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St. Louis Home Care Company is developing a cutting edge approach to reduce preventable hospital readmissions
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St. Louis, MO (PRWEB) January 30, 2012
Home Care Assistance of St. Louis, North America’s leading supplier of home care, today announced a long-term initiative to reduce avoidable hospitalizations and readmissions and become the leader among home care agencies in reducing hospitalization. With his company’s ambitious mission to change the way the world ages and healthy, the Home Care Assistance has devoted an extraordinary amount of time and resources to research for the transition home for reflection to understand the multiple factors that contribute to unnecessary hospitalizations and readmissions available.
We are proud to offer resources to help patients and their loved ones smooth transition from hospital to home and avoiding unnecessary hospital readmissions, said Jeff Schweikert, President of the Home Assistance Care St. Louis. We own a training model in place that promotes the same kind of lifestyle behaviors that help keep our customers outside of the hospital and helps them keep their single plan of care after hospitalization to recover and prevent readmissions.
as a trusted partner of many major medical institutions and a reliable defender of thousands of elderly customers and later recovered in hospital at home, the Home Health Care is in a unique position to develop and implement policies that benefit patients and hospitals Trailblazing. Academic research, years of practical experience and conversations with numerous doctors, planners, risk managers discharge, rehabilitation centers and clients have contributed to the set of materials to prevent readmission to hospital health care Home is proud and excited to share with consumers.
Hospital readmissions are avoidable
a problem that affects many individualsfrom patients suffering from physical and emotional effects of hospitalization in hospitals that they must begin to pay penalties for failure to reduce rehospitalització patients with certain medical conditions to direct costs and indirectly to society. Home Care Assistance, Innovative among home care agencies for its innovative approach to home care, is dedicated in its efforts to develop resources to help patients and hospitals to reduce preventable readmissions. The materials available include specific guidelines for the disease to the cure of diseases like pneumonia and congestive heart failure led to post-hospitalization care, a book, Hospital at home care available for pre -sale on Amazon.com, which offers practical advice to family carers and professionals serving persons discharged from hospital, http://www.HospitaltoHomeCare.com website with resources and tools for patients and their loved the hospital and a package of home care transition to ease the transition back to home or rehabilitation setting.
readmissions are not only harmful to physical and mental health of a patient and costly, but can result in penalties against the hospital, said Dr. David B. Carr, MD. Readmissions may be the result of the lack of support and supervision following the orders of the highest in patients returning home. Having a professional and structured hospital with Start program as offered by the Home Care Assistance promises benefits for the patient and the hospital, working in conjunction with the patient’s medical team to ensure that orders download and follow the intervention occurs before a readmission agreement is necessary.
While this set of materials is designed to drastically reduce unnecessary hospitalizations, Home Health Care is proud to be a preventive approach to health and welfare. His own carefully balanced method based on rigorously studied the lifestyle that contribute to healthy longevity is a fundamental part of their model of caregiver training program and medical care.
For more information about Home Care Assistance of St. Louis, visit or call 314-863-8989 or Toll Free 1-866-454-8346 http://www.HomeCareAssistance.com.
For more information about Dr. Carro honors, awards, achievements and medical specialties, please visit:. http://wuphysicians.wustl.edu/physician2.aspx?PhysNum=1107 http://
ON ASSISTANCE FOR THE HOME CARE ST LOUIS
for over 5 years, the Home Care Assistance of St. Louis has given hundreds of customers throughout the region of St. Louis. Our mission is to change the way the world ages. We offer seniors quality care that allows them to live healthier and happier lives at home. Our services are distinguished by the quality of our caregivers, the responsiveness of our staff and our experienced live-in care. We embrace a positive approach, balanced with aging focused on the changing needs of older adults.
ASSISTANCE ON CARE AT HOME
Home Care Assistance is the leading provider of home care for seniors in the United States and Canada. Our mission is to change the way the world ages. We offer seniors quality care that allows them to live healthier and happier lives at home. Our services are distinguished by the quality of our caregivers, the responsiveness of our staff and our experienced live-in care. We embrace a positive approach, balanced with aging focused on the changing needs of older adults. A Franchise500 2012? Business, Home Care Assistance has received numerous industry awards including the fastest growing business franchises and reviews of Top 50 Franchises. For more information about Home Care Assistance, our services and franchise opportunities, or visit homecareassistance.com franchise.homecareassistance.com.
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The New York Times: Seven out of ten hospital patient safety errors are not reported
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(PRWEB) February 1, 2012
Healthline Systems Patient Safety automated solution module responds to the functionality critical for hospitals that want to save time, automate processes and improve outcomes of patient safety. We are pleased to offer our customers a comprehensive technology solution to manage problems in the real world patient safety, said Dan Littrell, Healthline Systems CEO. The hospitals now have a resource for the automatic documentation of the main events of patient safety in a standardized format.
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Healthline Systems Patient Safety Solutions is a software engine that allows hospitals to enter easily and effortlessly and monitor the patient and the trend of patient safety incidents, almost, and unsafe conditions. Echo provides easy to use, support for standard report formats of the AHRQ, the ability to adapt processes to their specific standard hospital practice,. The ability to protect the security of personal health information (PHI)
The New York Times reports that according to the HHS Office of Inspector General, employees of the Hospital to recognize and report only one in seven mistakes, accidents and incidents that undermine Medicare patients. – Source: The New York Times, accessed January 6, 2012
The article cites alarming realities:
?? It is estimated that 13.5 percent of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries experienced adverse events during their hospital stay.
?? Medical reviewers determined that 44 percent of adverse events and temporary harm or which were clearly avoidable.
?? Hospitalization associated with adverse events and temporary harm to Medicare cost him an estimated $ 324 million in just one month (October 2008). Module
Healthline Systems “patient safety is a component of EchoQuality, industry-leading quality management software system designed HealthLines to manage a quality improvement activities in hospitals. In addition to safety Patient EchoQuality provides automated performance measures, case reviews, utilization management and infection control.
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