As I watched family members age, each went through a very different process of managing their health in their final years. Some spent time in an assisted living facility, some in a nursing home, and one spent her remaining time at home with the support of home health services.
Here’s a startling fact about rising health care costs in the US: fifty percent of total costs can be directly linked to just five percent of the total US patient population. These patients, commonly referred to as high-utilizers or super-utilizers, tend to have complex medical needs and, often, limited resources. In fact, they look a…
According to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 60 percent of patients entering the hospital are malnourished.[1] These patients have longer inpatients stays and higher health care costs than their well-nourished counterparts. Health care organizations are looking for creative solutions to this problem, and a number of exciting collaborations, pilot programs, and research studies throughout…
Six months ago, I was hired at Project Angel Heart to help build a cutting-edge program and bring food as medicine to healthcare in Colorado in a bigger way. Through the Meals for Care Transitions program, my job is to work with health care providers to deliver medically modified, made-from-scratch meals to patients as part…
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