PROVIDENCE – A new service offered by CharterCARE Health Partners and its affiliate CharterCARE Provider Group of Rhode Island offers chronically ill patients a chance to see physicians in their homes.
The recently-announced Care@Home program allows for visits of up to an hour for at-risk patients who are members of CharterCARE Provider Group of Rhode Island, an independent physician association that includes 550 doctors.
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Created to streamline care for patients with complex medical needs, Care@Home helps doctors, patients and their family members manage medical needs and medications, and reduce emergency room visits and hospitalizations.
Using an integrated care plan enhances CharterCARE’s ability to care for chronically ill patients who are living at home, said Jeff Liebman, CharterCARE’s CEO.
“It will also help us to level if not decrease the costs of care provided to the chronically ill,” he added.
Elizabeth Graham is a PBN contributing writer.
This is wonderful news you are filling a gap that exists within healthcare. Senior don’t want to spend hours in the ER but often have no choice is they are not physically able to get to a doctors office visit. Even if they are able too often doctors offices are not equipped to handle physically challenged seniors so the ER is their only alternative.