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I Heart House Calls – Tom Cornwell, M.D.

“I Heart House Calls” is a web series produced by the Home Centered Care Institute that features stories told by the people of home-based primary care, those who provide house calls and those who have experienced their life-affirming impact.

In this webisode, Tom Cornwell, M.D., the CEO of HCCI and a house call doctor for more than 25 years, discusses how he started making house calls, how payment reform is changing the health care landscape, and why clinicians should consider entering this rewarding career.

Have house calls made an impact on your life? Regardless of whether you’re a provider, a family member, caretaker, or patient, if house calls have made an impact on your life, we’d love to hear from you and share your story. Contact HCCI at 630-283-9200 or [email protected]!

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Heal CEO Sees Doctor House Calls as the Future of Medicine

Heal Chief Executive Officer Nick Desai and Chairman Paul Jacobs discuss the startup’s mission to enable doctors in making house calls. They speak with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang on “Bloomberg Technology.” (Source: Bloomberg)

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Kristofer Smith, MD, talks HBPC, Better Outcomes, and a Financially Stable Model

HCCI sat down with Dr. Smith recently at the recent American Academy of Home Care Medicine Annual Meeting. He shared why he’s so optimistic for the field of home-based primary care (HBPC). We also enjoyed hearing the story of how he became involved in the field. Dr. Smith is rather unique in that, unlike many practitioners, he came to home-based primary care very early in his career. Finally, listen for his compelling comments on reducing “unnecessary suffering.”

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The HCCI Home-Based Primary Care Implementation Model

HCCI Home-Based Primary Care Implementation Model

According to estimates from the Small Business Administration, approximately 50% of small businesses fail within the first five years. Only 25% make it to 15 years or more. While a house call program isn’t an IT firm or subscription-based clothing firm, the challenges facing those organizations – that often prove insurmountable – are not all that different.

Research suggests that organizations, and practices, fail due to shortcomings in the following:

  • Assessing the market
  • Creating a viable business and financial plan
  • Hiring enough of the right people
  • Patient and caregiver satisfaction
  • Flexibility and changing with the environment

Many well-intentioned practitioners who see a need in their area – patients who are no longer able to access traditional primary care – jump in with good intentions of meeting that need. They bring a much-needed model of care to a vulnerable population. What happens too often, however, is those same practitioners find themselves struggling months later, encountering issues with staffing, staff retention, and revenue generation. They work tireless hours for little financial return. The intrinsic rewards of home-based primary care are notable, and the care provided is life-changing for many patients and caregivers. But if the practice isn’t sustainable, all those good intentions and good work are at risk.

HCCI has developed a model for implementing and growing house call programs. Starting with the fundamentals of establishing a business, including researching the market and creating a business plan, the HCCI House Call Implementation Model guides practitioners through the multiple aspects of building and leading a successful practice. While the initial phases of the model are critical and not to be overlooked, the Model is interactive by design, and can be entered at any level. HCCI has developed a rich array of learning opportunities and tools to support practices as they grow and can provide expert assistance whenever additional guidance is requested.

HCCI is dedicated to increasing access to home-based primary care for the millions of chronically ill, medically complex patients who need it. The HCCI House Call Implementation Model supports the work of practitioners who seek to do that, helping them create thriving and sustainable house call practices equipped to provide long-term solutions for their patients.

Click here to download a copy of the model. Contact us to learn how HCCI can support your practice.

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Doing Well While Doing Good – The Synergy Between Margin and Mission

Margin and Mission

Margin and Mission

HCCI returned from the C-TAC National Summit for Advanced Illness Care last week energized and renewed after hearing so many incredible stories about advances in the field from several industry leaders.

A plenary session we found especially valuable was given by Lauran Hardin, RN, Senior Director, Cross Continuum Transformation, National Center for Complex Social and Medical Care, Ben Carter, CFO of Trinity Health, and Patrick Courneya, MD, EVP and Chief Medical Officer of Kaiser Permanente.

Research strongly suggests that not only is high-quality advanced care delivery important for supporting patient health, these programs actually reduce costs and offer compelling business opportunities. Lauran and Ben shared how they were able to provide care to patients with multiple chronic illnesses who have trouble accessing the traditional primary care system, while simultaneously reducing unnecessary ER visits, lengthy hospital stays and costly hospital readmissions. Their model delivered healthcare’s triple aim of delivering better health, better care and lower costs. The case study illustrated that the hospital system not only provided extraordinary care, but realized a 23% return on their investment and increased their total profit margin – showing the synergy between margin and mission. Their inspiring talk and presentation was a reaffirmation of principles we promote here at HCCI.

If your hospital or health system is interested in learning more about home-based primary care and advanced care delivery models, the Home Centered Care Institute would be happy to help. Contact us at 630-283-9210 or [email protected].

 

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The Exam Table Of The Future Has Throw Pillows

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C-TAC HCCI Gold SponsorPlease join HCCI on Wednesday, October 10th at the C-TAC National Summit on Advanced Illness Care where we present a breakout session on home-based primary care titled “The Exam Table Of The Future Has Throw Pillows”.

