Amber Sims, Chief Strategy Officer for Ascension Tennessee, recently published a guest column in the Tennessean discussing how care at home benefits both patients and providers while supporting efforts to lower healthcare costs.
"Ascension is working to establish a new portfolio of services that will improve access, quality and patient experience," she says. "Pilot programs include converting low-acuity inpatient stays and post-acute services to customized home care; developing a service to help seniors age in place; and virtual extensions of our care teams to enhance chronic disease management."
Amber mentions Ascension's design research aimed at enhancing the patient experience and improving the outcomes of managing health in the home.
"We are investing in extensive projects to first understand various populations and then create solutions to move new care models forward. Five years from now, this won't be an emerging model — this will be the model," she says.
Click here for her column.
