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ESTATE & JEWELRY BUYERS
help a family dealing with medi-
cal issues, vocational rehabilita-
tion and daunting Social Security
and Medicare applications.
Rehabilitation nurses, certified
case managers, social workers
and psychologists react to a fam-
ily's unexpected crisis with the
required expertise.
The company's newest service
aims at reducing hospital readmis-
sion rates for the elderly. Just last
year, a study in the New England
Journal of Medicine showed 20
percent of hospitalized Medicare
patients returned to the hospital
within 30 days of being dis-
charged. In half of these cases,
patients had not seen a doctor
between admissions, suggesting
follow-up care had not been opti-
mal. The estimated cost for these
readmissions: $17 billion.
The Care Transitions
Readmission Management
Program (RAMP) provides
24-hour monitoring for clients
being discharged from the hospi-
tal. Components of the program
include care transition coach visits
at the hospital before patients are
discharged and at-home visits
after discharge. The program also
involves phone calls to ensure
medical follow-up, medication
management and discussion of
the red flags patients should be
aware of. State-of-the-art remote
health monitoring devices, such
as Telehealth and Vital Signs
Connect, are also employed.
"When someone goes into the
hospital, it is not only a catastro-
phe for the individual patient —
physically and emotionally — but
for the entire family. Hospital
readmissions are disruptive as
well as being expensive Feinberg
said. "We are providing a safety
net to minimize readmissions.
Working with a patient's primary
care physician, we are going to do
everything we can to keep them
out of hospital and prevent a lot of
heartache
Feinberg Consulting Inc.'s website
Your neighborhood experts
for the
Purchase and Sale of
Estate Jewelry, Precious Metals,
Coins and Valuables
Phone: 248.723.4653
33366 Woodward Avenue
Birmingham, MI 48009
(Just north of Fourteen Mile, east side of Woodward)
www.estateandjewelrybuyers.corn
is www.feinbergconsulting.com .
July 7 2011
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