Did You Say Doctor Shortage

Since 1965 the medical delivery system has been balancing a patients access to a primary health system provider with Nurse Lorretta Ford and Physician Henry Silver's creation of the first training program for Nurse Practitioners.  The Nurse Practitioner was trained to perform the tasks a Medical Doctor would typically do for a patient seeking help.

This put the idea of serving more individuals by pushing acuity down the continuum of health care delivery in to play.  The specially trained Nurse performed the duties of a Doctor as a lower cost alternative.  The health care system has continued the push down to the next lower cost alternative since then.

Today the push is felt with shorter hospital stays, and higher acuity being transitioned to the home setting.  Technology assists the surgeon to perform a less invasive out patient procedure and  the patient is sent home to recover.  Because help at home is much lower cost than a nights stay in the hospital , recovery in the individuals residence is being adapted as a means to cut total Medicare (Public Funded) Medicaid expenditures.

The patient is challenged to arrange for a supportive home care organization to coordinate the staff needed to insure a safe post procedure recovery.  If the help needed by the individual in the home has been categorized as nonmedical a pay source can take some time to determine.  Often the pay source is an out of pocket investment by the patient and family.

Wisconsin contracts with Care Management Organizations to deliver the Family Care, IRIS, and Wisconsin Partnership Programs which would assess for and coordinate the additional supportive home care staffing needed following a scheduled outpatient procedure.

Home Care Path encourages individuals meeting with a specialty provider to be sure and ask if you would benefit from the temporary help of a supportive care organization following your scheduled surgery. 

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