What is the Affordable Part Of The Wisconsin Health Insurance Exchange

With health insurance the term affordable means increased access which translates to higher use.  More and more people in Wisconsin will have health insurance.  More medical staff will need to pick up a pay check for participating in the performance of this health delivery service.  More employees will be paid for processing the increased number of medical claims. 

A capsule of the health insurance industry remains fixated on the increased number of submitted claims will mean increased insurance fund output.  Most predictions cling to a notion that the in coming uninsured group is sicker, and will demand to use more of the insurance fund for benefits.

This change which involves millions of people who lack health insurance becoming part of the pool of insured can sound scary.  Any group of business providers that serve more people will have a larger ongoing investment.  The cost of doing business costs more when your larger population consumes the available product.

Initially the health insurance industry will compare and contrast the monthly premium the health plan will charge the beneficiaries.  Fortunately the monthly premiums will be effected by premium subsidies, changes in benefit design, and ongoing rate review regulations.  This insurance product is structured with built in efforts that manage premium cost throughout the plans delivery.

An increased number of people contributing to the fund of the health insurance plan means more intake.  Larger groups of insured can negotiate better medical service contracts with health system delivery.  Technology is employed by inpatient providers to better manage length of stay and return trips to the hospital.  Supportive care (www.homecarepath.com) is utilized when discharged patients need the help of another, but no longer qualify for skilled medical care.  This coordination improves care and manages cost.

Participants are being challenged to adapt to changes of service which affords all in the community the opportunity to be cared for by the medical system of delivery.   Organizing the system in a way that can spare care delivery without serious financial detriment is the true measure of the affordable part of the Wisconsin health insurance exchange.   Home Care Path encourages readers to watch this issue as it unfolds in the next few months.

 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's Uninsured Population Draws 13 Health Insurance Providers

Wisconsin will have 13 health insurance providers selling plans on the new health insurance exchange marketplace.  Having so many big names competing for consumers is quite unexpected.  The names include:

1. Common Ground Health Care Cooperative
2. Compcare Health Services Insurance Corporation
3. Dean Health Plan Incorporated
4. Group Health Cooperative South Central Wisconsin
5. Gundersen Health Plan Incorporated
6. Health Tradition Health Plan
7. Medica Health Plans of Wisconsin
8. Mercy Care HMO Incorporated
9. Molina Health Care of Wisconsin Incorporated
10. Physicians Plus Insurance Corporation
11. Security Health Plan of Wisconsin Incorporated
12. Unity Health Plans Insurance Corporation
13. Arise of WPS Health Plan Incorporated

Like a modern day gold rush, plans will shout benefits in hopes of receiving a large market share of Wisconsin consumers health care dollars.  Home Care Path encourages readers to watch this issue as the health insurance exchange in Wisconsin begins to operate.

 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

Skilled Nursing Following Discharge Agency List

One aspect of the Wisconsin PATH ALONG models comprehensive approach focuses on the need for skilled nursing post discharge.  Are there tasks that will require the help of a skilled nurse in the home setting.  This is communicated as:

Hospital nurse     (transition)     Home care nurse

Dynamic component: Nursing summary completed

Rationale: a comprehensive nursing approach to recovery helps prevent rehospitalization

The primary role of a skilled nurse is teaching the patient and family about the tasks that will need to be performed to maintain health.  The hospital nurse will go over the nursing summary with the patient and family prior to leaving the hospital setting.

Should the patient need additional skilled nursing in the home setting, hospital staff should be able to help schedule this.  Often the patient and family will be presented with a list of Medicare certified skilled nursing agencies that can make home visits.  The skilled nursing visits are scheduled according to the patients need.  Skilled nursing visits usually involve a new medical diagnosis, with medication changes, or dressing changes.  Here the nurse is teaching the patient and family how to recover in the home setting.

