At-Home Care
By initiating home care follow-up to the chronically ill, we provide for more patient-physician interaction in addition to reducing patients' reliance on emergency room visits and unnecessary hospitalizations. The doctor is able to develop a deep knowledge of the patient's living conditions, like health status, home environment, family dynamics, finances, behavioral issues and medication education.
Some patients must endure very stressful and expensive experiences when they go to the doctor. The home-visiting physician is a lifeline to care in times when an office visit is not feasible due to transportation or health status, or unavailable due to impacted office schedules. Our goal is to keep the patient healthy and happy at home, where they feel most comfortable.
Unlike ordinary appointments or emergency room visits, Family Physicians Group At-Home Care home visits can last for an hour or more and create a level of intimacy and understanding that is difficult to achieve in an office setting.
The Integrated Care program provides a continuum of care and link between patients, their primary care providers and specialists. The bond that develops between the home-visiting provider and patient gives the doctor a deep knowledge of that patient's living conditions, such as health status, home environment, family dynamics, finances, behavioral issues and medication education to help manage complex conditions.
- Primary Care Physician early recognition of decompensation of their chronic disease process
- Intensive home management to improve patient's condition
- Foster trust and bonding with patient
- Early intervention in the home and education satisfaction
- Home visits to assess patients as often as is indicated, and to ensure that post-discharge care is coordinated
- Monthly review of enrolled patient progress and improvement
- Those who suffer from chronic conditions
- Frequently hospitalized patients
- Patients who are functionally homebound
- Anyone with a history of frequent falls, nutritional problems and a poor functional level
For more information on this very convenient, very attentive and very complete new service from Family Physicians Group, call us at (407) 483-2002