.  Services can be tax deductible.  Help with resources and the transition from private payment to public funded programming.  Valuing home and human life

Care Transition Intervention Community Level

Care transitions occur in the period of time between providers.  Wisconsin's PATH ALONG is a model for improving care transitions (Section 3026 ACA) from the hospital to other settings.   The goal is to improve transitions of ongoing care needs from the inpatient setting to other community settings.

Wisconsin's PATH ALONG model shifts individual responsibility from the rural hospital directly on to a shared responsibility among all organizations delivering care in the community.  Wisconsin's PATH ALONG model facilitates implementation of care coordination close to the assessed need.

This compensates for the multiple factors present in the care continuum that impact the need to return to the hospital for service.  This gets us all ahead of the key drivers of re-hospitalization.  The reason is to improve the quality of care, save the patient and families time, and reduce the over all cost related to a hospital stay.

Home Care Path www.homecarepath.com has received a Healthy Community Partnership Grant from St. Clare Health Care Foundation to demonstrate how attention to care transitions can keep families from having to run back and forth to the hospital.  Everyone is invited!

Dates and Locations of free presentations to simplify care transitions:

Wednesday August 7, 2013 - 1 pm
Kilbourn Public Library
620 Elm Street, Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965

Wednesday August 14, 2013 - 1 pm
HoChunk Nation House of Wellness
S2845 White Eagle Road, Baraboo WI 53913

Monday August 19, 2013 - 1 pm
Baraboo Senior Center (Civic Center)
124 Second Street, Baraboo WI 53913

 You are cordially invited to download your free PATH ALONG app today

http://appsmakerstore.com/appim/j6kcdet8xvwk4s


 Home Care Path  www.homecarepath.com and the Wisconsin PATH ALONG model deliver an advanced supportive care service.  Helping seniors in the home, with clinic visits, at the hospital, nursing home and assisted living facility.  Helping seniors downsize with a move in to an adult child's home. 2013 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an interview.  We can be there when you are working.  We accept long term care insurance.  Services can be tax deductible.  Help with resources and the transition from private payment to public funded programming.  Valuing home and human life 

Health Care System Adjusts To Meet Consumer Needs

The entire health care system is in transition.  This can be easily seen in the new construction projects.  Building and staffing of outpatient delivery settings is part of the transition from an acute disease era of the 20th century to the complex chronic disease era of the 21st century.

Models of treatment delivery move from a hospital setting to an outpatient delivery wing.  Treatment occurs in the community outpatient clinic and recovery occurs in the persons current residence.  Outpatient procedures and at home support appear to the patient as part of the same process.

Technological communication advances are employed to optimize service flow.  This transition is consumer driven, evidence based, with collaborative practice in which technology supports greater integration of health care center and community providers in care delivery.

Especially during the transition period leadership lifts from the micro delivery settings to a shared process focused entirely on system solutions.  Defined characteristics which indicate performance measurement are larger system specific , and improvements are assigned to support integration.

In other words, the medical procedure is delivered in the community outpatient clinic, takes about 4 hours, and the patient is sent home with a community provider (www.homecarepath.com) who can support recovery.

 You are cordially invited to download your free PATH ALONG app today

http://appsmakerstore.com/appim/j6kcdet8xvwk4s


 Home Care Path  www.homecarepath.com and the Wisconsin PATH ALONG model deliver an advanced supportive care service.  Helping seniors in the home, with clinic visits, at the hospital, nursing home and assisted living facility.  Helping seniors downsize with a move in to an adult child's home. 2013 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an interview.  We can be there when you are working.  We accept long term care insurance.  Services can be tax deductible.  Help with resources and the transition from private payment to public funded programming.  Valuing home and human life 

Wisconsins NavAlong Awaits August 15th Health Exchange Navigator Award

Home Care Path a community based organization has submitted the NavAlong Program with PPHF-2013 Cooperative Agreement To Support Navigators In Federally Facilitated and State Partnerships. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) will award grants to organizations that promote understanding about the new online health insurance market place on August 15, 2013.

Wisconsin is among the States that will have a Federally assisted health insurance exchange.  The NavAlong staff realize the commitment involves ongoing education on the updates as the system improves the ability to serve the population.  

Staff of the Wisconsin's NavAlong program are committed to ongoing education as the health insurance exchange process expands and evolves.  This is an essential piece of properly understanding new public health programs, new consumer protections, and health insurance system changes that rapidly become available.

