Alivia Care has launched Alivia Care @ Dwelling, an initiative geared toward reaching sufferers earlier. CEO Susan Ponder-Stansel described Alivia Care @ Dwelling as a further help alternative.

“We’re within the Medicare-certified house well being business, and we’re within the non-public sector, and we’ve had palliative care for a very long time,” she informed Dwelling Well being Care Information. “However what we’ve been engaged on at Alivia is a extra complete answer.”

Alivia Care, based mostly in Jacksonville, Florida, supplies house well being care, hospice care, private care, palliative care, superior care planning, and PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Take care of the Aged) companies in North Florida and South Georgia.

At Alivia Care @ Dwelling we provide a extra complete answer, which means sufferers have the chance to take part in a dialog about care objectives whereas concurrently receiving care.

“We actually needed to develop one thing the place we may begin assessing, whereas we have been offering glorious house care, whether or not it was time to possibly have a dialogue about objectives of care and herald our palliative care group,” Ponder-Stansel mentioned. “Whether or not the particular person needs hospice in some unspecified time in the future or wants extra of palliative care, it’s a chance to listen to extra concerning the stage of their sickness, ask some questions and get some good info.”

The principle driver behind this system was the corporate's discovery that about 55% of sufferers who obtain Medicare-certified house care may also be eligible for hospice care inside a yr, Ponder-Stansel mentioned.

The concept behind Alivia Care @ House is that sufferers can by no means enter by the incorrect door.

“We are able to cope with them at totally different levels of their illness, or in several methods,” Ponder-Stansel mentioned. “Every service stands alone, however for sufferers who actually need extra of a progressive system, extra assist, they are often put collectively in a means that meets the wants of the affected person otherwise than, say, episodic take care of house well being, which is what we do. That is only a new means of placing them collectively in a means that follows the affected person and actually fills a niche in care proper now.”

At the moment, every service has its personal income stream, however Ponder-Stansel says Alivia Care@House is designed with future value-based care objectives in thoughts.

“If we’re in that house, the place we’re partnering with an present ACO to take over the administration of their high-needs sufferers — as a result of that’s one thing that quite a lot of the overall monitor, REACH ACOs battle with — that is precisely the sort of answer that might not solely ship nice affected person outcomes, but in addition show you how to with value-based or risk-based reimbursements,” she mentioned. “Since you’re avoiding occasions and prices that basically don’t enhance affected person outcomes by having this care navigation.”

Ponder-Stansel believes that house care suppliers who additionally present hospice care have the chance to coach their house care employees in what progressive illness appears to be like like.

“I feel all alongside the continuum we're very targeted on stopping readmissions and actually serving to sufferers not have to return to the hospital,” she mentioned. “If we're simply offering episodic care and simply pondering transactionally, we might miss the truth that somebody we're caring for is at a stage the place they need assistance to grasp that they’ve one other alternative and how one can discover that useful resource. I simply assume it's an ideal alternative for excellent coaching.”