A skilled nursing agency is not assigned to home visits to perform ADL's and IADL's.   Bathing, dressing, eating, meal prep, medication reminders, scheduled toileting, dressing, walking, mobility, transfers, are all performed by a supportive care agency (www.homecarepath.com ).  This can be confusing for the patient and family who may perceive that the skilled nurse will be assigned under Medicare to make lengthy home visits and fill this additional need for the dwelling. 

This is where the Wisconsin PATH ALONG model communicates to the population being served the important difference in the service that will be performed in the home setting.  Sending a patient who needs help with 2 or more ADL's or IADL's with just skilled nursing is not the best approach to coordinating care that will result in a readmission free recovery.

The take home message is always review the nursing summary prior to discharge from an inpatient setting.   Question if your at home needs will involve skilled nursing and supportive care and how those needs will be adequately met upon discharge. 

 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

Count On The Lab

Wisconsin's PATH ALONG model puts its trust in today's lab procedures.  Inpatient and community clinic providers depend on the lab values to determine proper treatment.  The PATH ALONG model looks at it this way:

Hospital lab     (transition)     Clinic lab

Dynamic component: All pending labs have been reviewed by hospital staff.

Rationale: treatment and medication doses will be most effective when they have been adjusted to the latest lab values.

Hospital discharge medications should be in line with your most recent blood lab values.  An effective dose often depends on the latest lab results.  It is not advisable to leave the hospital setting with labs pending.  Access to all the labs will give the provider the ability to determine a more comprehensive approach to recovery.  Understanding the lab schedule required for some prescribed medications can help improve a persons level of participation.  This all helps reduce the need for a rehospitalization.

 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

Decertify Critical Access Hospitals for Cost Containment???

Critical Access Hospital's deliver urgently needed care to rural populations in Wisconsin.  Critical Access Hospitals are Medicare certified with ER service available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.   Usually no more than 25 inpatient beds with an average length of stay no more than 96 hours for an acute need.  These hospitals move the patients with more complex needs to the larger hospital setting.  Critical Access Hospitals receive a higher level of Medicare reimbursement.

The Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General has recommended The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) begin to reassess and decertify many Critical Access Hospitals due to location requirements.  This activity means Medicare reduces the out flow of money.  The act of decertifying Critical Access Hospitals will increase risk reserve Medicare funds. 

Current regulatory guidelines call for removing the Critical Access Hospital designation for any hospital within 10 miles of another hospital.  This will be a large deficit for the rural hospitals annual budget.  A larger portion of the rural Wisconsin hospital's total population served will have Medicare as a pay source.  This subtracts more money per individual Medicare claim being reimbursed to the hospital. 

Removing this money from a small rural hospitals annual budget will result in the loss of service to the community.  The measure to decertify Critical Access Hospitals turns a blind eye to the fiscal techniques utilized to maintain a safe level of health delivery in the rural Wisconsin setting.

Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin has pushed legislative action to help rural hospitals minimize this approaching change.   Home Care Path encourages readers to continue to follow this issue 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

The Nursing Assistants Always Know

The nursing assistants always know what the hospitalized patient is needing help with.  Wisconsin's PATH ALONG model communicates this important aspect of an inpatient's needs this way:

Hospital nurse aide     (transition)     In home supportive care

Dynamic component- ADL's and IADL's needing assistance

Rationale: Assistants to perform needed tasks helps prevent a rehospitalization

When a hospitalized individual requires the help of another with eating, meal prep, bathing, dressing, daily hygiene, oral care, hair care, medication reminders, laundry, scheduled toileting, walking, transferring, arranging appointments, or communicating on the phone, it is likely they will need this help when discharged.

Medical system coordinators know all people recover on their own unique schedule.  The goal at discharge is to arrange for post acute support needed to contribute to a rehospitalization free recovery period.

Wisconsin's PATH ALONG model explains how attention to "CARE TRANSITIONS" during the inpatient stay is a primary intervention required in today's health delivery practice.  The nursing assistant is a strong participant in the future of medicine. 

