Difference between revisions of "Patient Stories"

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Complex Patients

• Rebecca Bryson has 10 different medical conditions and depends on 13 health care providers. Her life improved when a program funded a Clinical Care Specialist and the creation of a Shared Care Plan.
• Forty-year-old Jeremie Seals was assigned a care manager and a regular physician that helped reduced his 15 ER visits and 11 hospitals stays to 4 ER visits and 4 hospitals stays the following year.
• Virginia Hunt's story illustrates the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of our healthcare system that addresses conditions and often lacks capability to treat the overall patient.

Reimbursement Issues Home Care - A patient suffering from an infected artificial shoulder couldn't afford intravenous antibiotics three times a day for six weeks in home. Medicare spent an unnecessary $30,000 on hospitalization and care rather than reimbursing for home care. End of Life

• A patient dying of cancer was denied home treatment that would have improved her quality of life over her last few days and saved tens of thousands of dollars.
• A frail, 94-year old women with with advanced Alzheimer’s has hip fracture surgery during her dying days due to poor communications