what you gain
Peace of mind with control over your care and life
The directive in the National Academy of Medicine, March 2017 outlines measuring what matters, empowering people, connecting care, and paying for value – for policy makers.
hcAware education is the first and only offering for teaching what that means to people, their families and POAs while in the population, before they become patients. The healthcare industry has great focus on data regarding outcomes. hcAware is about individual stories that data will never capture.
hcAware education is the first and only offering for teaching what that means to people, their families and POAs while in the population, before they become patients. The healthcare industry has great focus on data regarding outcomes. hcAware is about individual stories that data will never capture.
why awareness is needed
medical errors: wrong drug, wrong or missed diagnosis, wrong treatment, wrong patient, etc.
symptom = prescription: without diagnosis, and not removing drugs causing side effects = more symptoms
hospital/healthcare acquired infections (HAIs): bacterial/viral/fungal-surgical site (SSI), catheters, ventilator, IVs, etc.
hospital/healthcare acquired conditions (HACs): clots, falls, items left in the body, needle sticks, bedsores/decubitus, etc.
symptom = prescription: without diagnosis, and not removing drugs causing side effects = more symptoms
hospital/healthcare acquired infections (HAIs): bacterial/viral/fungal-surgical site (SSI), catheters, ventilator, IVs, etc.
hospital/healthcare acquired conditions (HACs): clots, falls, items left in the body, needle sticks, bedsores/decubitus, etc.
795,000 Americans a year die or are permanently disabled after being misdiagnosed.
Claire Thornton USA TODAY, July 2023
Transition from health care to healthcare (some refer to sick care)
https://www.delphinehc.com/blog/us-healthcare-costs-admin-overhead-to-physician-growth
How care can quickly go off the rails |
The public is inundated with politics, insurance reimbursements and wellness conversations. HC Aware is about useful information that is available, but the public is unaware of how to find it, translate it, and use it. Many in the public don't know what they don't know regarding quality care delivery.
How Care Can quickly go off the rails without a care champion.
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- Don’t put your patients at risk due to poor communication How to Stop Making Patients Pay the Price for Poor Communications because thirty percent of malpractice lawsuits cite communication as a contributing factor. Communication is also cited as a root cause in 21 percent of sentinel events.
- Medical errors are No. 3 cause of death in the US Written by Heather Punke | May 04, 2016 The CDC lists chronic respiratory diseases as the No. 3 cause of death in the U.S., …but researchers from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins …analyzed data from an eight-year period and found medical errors are the true third leading cause of death in the U.S.
- The Sad Direction of Healthcare a veteran physician's perspective.
- Sepsis cost Medicare more than $6 billion in 2015, which is more than any other inpatient discharge, reported Modern Healthcare. Sepsis, which is a life-threatening response to an infection that can lead to tissue damage, organ failure and death, kills about 250,000 people in the U.S. annually and is a leading cause of death for intensive care unit patients.
solution of Center for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS) ruling
CMS partnered with acute care centers (hospitals)
CMS - PERSON & FAMILY ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY Enhance person and family engagement (PFE)
- Establish definitions and consistency for frequently used terms to help people engage in their healthcare.
- Serve as a guide to support meaningful, intentional application of person and family engagement principles to all policies and programs addressing health, and wellbeing.
- Create a foundation for expanding awareness and enhance person and family engagement.
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hcAware is about informing-empowering people, their families and/or power of attorneys (POAs) about engagement for championing their care
Awareness of PFE for the population, the need to partner - how to partner - and understanding what quality care delivery means with positive outcomes |
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CMS ruling: Physicians, nurses, hospitals, employers, patients and their advocates, and the federal and State governments have joined together to form the Partnership for Patients. Learn more about who is in the Partnership The Partnership for Patients aims to engage 100% of the nation's acute care medical centers participating in making hospital care safer, more reliable, and less costly through the achievement of two goals:
Making Care Safer. Keep patients from getting injured or sicker. Decrease all- cause patient harm (to 97 Hospital-Acquired Conditions [HACs]/1,000 discharges) by 20% percent compared to the 2014 interim baseline (of 121 HACs/1,000 patient discharges).
Improving Care Transitions. Help patients heal without complications. Decrease preventable complications during a transition from one care setting to another so all 30 day hospital readmissions would be reduced by 12% as a population-based measure (readmissions per 1,000 people).
Making Care Safer. Keep patients from getting injured or sicker. Decrease all- cause patient harm (to 97 Hospital-Acquired Conditions [HACs]/1,000 discharges) by 20% percent compared to the 2014 interim baseline (of 121 HACs/1,000 patient discharges).
Improving Care Transitions. Help patients heal without complications. Decrease preventable complications during a transition from one care setting to another so all 30 day hospital readmissions would be reduced by 12% as a population-based measure (readmissions per 1,000 people).
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