 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

MD Care Transitions and Hospital Discharge

Care transitions become more easily understood when broken down by discipline specific providers.  The Wisconsin's PATH ALONG model https://www.facebook.com/pages/PATH-ALONG/423669527722964?ref=hl delivers the information in a comprehensible structure.

Community members involved with a hospital stay soon find they are being seen by more than one medical doctor.  The senior will have their primary medical doctor who they will see in the family clinic, and the hospital will have a doctor on staff for the inpatient treatment process.  The PATH ALONG model views this care transition like this:

 Hospitalist     (transition)     Primary MD

Dynamic component- ongoing monitoring tasks requiring an MD order are communicated to the Primary MD

Rationale: rapid care through primary MD helps prevent a rehospitalization

Consider a family member being prescribed an anti seizure medication as part of their hospital treatment.  The patient is discharged with a script for anti seizure medications to be filled by the corner drug store for in home consumption.  Part of this new anti seizure medication is the ongoing blood draws to allow the lab to determine the therapeutic dose.  The lab will require an MD order to conduct the needed on going blood draws. 

The family clinic can get the MD order to the lab and schedule the ongoing blood draws which will be an important part of this new anti seizure treatment.  The primary MD will be the provider who assesses and monitors the patient's response to the newly prescribed treatment regimen. 

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) believe closer attention to care transitions is the means to reduce the need to return to the hospital for additional help. 

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

http://appsmakerstore.com/appim/j6kcdet8xvwk4s

Home Care Path (www.homecarepath.com) 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.  This includes Pizza from 2 Brother's Pizza and Buffet 221 Broadway Wisconsin Dells  https://www.facebook.com/2BrothersPizzaBuffet

Date and Location of free presentation to simplify care transitions

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

          PLEASE  PLAN  TO  ATTEND!!!

Pharmacy Care Transitions and Hospital Discharge

Wisconsin's PATH ALONG model spells out the discipline specific care transition to help the patient population better understand how the inpatient stay to community discharge process works. 
During your hospital stay the inpatient pharmacy delivers your needed medications.  Upon discharge the corner drug store will be giving you the prescribed medications.  This is a simple lay out to help you better comprehend the Pharmacy care transition.

Hospital pharmacy     (transition)     Home town pharmacy

Dynamic component- Home town pharmacy able to dispense medication the way MD order has been written

Rationale: taking medications as provider ordered helps prevent a rehospitalization

The home town pharmacy will need a valid pay source before filling the bottle with the pills you need.  This is best accomplished when the prescribing provider writes an order for a medication that is listed on your health insurance plans formulary.  This means the insurance plan will pay the larger part of the medication.

Does the home town pharmacy have the prescribed medication on a shelf at their current location for placing in a pill bottle and handing out to you.  Some less frequently prescribed medications may need to be brought in to the home town pharmacy location from another storage area before available to dispense. 

If you are expected to take some of the medication that afternoon and the home town pharmacy will not have it available to give out till the next day, this can adversely effect the recovery.  The ideal MD order (prescription) will be for a medication that is paid for by your health insurance plan and the home town pharmacy has sitting on the shelf of their current location ready to hand out to you the consumer.

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

http://appsmakerstore.com/appim/j6kcdet8xvwk4s

Home Care Path (www.homecarepath.com) 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.  This includes Pizza from 2 Brother's Pizza and Buffet 221 Broadway Wisconsin Dells  https://www.facebook.com/2BrothersPizzaBuffet

Date and Location of free presentation to simplify care transitions

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

          PLEASE  PLAN  TO  ATTEND!!!

Care Transitions Registration and Exchange Navigators

Hospital readmissions are no longer an acceptable piece of the health care delivery system.  Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) have established regulatory policy that moves hospital providers toward interventions to reduce readmission rates.  Health care planners have embraced the idea of paying closer attention to care transitions as an effective way to manage hospital readmissions.

In Wisconsin the comprehensive PATH ALONG model is being utilized throughout the community.  The Wisconsin PATH ALONG model gives an easily understood structure to the multiple , varied care transitions associated with a hospital stay.