Staff are motivated to stay current on eligibility and enrollment rules and regulatory adjustment of procedures.  Staff of the NavAlong program persistently participate in the sharing of information and adapting to new models of service as best practice becomes available.

Staff of  Wisconsin's NavAlong program remind readers the challenge is going to be for exchange navigators to do more with less.  Public and Private resources are tight, which calls on navigator award recipients to work smartly with the most up to date, accurate, information available.

 You are cordially invited to download your free PATH ALONG app today

http://appsmakerstore.com/appim/j6kcdet8xvwk4s


 Home Care Path  www.homecarepath.com and the Wisconsin PATH ALONG model deliver an advanced supportive care service.  Helping seniors in the home, with clinic visits, at the hospital, nursing home and assisted living facility.  Helping seniors downsize with a move in to an adult child's home. 2013 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an interview.  We can be there when you are working.  We accept long term care insurance.  Services can be tax deductible.  Help with resources and the transition from private payment to public funded programming.  Valuing home and human life 

Care Transitions Less Back N Forth To Hospital

Long term health care planners believe knowledge of Care Transitions can help reduce the back and forth runs to the hospital families find so inconvenient.  The challenges associated with having a loved one in the hospital can be stressful.  Families can benefit from a model that simplifies the hospitalization and post discharge process.

Collected data demonstrates the risk for a person needing additional help is increased after a hospital stay.   Finances are effected, schedules are changed, and emotions can blur what is needed for a recovery.  Families want to know what is the most critical to best care for their loved one. 

Wisconsin's PATH ALONG model communicates the care transition concept in a helpful way to reduce family stress during an inpatient stay.  The PATH ALONG model defines each transition and identifies the most pragmatic task inherent in each provider to provider hand off.

Home Care Path www.homecarepath.com has received a Healthy Community Partnership Grant from St. Clare Health Care Foundation to demonstrate how attention to care transitions can keep families from having to run back and forth to the hospital.  Everyone is invited!

Dates and Locations of free presentations to simplify care transitions:

Wednesday August 7, 2013 - 1 pm
Kilbourn Public Library
620 Elm Street, Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965

Wednesday August 14, 2013 - 1 pm
HoChunk Nation House of Wellness
S2845 White Eagle Road, Baraboo WI 53913

Monday August 19, 2013 - 1 pm
Baraboo Senior Center (Civic Center)
124 Second Street, Baraboo WI 53913

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In the study the drug Lambrolizumab was administered to individuals living with advanced melanoma.  The Lambrolizumab dosing contributed to a reduction in the size of the undesired (tumor) mass over a period of time.

Lambrolizumab is thought to disrupt the activity of the immune sign post protein PD-1 and this inhibits the ability of some cancerous processes to get around the bodies functioning immune system.

The drug Lambrolizumab is developed within Merck (MRK) and Company Incorporated.  Merck is a stock traded on the (NYSE) New York Stock Exchange for approximately 48.50.  Viewers are encouraged to watch and see how this drug is accepted in the market place.

 You are cordially invited to download your free PATH ALONG app today

http://appsmakerstore.com/appim/j6kcdet8xvwk4s


 Home Care Path  www.homecarepath.com and the Wisconsin PATH ALONG model deliver an advanced supportive care service.  Helping seniors in the home, with clinic visits, at the hospital, nursing home and assisted living facility.  Helping seniors downsize with a move in to an adult child's home. 2013 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an interview.  We can be there when you are working.  We accept long term care insurance.  Services can be tax deductible.  Help with resources and the transition from private payment to public funded programming.  Valuing home and human life 

Simplifying Care Transitions Flyers Being Sent Out

The flyers which can be posted to alert the community to the approaching "Simplifying Care Transitions" presentations are being sent out.  Each flyer notes Home Care Path (www.homecarepath.com) has received a Healthy Community Partnership Grant from St. Clare Health Care Foundation to demonstrate how  attention to care transitions can keep families from having to run back and forth to the hospital.

Care Transition is a term used to indicate the hand off of the patients needs between providers.  Discharge from a hospital means an M.D. has decided that the patient has reached a stable condition and does not need to be hospitalized anymore.  From the hospital setting community providers exist to care for the patient's needs in to a full recovery.

While in the hospital the hospitalist is the doctor providing care.  In the community your primary medical doctor at the family clinic will treat your ongoing needs.  The transition is from the hospitalist to the primary medical doctor. 

