The Benefits of Accurate Care
Care coordination is a service that helps to fill the gaps between a family’s understanding of health care resources and a patient’s needs. Care coordination works to ensure every patient has access to the highest quality and most accurate, appropriate, and effective care.
How Care Coordinators Can Help
Care coordinators are trained professionals who understand the ins and outs of senior care in Utah. At Dignity Home Health and Hospice, our care coordinators offer you a single point of contact. This makes it easier to ask questions, learn about your options, and maintain communication over the weeks or months of care your parent or loved one receives.
Services Offered Through Care Coordination
Care coordinators come to your parent or loved one’s home to assess their physical needs as well as learn about their current prescriptions or medical equipment. They also assess mental and emotional needs and can recommend services from every specialty of health care. To support you and other caregivers, a care coordinator also helps you learn of applicable benefits or programs that can reduce costs for your family or connect you with peer support and other resources.
The following services, and more, may be recommended by your care coordinator:
Care coordinators come to your parent or loved one’s home to assess their physical needs as well as learn about their current prescriptions or medical equipment. They also assess mental and emotional needs and can recommend services from every specialty of health care. To support you and other caregivers, a care coordinator also helps you learn of applicable benefits or programs that can reduce costs for your family or connect you with peer support and other resources.
The following services, and more, may be recommended by your care coordinator:
Development & Management of a Care Plan
The initial assessment a care coordinator makes will inform their care plan — a suggested protocol of care to address your loved one’s mental & physical needs. The care plan will be explained to you and other family or caregivers and routinely adapted to adjust to your loved one’s changing needs.
Referrals
Our trusted referrals to various providers or programs are a simple way to alleviate the burden of finding qualified care. Your care coordinator can also communicate with these partners on your and your loved one’s behalf, if you choose.
Medical Equipment or Supply Ordering
Our direct connection to medical supply companies makes it easier and more affordable to have critical supplies like needles, diapers, and more shipped to your door.
Financial Application Support
Our care coordinators understand Medicare and Medicaid requirements inside and out. We can help you apply for assistance, manage paperwork, or direct you to other resources for Social Security and more.
Legal or Housing Assistance
As a trusted third-party advocate, we can help your senior loved one receive the legal representation they need or help them find affordable and safe housing through various programs and services.
Meal Delivery Coordination
Home-delivered meals may be available at little or no cost to your loved one through programs such as Meals on Wheels. We can help you understand your options and apply for assistance.
Veteran Programs
Navigating veteran benefits can be challenging, but we understand many of the policies of Veterans Affairs and can help you take advantage of cost-saving care.
Personal Care
If you want personal care to help make life at home easier for your loved one, we can connect you to local providers we recommend. This service can bridge the gap of daily living tasks for things such as meal preparation, laundry, bathing, and more.
How much does care coordination cost?
Quality care and knowledgeable support shouldn’t be a luxury. Coordination of senior care costs patients and their families zero dollars out of pocket; it’s a service that Dignity Home Health and Hospice offers free of charge for our patients.
Get Started with Expert Senior Care Coordination in Utah
Don’t try to muddle through the health care system, Medicare, or VA benefits on your own. Contact our local home health and hospice company today to learn how care coordination could benefit your loved one with superior care, while also making your job as a caregiver easier and less stressful. For more information about this service or our many other skilled medical services, contact us today.