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Hospitals in a Medical Home: Partners in Enhancing Access, Health Status and Cost Avoidance
In Hospitals in a Medical Home: Partners in Enhancing Access, Health Status and Cost Avoidance, the director of a medical home network demonstrates how hospitals can partner with medical homes to deliver patient-centered care to uninsured and low-income patients while reaping the financial benefits associated with decreased utilization and duplication of services.
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Dr. Jim Reynolds, chief medical officer for Health Fitness Corporation, notes that the dismal economy of 2009 has been a bright spot for health coaching and other health improvement programs. Dr. Reynolds also compares early results from a Massachusetts' smoking cessation program for Medicaid beneficiaries with outcomes in commercial populations, and describes what Year 1 of a coaching program for improved medication adherence might yield in the way of behavior change and cost impacts.
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Patient Education in the Medical HomeEach week,
healthcare professionals respond to a reader's query on an industry issue. This week's expert is Barbara Wall, president and CEO of Hagen Wall Consulting
Question: What patient education tools provide the greatest ROI in the patient-centered medical home — for instance, disease self-management information, wellness information, information about appropriate ER use, etc.?
Response: As long as the basis of the patient teaching tools is written at a standard grade level, most of them are pretty good. For Medicaid the grade level is usually at about a sixth grade level and for a commercial population the reading grade level is junior high school or about eighth grade level. The most effective use in patient teaching that I have seen is when there is one-to-one contact between the patient educator or DM nurse and the patient. There seems to be a much greater degree of engagement in retention and buy-in by the patient when there is interaction on a one-to-one basis in teaching, rather than the educational material simply being in hard copy accessed by the patient alone.
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