Help Choose Home

In today's episode, Carla Davis, Senior Vice President of Hospice Operations at the LHC Group, discusses many of the little-known benefits of hospice care, as well as some of the misconceptions that surround the hospice benefit. This discussion will surely help listeners to navigate hospice care for a loved one.

Today's episode discusses:

• A brief history of hospice in the United States
• Misconceptions around who hospice care is for and what services are offered in the benefit
• The many benefits that hospice care can provide to both an individual and their loved ones
• Where we should go as a country in order to make hospice care more accessible

In today's episode, we discuss the many challenges facing the pediatric home care field in their journey to advocate and care for medically fragile children. One innovative company that's helping in this fight is Team Select Home Care. Today, we talk to the President and CEO of Team Select to get his thoughts.

In today's episode, we discuss:

• Team Select's unique approach to pediatric home care
• How COVID-19 has affected care for medically fragile children
• An innovative solution to a huge problem in pediatric home care

In today's episode, Alice Bonner, PhD, RN, FAAN, Director of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing CAPABLE Program and Senior Advisor for the Institute for Health Improvement (IHI), explains the work she now does with CAPABLE and IHI, along with her over 30 years of nursing experience. CAPABLE stands for Community Aging in Place – Advancing Better Living for Elders. While focusing on function and cost, CAPABLE links a registered nurse, handy worker, and occupational therapist together to create a network of care that helps aging adults live more safely and independently at home.

In today's episode, we discuss:

• The CAPABLE Program and how it impacts the field of home care.
• The ways programs like the CAPABLE Program have started to spread across the country.
• Bonner's work with the Institute for Health Improvement.

In today's episode, we talk to Maria Botham, the Founder and CEO of The Loop Village, a unique online community created for older adults. Botham created The Loop Village with her cofounder after realizing the effect that isolation from COVID-19 was causing in seniors. She talks more about the ideas behind The Loop Village, as well as how the special online space is changing how older adults socialize as they age at home.

In today's episode, we discuss:

• What The Loop Village is and how it came about
• The Loop Village's unique design
• How socialization through The Loop Village can help older adults

In today's episode, we talk to Bob Roth, Managing Partner of Cypress HomeCare Solutions. Speaking from an extensive career in home care, Roth, who is also the radio show host of Health Future and writes the monthly column, "Aging Today," discusses his work with Cypress HomeCare. He also goes on to explain how consumers in the home care field can benefit from using an employee-based agency as opposed to hiring a private caregiver, which may lead to more liability on the consumer. Roth also explained some of the pressing workforce issues in the home care field and some of the things that can help solve those issues.

In today's episode, we discuss:

• The personal experience that led Bob Roth to home care
• The benefits of an employee-based agency
• Workforce issues in home care

In today's episode, we talk to Dr. Jay LaBine, Chief Medical Officer for naviHealth, about his work in value-based, senior-focused, post-acute care. With a medical career spanning over many years, Dr. LaBine's work with naviHealth centers around implementing programming that helps advocate for patients as they transition from receiving care in hospital or rehabilitation facilities to care at home. Through the lens of his work, he explains how patients can benefit from naviHealth's efforts.

In today's episode, we discuss:

• naviHealth's care model
• How Dr. LaBine got started in his career

• How naviHealth's services and Dr. LaBine's work can make the care transition experience easier for patients

In today's episode, we talk to Jason Bring, a health care partner at Arnall Golden Gregory who cochairs the law firm's National Post-Acute Care team and serves on the Board of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice. Bring also works with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization on legislative issues in the industry. Through both his position at Arnall Golden Gregory and his personal involvement in the home health care field, Bring offers a lot of information about how legislation is impacting home health care.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Bring's work affects home health care providers and consumers
• How current legislation is impacting the home health care field
• How legislation could potentially drive significant progress in home health care

In today's episode, we talk to Dr. Tom Cornwell, Senior Medical Director at Village Medical at Home. Village Medical at Home is part of VillageMD, an organization that partners with physicians to provide the tools, technology, operations, staffing support and industry relationships to deliver high-quality clinical care and better patient outcomes, while reducing the total cost of care. Dr. Cornwell has over 25 years of experience providing care at home and has made over 34,000 house calls in that time.

In this episode we discuss:

• Cornwell's career-long efforts in bringing care to patients' homes.
• Payment models that are influencing the trends of in home care.
• The importance of advocacy work in the home health care field.

In today's episode of Help Choose Home, we're joined by Brent Korte, chief home care officer of EvergreenHealth. He's also an active member of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice.

In this episode we discuss:

• How virtual care options are making home care even more viable than before
• The "hospital at home" initiative and how it's revolutionizing the way vulnerable populations receive health care
• The ways the National Association for Home Care and Hospice is working towards greater equity in health care

In today's episode of Help Choose Home, we're joined by Dr. Timothy Ihrig, the Chief Medical Officer of Crossroads Hospice and Palliative Care. He's also the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ihrig MD and Associates. He is an internationally recognized expert in hospice and palliative care and a second time guest of the podcast.

In this episode we discuss:

• How to know when curative medical treatments are actually causing harm to an elderly patient
• How the financial imperatives of the medical industry lead to unnecessary invasive treatments
• Why becoming comfortable with death is the secret to living a full life