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Professional Home Care Advantages
Most patients prefer professional home care where they control the agenda, care schedule, diet, and sleep time, all while enjoying familiar surroundings. Professional home care embodies the principles of respecting the values and needs of a patient with coordination and integration of care, education, emotional support and managed transitions.
Physician house calls dramatically improve seniors’ access to quality care. At least 1 million seniors are permanently homebound and 2-3 million more cannot easily access physician offices without assistance. As a result, many seniors critically require access to regular, ongoing, coordinated care.
Many of these patients are “high cost” users with five or more chronic conditions. Studies have shown that 10% of all Medicare beneficiaries consume 60% of Medicare expenditures (“Chronic Conditions: Making the Case for Ongoing Care,” p. 19, Partnership for Solutions, Johns Hopkins University, for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (December, 2002); CBO report (May, 2005).
It doesn’t matter if a patient is rich or poor, lack of primary care access increases medical costs. Instead of receiving appropriate, timely primary care for acute declines or new problems, they opt for expensive ER’s and inpatient units. Over 50% of Medicare beneficiaries admitted to a hospital are readmitted within 60 days, so oftentimes a patient’s first hospital visit is not their last.