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Frankly, some people - especially payers - have long thought of home care as fluff, an expensive add-on, something superfluous to treatment and recovery.
But it's not. The data shows home care is not only efficacious, but saves millions of dollars annually. When included as part of primary care, it annually diverts and prevents thousands of expensive emergency room and hospital visits.
When it comes to controlling costs and providing patient-centered care, in fact, home care may be the system's low-hanging fruit.
There are challenges, of course: reimbursements are shaky, there's a shortage of nurses, gas prices are insane and not enough policymakers are talking about it. Come hear Erin Denholm - a 21-year veteran of the system, a Robert Wood Johnson fellow and C E O of Centura's novel, consolidated home care programs - explain the issues and offer some solutions.
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