Wednesday, October 10 (1:30 – 2:30pm)
Denver Hilton City Center
Denver, CO
Home-Based Primary Care (HBPC) is hard, and it is a model of care that requires a wide array of skills, not all of them clinical. The challenging nature of the model necessitates a methodical, disciplined approach. But why does it matter? Learn why HBPC is a model whose time has come again and how HBPC programs can be built or improved in a strategic, systematic manner.

The session will be presented by;

  • Thomas Cornwell, MD, CEO, Home Centered Care Institute (HCCI)
  • Tracy Hulett, VP, External Affairs, Home Centered Care Institute (HCCI)
  • Eric de Jonge, Executive Director, MedStar House Call Program
  • Kelly Fischer, COO, JourneyCare
  • Jessica Bylander, Senior Editor, Health Affairs (moderator)

Register now: https://www.ctacsummit.org/

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Nurse Practitioners Bring Back the House Call

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Michael J. Kingan, DNP, AGPCNP-BC, CWOCN, an adult-geriatric nurse practitioner at MedStar Health and instructor with HCCI, penned an article in the current September/October issue of Today’s Geriatric Medicine titled “Nurse Practitioners Bring Back the House Call”.  You can read the article here: http://bit.ly/todays_geriatric_medicine_article

Michael has taught HCCI’s Essential Elements to Home-Based Primary Care™ since 2017. If you’re interested in expanding your knowledge and career opportunities in the growing field of home-based primary care, visit HCCI at http://hccinstitute.org

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Home-Based Primary Care – Reducing Readmissions and Meeting Healthcare’s Triple Aim

Readmission News Article

Tom Cornwell, MD, CEO of the Home Centered Care Institute, was recently interviewed by Readmissions News, a publication for hospital and health system executives.  In the Q&A, Dr. Cornwell shares why house calls are important to the healthcare industry today.  He goes on to explain how and why home-based primary care meets healthcare’s “triple aim” – improving the quality of life for our nation’s most complex patients, delivering substantially better experiences for patients and caregivers, and dramatically reduces health care costs. Finally, he discusses the challenges related to providing house calls to the nearly 4 million chronically ill, medically complex homebound patients who would benefit from HBPC.

Read the article here

If your hospital or hospital system is interested in lowering readmissions and reducing readmission penalties, HCCI can help. Call us at 630-283-9210

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Leveraging the Knowledge and Experience of HBPC Experts to Help Your House Call Program Succeed

Brent Feorene is a practice management expert and consultant in the field of home-based primary care medicine. Home-based primary care (HBPC) or “house calls” are making a resurgence because they better serve the needs of the four million frail, chronically ill, medically-complex, homebound patients in the US who have trouble accessing the traditional office-based healthcare system.

Hospitals sometimes refer to these patients as frequent flyers or MVPs (multi visit patients) because of their frequent trips to the ER and disproportionately high number of hospital admissions and readmissions. Getting primary care to these patients in their home is proving to meet the triple aim of better outcomes, higher patient satisfaction, and cost savings. In this video Brent describes some the unique challenges that hospitals and physician practices face as they consider providing care to patients at home.

HCCI has convened and continues to work with industry experts from around the country to set standards, develop HBPC training and assist providers and hospitals at all levels attain greater levels of success.

If your hospital or hospital system is seeking ways to reduce readmissions and improve it’s bottom line, contact HCCI for assistance and training implementing a house call program.

The Home Centered Care Institute (HCCI) is a national non-profit organization focused on advancing home-based primary care (HBPC) to ensure that chronically ill, medically complex and homebound patients have access to high-quality care in their home. HCCI works with leading academic medical centers, health systems and industry experts to raise awareness of and advocate for expanding the HBPC model by growing the HBPC workforce through education and training and developing a research-based model for sustainable house call program implementation and growth.

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Advances in Technology Help Support Home-Based Medical Care

In the 1930’s, it was common practice for physicians to visit patients in their homes if the patients were too sick or injured to seek care in the doctor’s office or hospital. Nearly 40% of doctor-patient visits took place in the home. These “house calls” reduced stress on the patient and caregiver and gave the added benefit of giving the physician a unique perspective of the patient’s surroundings and issues that may be contributing to his/her condition.  But, by the 1950’s, house calls diminished as advances in technology equipped medical offices and hospitals to perform more diagnostic tests, as well as monitor and treat greater numbers of patients.

Today, thanks to the latest advances in modern technology, there are many pieces of medical diagnostic, treatment and monitoring equipment which have been made portable and can be brought into the patient’s home. These medical devices include; X-Ray, EKG, Ultrasound, Bladderscan, Point-of-Care Blood Analysis, Wireless data-sharing blood pressure monitoring, Glucose monitoring, and more.

Thanks in part to this new, portable technology, house call physicians and nurse practitioners can better diagnose, treat and monitor frail, chronically ill, medically complex, homebound patients in their home – reducing stress on the patient and caregiver, eliminating expensive medical transportation costs, reducing the chance of hospital-acquired infections, and often reducing the total cost to the system by reducing unnecessary ER visits and lengthy hospital stays.

In this video, you’ll see an x-ray technician demonstrate rolling a portable x-ray machine into a patient’s apartment and capture a chest and wrist x-ray.

If you’re interested in learning more about the growing field of house call medicine and home-based primary care, call or visit the Home Centered Care Institute (HCCI) at 630-283-9210 or http://hccinstitute.org.