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Prioritizing Mental Health as a Universal Human Right
By: Neltada Charlemagne, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC, PHN, BHC
Landmark Health’s medical professionals provide in-home treatment and care support for patients in alignment with HCP-established care goals.
Landmark Health helps your practice by following your patients’ care plans in the home environment. Landmark’s medical team provides in-home treatment and care support for your patients that follow your established care goals.
By offering in-home treatment, Landmark can observe the home environment, fall hazards, food quality and accessibility, and other indicators of health.
Our post-hospital discharge visits help ensure that patients are healing efficiently and following discharge instructions. Landmark also performs a careful medication review, to ensure there are no issues with drug interactions or redundancy in prescription drugs. These follow-up visits give patients the opportunity to ask questions, understand their health status, and learn how they can best heal and can reduce hospital readmission risk.
With our doctors helping bridge the gap from hospital to home, Landmark patients have a 60% lower risk of readmission than patients who don’t receive a post-discharge visit. [do we need to verify this stat or reference it?]
Landmark has access to patient medical records and maintains regular contact with your practice to keep you up-to-date on any changes. We help ensure that your care goals are clearly communicated to, and understood by, your patients. We can help keep your patients on the right track when you can’t be there.
For a loved one or caregiver, balancing life and caregiving can be difficult. The Landmark team provides caregivers with 24/7 phone support and information, to help them feel more comfortable. And caregivers are always welcome to participate in their loved one’s home medical visits if the patient would like.
Studies show that the chronically ill are more likely to experience issues of loneliness and seclusion. Landmark assesses the behavioral health status of patients in the home. Landmark has social workers and behavioral health specialists who can help ensure patients’ behavioral needs are met. Updates and action plans are communicated to the primary care provider.
Landmark works to ensure that patients get the supplementary care they need between visits to their primary care provider and specialists. Our medical professionals are advocates for patients that make sure their health needs are addressed.
Patients with multiple chronic conditions often require additional care and support With Landmark Health, your most complex patients will have an in-home advocate that understands their health and augments your care plan.
Call us today to learn how Landmark’s in-home medical care can help your patients at 1-833-HC-MY-WAY.
By: Neltada Charlemagne, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC, PHN, BHC
Older adults can safeguard themselves from the physical, mental and emotional toll of unexpected medical costs.
Optum Care Network – Monarch has teamed up with Landmark to deliver in-home medical care to members with multiple chronic conditions.