While in the hospital the inpatient pharmacy gets you your medications.  In the community your corner drug store will provide your needed medications.  The transition is from the hospital pharmacy to the community drug store.

Long term health planners believe each care transition involves a specific task that needs to be completed.  Communicating this "dynamic component"  task is a way to engage the patient and family in their own care. 

Understanding care transitions can help the patient and family recover from a needed hospital stay.  These 2 scheduled presentations make it easy to understand. 

Pizza from 2 Brother's Pizza and Buffet 221 Broadway Wisconsin Dells will be served please plan to attend!

Wednesday August 14, 2013-  1pm
HoChunk Nation House of Wellness
S2845 White Eagle Road, Baraboo WI 53913

Monday August 19, 2013-  1pm
Baraboo Senior Center - Civic Center
124 Second Street, Baraboo WI 53913

Special thank you to St. Clare Health Care Foundation for funding this very important community event!

Wisconsin PATH ALONG Models Appeal is Simple

Home Care Path has received a Healthy Community Partnership Grant  from St. Clare Health Care Foundation.  The grant involves simplifying "care transitions"  to improve community understanding which will deliver a collective impact on rates of re-hospitalization.

Health care planners agree simple is better.  Organizing care transition information in a consistent model (PATH ALONG) and utilizing varied avenues of communication spreads the word.  The user population can readily adapt to this pragmatic resource.  Explaining the model to family and friends amplifies awareness. 

Home Care Path will be scheduling three presentations throughout the community which will include the distribution of coaching sheets.  Use of care transitions can help reduce a patients need to return to the hospital for additional care.  This can be helpful for the patient and the family.  Soon Home Care Path will announce the times and locations of the community presentations. 

 You are cordially invited to download your free PATH ALONG app today

http://appsmakerstore.com/appim/j6kcdet8xvwk4s


 Home Care Path  www.homecarepath.com and the Wisconsin PATH ALONG model deliver an advanced supportive care service.  Helping seniors in the home, with clinic visits, at the hospital, nursing home and assisted living facility.  Helping seniors downsize with a move in to an adult child's home. 2013 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an interview.  We can be there when you are working.  We accept long term care insurance.  Services can be tax deductible.  Help with resources and the transition from private payment to public funded programming.  Valuing home and human life

Care Transition App You Should Know About

Elders have embraced Wisconsin's PATH ALONG model App to prevent a re-hospitalization.  Wisconsin families have asked for a way to effectively look at the hospital process.  The PATH ALONG App provides a comfortable lens to organize the view from an inpatient bed to a community residence.  This is a preview that can shape the actual experience post discharge.

Families know a sick person does not always get better immediately.  Wisconsin's PATH ALONG model is a coaching approach to supporting a hospitalized person with what will be needed to recuperate.  A path to take to improve the process of recovery.

Families know ill people will have changes in memory.  A hospitalization can include medications being added with instructions to discontinue a similar pill in the home setting.  The PATH ALONG model encourages participation in what can seem like complex follow up care.

Most importantly the PATH ALONG model helps the family to improve the quality and effectiveness of the inpatient stay.  Seniors seem to derive more from their hospitalization which folds over in to the recovery process.

 You are cordially invited to download your free PATH ALONG app today

http://appsmakerstore.com/appim/j6kcdet8xvwk4s


 Home Care Path  www.homecarepath.com and the Wisconsin PATH ALONG model deliver an advanced supportive care service.  Helping seniors in the home, with clinic visits, at the hospital, nursing home and assisted living facility.  Helping seniors downsize with a move in to an adult child's home. 2013 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an interview.  We can be there when you are working.  We accept long term care insurance.  Services can be tax deductible.  Help with resources and the transition from private payment to public funded programming.  Valuing home and human life

Wisconsin Exchange Navigator Federally Facilitated

Home Care Path has submitted a project titled NavAlong for a Cooperative Agreement to Support Navigators in Federally Facilitated and State Partnership Exchanges.  Home Care Path now waits for the (NoA) Notice of Award which will be signed and dated by the HHS Grants Management Officer.

The immense appeal to the NavAlong proposal involves the factors impacting promotion and community awareness.  The NavAlong program skillfully leverages technology to enhance the delivery of a consistent informative message.

