Help Choose Home

Matt Hansen, who has a doctorate in physical therapy and serves as General Manager for Homespire, a new Intermountain Healthcare Company based in Utah, is our guest today. Matt's passion is in population health in addition to his provision of skilled Lifecare Management and Personal Skill services in the home. Matt Hansen uses his personal insights, education, and training to take a different approach to healthcare at home. Like many of our interviewees, Matt understands the importance of care management to success for the long term at home. Patient engagement is key to making positive strides in care at home.

Maryglenn Boals has spent her entire career focused on healthcare, insurance and the challenges faced by the aging and disabled. LTCi is her career path and her passion. She is a former licensed nursing home administrator, recognized locally and nationally for her work in the field of Aging. She is certified by the Corporation for Long Term Care, and has trained with one of the country's top elder law attorneys. Maryglenn holds a certificate in gerontology. But, her personal life experience has taught her how valuable knowing the ins and outs of long-term care can be. Understanding long-term care insurance coverage is a first step in appreciating how it can be used in planning for care at home.

Laura Page-Greifinger, BSN, MPA CEO of QIRT- Quality in Real Time. Laura has worked in home care and hospice for over 30 years as a nurse, supervisor, and clinical consultant. Her passion for home health care began in a rotation while in nursing school and that passion has continued to influence her work over the past few decades. A focus on the patient as an individual with individual needs starts with all care providers in their workflow processes or operations that create a patient journey from initial referral through reimbursement. Because home health care is 24/7/365 QIRT's employees come from 44 states and most work remotely. The company works 24/7/365 days a year.

Dr. Steven Landers a certified family doctor and geriatrician who is currently President and CEO of the Visiting Nurse Association Health Group, Inc., the nation's second-largest not-for-profit home health care organization servicing New Jersey and Ohio.

Dr. Landers is a graduate of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Dr. Landers has authored several articles on the role of home care in national publications, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medicine. Dr. Landers most recently joined the Huffington Post as a regular blogger focusing on health policy, family caregivers, and nurses and finding ways to improve quality and value in American health care.