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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

Like any place else, they don’t use the same operational definition of what we might. But the most striking thing to me was definitely that they would give you different quotes based on who called. And in that, they found it significantly improved ADL function and life space. My one would be on the acute care space.

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Home Care Pulse

I was working in home Health back when it was first introduced back in 2010, as a way for c m s to not only create structured penalties for hospitals with excessive readmissions, but also to reward and incentivize those providers for effective care coordination and collaboration with post-acute providers across the care continuum.