Payment reform has been a long time coming and will help physicians finally get off the hamster wheel of fee-for-service. With a new model that pays primary care providers to shift to value-based care, they can keep track of and provide the best possible care for every patient in their practice.
Recently HealthBI’s CareEmpower® platform was selected as the central technology for AHCCCS’s Complete Care program, which integrates physical and behavioral health services together to treat all aspects of a members’ health.
New technologies and nice amenities go a long way in creating a positive experience for patients and providers. But the things that really make patients happy are free. Below is a list of things providers can do—from simple courtesies to sincere empathy—that go a long way in engendering patient trust, referrals, and satisfaction.
Elias A. was experiencing the perfect storm of bad health and lack of access to culturally competent healthcare. The 71-year-old Hispanic man had end-stage renal disease, uncontrolled diabetes and high blood pressure. He also was suffering from undiagnosed depression with social and cultural factors impacting his overall health.
When Equality Health Care Team Nurse Rachel Jozaites first met Becky, a 36-year-old Native American woman with a history of alcohol abuse, Becky’s liver was failing. “She was so ill, I thought she was going to die,” Rachel said.
Equality Health founder and CEO Hugh Lytle was recently asked “What have you identified most recently as your greatest risk to the ongoing successof your company, and what did you do to prevent it or overcome it?” by inBusiness magazine, read his response.
According to an article in mentalhealthamerica.net, clinical depression has become one of America’s most costly illnesses. Left untreated, depression is as expensive as heart disease or AIDS to the US economy, costing over $51 billion in absenteeism from work and lost productivity and $26 billion in direct treatment costs.
Chaplain Cesar Tellez was asked to provide spiritual and emotional support for Maria, a 15-year-old teenage cancer patient, and her family. A member of the Equality Health Care Coordination Team, Cesar didn’t realize that the seemingly routine home visit would quickly turn to a life-and-death situation.
Equality Health is excited to partner with Wellness AtoZ, a program through the Greater Phoenix Chamber Foundation that offers free solutions for businesses who believe in making Arizona and the Greater Phoenix region a destination for healthy talent and a healthy community.
Health care is an industry that has been, and always will be, steeped in compassion. It’s a necessary part of the job in order to heal both body and mind. However, in the pursuit of compassion for all, differences in cultures are sometimes forgotten and, in that misstep, we also miss providing the best health care that we can.