Registration is listed as a care transition.  On the coaching sheet this care transition looks like:

Hospital registration     (transition)     Clinic registration

Dynamic component- Valid medical pay sources, formulary constraints

Rationale: knowledge of payment informs choice and prevents a rehospitalization

When you sign in at the registration desk prior to admission you are authorizing the hospital claims department to bill you and your pay sources for the service that is provided.  This is where you want to encourage the prescribing providers to order medications and treatments that can be (Covered) paid for through your insurance plans.

Each health insurance policy will have a list (formulary) of the covered medications.  Having the hospital staff prescribe from the list of covered medications will save you money when you go to the home town pharmacy to fill the MD order.  Consumers are more likely to take their medication knowing the pills are covered, and there is less out of pocket payment required.

During the hospital registration process people in between health insurance plans (without coverage) can request additional assistance.  Additional assistance is the help of another in determining which potential pay sources could contribute to your much needed health bills. 

The Federal Government has provided grant funding to establish exchange navigators in the State of Wisconsin who can assist families with finding a valid medical pay source.  This pushes instructional resources out in to the local counties to help families eligible for the various private and public health insurance plans get the much needed access. 

The community health care providers benefit from this effort by knowing the service will be paid for.  Families can better understand how a combination of public and private pay sources can be made available for continued health care needs.  The consumer is encouraged to provide both the hospital registration department and the community clinic registration department with the same information.  Up to date information insures the benefits through your valid pay sources will be exhausted before the medical provider turns to out of pocket payment.

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

http://appsmakerstore.com/appim/j6kcdet8xvwk4s

Home Care Path (www.homecarepath.com) 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.  This includes Pizza from 2 Brother's Pizza and Buffet 221 Broadway Wisconsin Dells  https://www.facebook.com/2BrothersPizzaBuffet

Date and Location of free presentation to simplify care transitions

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

          PLEASE  PLAN  TO  ATTEND!!!

Long Term Care Insurance Becoming Less Available?

Long Term Care Insurance helps beneficiaries pay for the health care they need beyond the acute provision of medical treatment.  Medicare pays for the skilled medical treatments but not the lingering chronic symptoms that require the help of another.

As an industry Long Term Care Insurance plans have discovered their operating margin is very slim.  Money from paid premiums is invested in the hopes of producing a return that exceeds the payments when the elder is receiving covered services.  Returns on investments have not come up to the industries expectations.

A large percentage of the purchasing population have continued to pay their premiums and lived to collect.  More going out, less coming in.  As a management strategy Long Term Care Insurance plans have negotiated regulatory changes that would support new rate hikes on existing policies. 

This can mean a person holding a viable policy from the 1970's to 2005 could be faced with the decision to pay a higher premium monthly or accept a lower daily capitated benefit payment. 
This is the Long Term Care Insurance industries action to adjust returns toward an acceptable level of risk.

What this means from a consumers level is the premiums have been raised, the benefit lowered and the quantity of participating people has dropped off.  This means less of a pool of collected money to spread the risk across. 

As a result fewer and fewer companies will create, market, and support these Long Term Care Insurance plans.  Less availability, less competition. 

Which is difficult for communities of today who all have dwellings populated with individuals in need of this type of product.  Home Care Path (www.homecarepath.com) encourages readers to watch this ongoing issue as it unfolds.

Home Care Path 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.  This includes Pizza from 2 Brother's Pizza and Buffet 221 Broadway Wisconsin Dells  https://www.facebook.com/2BrothersPizzaBuffet

Dates and Locations of free presentations to simplify care transitions:

 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

          PLEASE  PLAN  TO  ATTEND!!!

Isomark a Breath away From managing Hospital infection

Isomark is a Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) funded LLC (March 2011) created to focus on prevention of hospital related infections.  Public health plans  (Medicare and Medicaid) and private insurance will no longer reimburse a hospital for expenses related to hospital acquired infections. 

