Welcome to Carehub Inc.
We organize a safe landing home for people after an acute stay, including any in-home support, and remain connected to ensure they receive the care they need, when and where they need it.
Today's healthcare environment is more complex than ever, leading to multiple care providers across multiple care settings. Lack of coordination can lead to care that's fragmented and poorly planned, resulting in potential medication errors and avoidable hospitalizations. The absence of a designated care coordinator can lead to poor communication, incomplete transfer of information, lack of education for patients and caregivers, and limited or no access to needed services.
Why Care Coordination is Important
Why Care Coordination is Important
Why Care Coordination is Important
According to CMS, when doctors and other health care providers work together and share information, patient's needs and preferences are known and communicated at the right time to the right people, and the information is used to provide safe, appropriate, and effective care. This can help to keep patients healthier longer, better manage chronic conditions and experience care that is consistent with their goals.
When doctors and other health care providers don’t communicate effectively with each other, treatments prescribed by different doctors for a patient’s different health issues might conflict or become unmanageable for the patient. The patient is more likely to get unnecessary repeat tests. Worse yet, lack of coordination can lead to negative health outcomes for patients, more use of emergency care, medication errors, poor transitions of care from hospital to home, and medical errors. These effects can have a larger negative impact on chronically ill patients or patients with multiple complex health conditions.
When Care Needs to Be Coordinated
Why Care Coordination is Important
Why Care Coordination is Important
There are several different points of contact in which care might need to be coordinated. That can include:
- Follow up care after an emergency hospital visit.
- Care between a patient’s primary care provider and multiple specialists for a chronic health condition.
- A temporary stay in a skilled nursing facility.
- Health care providers coordinating with social services to help a patient with social determinants of health, such as housing, transportation or food.