People with multiple medical conditions usually have several professional providers, and are prescribed numerous medications. We help manage these or this situations by providing:
- Coordination of physician care to facilitate communication between specialty physicians
- Medical advocacy, to assist you in navigating the complex medical system and ensure that your loved one receives the care they are entitled to
- Reporting, through a customized and fluid program, to help keep you and other family members informed
- Updates on functional status to the different professionals and contacts who are prescribing and treating the client
- Arrangements for advance directives
- Arrangements or assistance with insurance payments
- Arrangements for outside services such as meal delivery, healthcare alert devices, or trips into the community for social stimulation
- Arrangements for renewal and pick-up of prescriptions from doctors and pharmacies
- Accompanying client on appointments to doctors’ offices
- Introduction of homecare workers
- Careful screening and matching of caregivers to family/patient needs, including attention to any kind of family preference
- Continuity of care throughout transitions, from home to hospital to Assisted Living Facility or other care community as needed