Isomark is developing a non- invasive breath monitoring technology for a global market.  Sensors use technology to indicate isotopic (protons to neutrons with mass number) changes with exhaled carbon dioxide to show the initial presence of infection.  This is in real time, within a few hours of the assembly of the biological components needed to produce symptoms of infection.

This immediate detection offers medical providers the opportunity to use treatment to limit the ability of the infection to produce the undesired symptoms in the patients body.  This improves the over all quality of the patient's hospital stay and saves the health system money.

The Isomark web site lists March 2014 as a target date to submit to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval.  Home Care Path (www.homecarepath.com) encourages viewers to watch this new technology as it moves toward utilization in the health delivery system. 

Home Care Path 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.  This includes Pizza from 2 Brother's Pizza and Buffet 221 Broadway Wisconsin Dells  https://www.facebook.com/2BrothersPizzaBuffet

Dates and Locations of free presentations to simplify care transitions:

 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

          PLEASE  PLAN  TO  ATTEND!!!

Care Transitions Presentations One Aspect Of Multilateral Approach

The Simplifying Care Transitions presentation delivered throughout the community is one aspect of a multilateral approach to providing the support needed to reduce preventable hospital readmissions. 
The presentation targets individuals less likely to view the information on a computer lap top or smart phone.  The presentation includes the distribution of the information on take along laminated coaching sheets. 

The PATH ALONG App allows user's of smart phones to access the same information on managing care transitions through http://appsmakerstore.com/appim/j6kcdet8xvwk4s

Families using a lap top computer can access the care transitions management information on
http://www.homecarepath.com/Pages/PATHALONGModelCondensed.aspx

In Wisconsin this care transition project includes access to transition assistants
www.homecarepath.com capable of helping the family through the discharge recovery period. 

Home Care Path 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.  This includes Pizza from 2 Brother's Pizza and Buffet 221 Broadway Wisconsin Dells  https://www.facebook.com/2BrothersPizzaBuffet

Dates and Locations of free presentations to simplify care transitions:

 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

          PLEASE  PLAN  TO  ATTEND!!!

Care Transitions Announced In Baraboo Senior Citizen Organization Newsletter

The August distribution of the Baraboo Senior Citizen Organization Newsletter announces the Care Transitions presentation schedule.  http://content.seekandfind.com/bulletins/01/1331/20130801N.pdf

This is a fun event with 3 presentation stations, pizza, door prizes and takes less than one hour to attend. 

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.  This includes Pizza from 2 Brother's Pizza and Buffet 221 Broadway Wisconsin Dells  https://www.facebook.com/2BrothersPizzaBuffet

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

Participatory Research Preventing Hospital Readmissions

The purpose of the project is to alert the community to the need to reduce preventable hospital readmissions. This is a community level health care intervention designed to involve the patient and families in the effort to reduce preventable hospital readmissions.  Utilizing participatory action research mode to deliver an integrative approach to managing process change at the community level.

GOAL: Develop, organize and conduct presentations in geographical areas of opportunity to inform the public of the means to reduce the risk of having to return to the hospital for post discharge service.

PROJECT ASPECTS: After consulting with local educational professionals the project team has designed a 3 station presentation that includes both visual and auditory approach to delivery.   The entire process which includes the serving of pizza from 2 Brother's Pizza and Buffet, a drawing for door prizes, and distribution of free laminated coaching sheets will take less than one hour.   This is designed to serve community members with a tight summer schedule.

COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS:
St. Clare Health Care Foundation
Home Care Path
Kilbourn Public Library
HoChunk Nation House Of Wellness
Baraboo Senior Center (Civic Center)

Wisconsin State Journal
2 Brother's Pizza and Buffet https://www.facebook.com/2BrothersPizzaBuffet
Joseph Leute Photography

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PROJECT PERIOD: Inception is June 2012 with PATH ALONG the original Wisconsin model http://www.homecarepath.com/Pages/PRESSRELEASEOriginalWisconsinModelToReduceHospitalReadmissionRates.aspx

Community presentations have been scheduled for:


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

 

 FUNDING SOURCE: St. Clare Health Care Foundation

 

PROJECT CONTACT: www.homecarepath.com

This is a ground breaking community intervention with an expanding reach demonstrating evidence for the effort to comply with The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid initiative to reduce hospital readmission rates.  The project team applauds the St. Clare Health Care Foundations proactive approach to this nationally identified need.

Facebook Stock NASDAQ FB Is The One To Watch

Facebook stock NASDAQ FB just got a lot more interesting to the investing community.  On Friday August 2, 2013 Facebook stock rose to close at 38.05 which is above the May 2012 IPO stock starting investment level of 38.00.

Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004.  Individual pages facilitate automatic updates which delivers communication in real time. This offers seniors an immediate way to inform friends and family of the changes as they occur in their life.  Home Care Path (www.homecarepath.com) assists seniors to use the computer to have fun with Facebook the social communication tool.

The Facebook IPO is the Initial Public Stock Offering.  The prospectus (offer document) was the formal legal document filed with the Security and Exchange Commission to facilitate the NASDAQ FB stock achieving a 38.00 value in May 2012.

Since the May 2012 Public Stock Offering, Facebook staff have conservatively worked with available capital to secure a greater market share through an established residence in the mobile communication technology.  Facebook has a global reach demonstrating evidence of the user friendly approach.  The transition in to smart phones and mobile tablet devices is clearly paying off.

Home Care Path encourages viewers to continue to follow NASDAQ FB stock as it grows in this new connected global world.

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.  This includes Pizza from 2 Brother's Pizza and Buffet 221 Broadway Wisconsin Dells  https://www.facebook.com/2BrothersPizzaBuffet

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

How Care Transitions Fit In Today's Health Care System

Hospital's nation wide are being encouraged by Medicare and Medicaid policy to reduce inpatient readmission rates through closer attention to "Care Transitions".  What this means is:

People are living longer

Chronic disease can accompany advanced age

Chronic disease responds better to ongoing management than occasional urgent treatment

Ongoing management involves the sharing of a patient's needs between providers

Care transitions is the sharing of patient needs between providers

The dynamic component of the PATH ALONG model is the discipline specific primary patient discharge need.   Here is an example with occupational therapy.

Hospital occupational therapy  (transition)  In home occupational therapy

Dynamic component: needed equipment prior authorized

Rationale: proper adaptive equipment improves function and helps reduce re-hospitalization

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.  This includes Pizza from 2 Brother's Pizza and Buffet 221 Broadway Wisconsin Dells  https://www.facebook.com/2BrothersPizzaBuffet

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

Illinois To Legalize Marijuana For Medical Conditions HB0030

Wisconsin's neighbor is expected to legalize medical marijuana today.   Bill HB0030 was formed and put forward by Sara Feigenholtz, Kelly M. Cassidy, Greg Harris, Lou Lang, Angelo Saviano, Ann Williams, Robyn Gabel, and Kenneth Dunkin.

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is expected to sign the bill legalizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes today.  This would provide another treatment option for supporting individuals suffering with a chronic illness.  When signed the availability would begin January 1, 2014. 

The medical doctor writes the order prescribing the marijuana.  The prescription lists a chronic medical diagnosis with undesired symptoms that marijuana through research has proven to relieve.

Current regulations permit no more than 2.5 ounces of marijuana to be prescribed over a 2 week period.   The prescription can be filled through approximately 60 certified dispensing centers throughout the State of Illinois.

Medical marijuana cannot legally be grown by a person with a prescription.  The source to supply the certified dispensing centers is 22 growing centers registered with the State of Illinois.

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.  This includes Pizza from 2 Brother's Pizza and Buffet 221 Broadway Wisconsin Dells  https://www.facebook.com/2BrothersPizzaBuffet

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