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To truly understand '''managing health'', we need to hear first hand from patients to relate, emphathize and learn how to improve. <br> | To truly understand '''managing health'', we need to hear first hand from patients to relate, emphathize and learn how to improve. <br> | ||
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* [http://www.pbs.org/remakingamericanmedicine/bryson.html 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. | * [http://www.pbs.org/remakingamericanmedicine/bryson.html 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. | ||
Revision as of 14:44, 6 July 2016
To truly understand 'managing health, we need to hear first hand from patients to relate, emphathize and learn how to improve.
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.
Financial Issues
- 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
