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
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Monday, July 29, 2013
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
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
Friday, July 26, 2013
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
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
Thursday, July 25, 2013
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
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
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
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
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
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
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
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
Saturday, July 20, 2013
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
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
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