The NavAlong Program takes a comprehensive approach to informing the population
residing in the defined area of the availability of the health insurance exchange
navigation.  The NavAlong Program establishes a web site and an App early in the
process.  The NavAlong Program utilizes social media sites (Facebook, Twitter) to loop
viewers back to the web site.

A colorful, informative, flyer is created through Print Runner for distribution throughout the service area. Presentations are scheduled with area hospitals, medical clinics, rotary club meetings, county health and social service offices, chamber of commerce offices, farmers co-op and exchange, area churches, and public library settings to name a few.

At each presentation extra laminated coaching sheets are handed out to be spread throughout the community.  Every communication avenue listed above ( web site, App, social media posts, presentations, colorful flyer, and laminated coaching sheet) delivers pragmatic
information and the means to access additional assistance through the NavAlong
Program.

This enhances the NavAlong Programs reach across the service area while
empowering the community with an increasing familiarity with the exchange navigation
service. This demonstrates how the NavAlong Program supports the Exchanges service
of one stop shopping.

 You are cordially invited to download your free PATH ALONG app today

http://appsmakerstore.com/appim/j6kcdet8xvwk4s


 Home Care Path  www.homecarepath.com and the Wisconsin PATH ALONG model deliver an advanced supportive care service.  Helping seniors in the home, with clinic visits, at the hospital, nursing home and assisted living facility.  Helping seniors downsize with a move in to an adult child's home. 2013 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an interview.  We can be there when you are working.  We accept long term care insurance.  Services can be tax deductible.  Help with resources and the transition from private payment to public funded programming.  Valuing home and human life

Obama Administration Wants Exchanges in Place Prior To Employer Mandate

The Administration of the President of The United States Barack Obama wants the health insurance exchanges operating prior to the employer mandate.  On Tuesday July 2, 2013 on the United States Department of Treasury website Mark J. Mazur under the screen Treasury Notes announced a one year postponement. 

The employer mandate due to begin on January 1, 2014 has been put on hold for one year.  Under the Affordable Care Act the mandate required employers with 50 or more employees to provide a standard health insurance plan to their work force or pay a 2 thousand dollar fine per employee.

This is a management strategy designed to facilitate a national level health insurance process.  The Administration recognizes the employers compliance is directly related to the availability of options through the health insurance exchanges. 

As residents of each State better understand the Health Insurance Exchange , business to Treasury reporting requirements will be simplified.   The business communities ability to comprehend and utilize the Health Insurance Exchange expands internal quality.  The extra year will allow States time to assemble and improve the Health Insurance Exchange process.

This is a Presidential move similar to President Lyndon B. Johnson when he had Robert Ball the Commissioner of Social Security wait until the summer of 1966 to roll out Medicare.  The Administration believed there would be less utilization during the summer months improving the chances for the establishment of the Medicare program.

The Administration places a high level of importance on community promotion and education.  Access to health care benefits through an established process will improve community buy in.  Home Care Path encourages seniors to watch this process as it unfolds.

 You are cordially invited to download your free PATH ALONG app today

http://appsmakerstore.com/appim/j6kcdet8xvwk4s


 Home Care Path  www.homecarepath.com and the Wisconsin PATH ALONG model deliver an advanced supportive care service.  Helping seniors in the home, with clinic visits, at the hospital, nursing home and assisted living facility.  Helping seniors downsize with a move in to an adult child's home. 2013 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an interview.  We can be there when you are working.  We accept long term care insurance.  Services can be tax deductible.  Help with resources and the transition from private payment to public funded programming.  Valuing home and human life
 

View From Hospital Added To PATH ALONG App

The PATH ALONG App has recently added "View From The Hospital".  From the App you can enter a screen that displays an image of a post card that has been sent in by App users.  Try the App by pressing on the link below.

http://appsmakerstore.com/appim/j6kcdet8xvwk4s

The image is shown to give the viewer a means to relax the mind from the inpatient hospital setting.  This can lift the spirit and allow the body to continue to heal.  View from the hospital demonstrates evidence for the accepted application of human connectedness and sharing.

 Home Care Path  www.homecarepath.com and the Wisconsin PATH ALONG model deliver an advanced supportive care service.  Helping seniors in the home, with clinic visits, at the hospital, nursing home and assisted living facility.  Helping seniors downsize with a move in to an adult child's home. 2013 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an interview.  We can be there when you are working.  We accept long term care insurance.  Services can be tax deductible.  Help with resources and the transition from private payment to public funded programming.  Valuing home and human life