Prevent Emergency Department Visits By Understanding PCP Relationships and Home Health Service Opportunities is proudly presented to you by National Association for Home Care & Hospice. Thank you. We hope that you enjoy your course.
Description:
Researchers investigated the prevalence of emergency department (ED) utilization by focusing on primary care provider (PCP) relationship support use by home health patients. This session provides a review of reasons why home health patients used the ED, coupled with preventable and non-preventable analysis. We will discuss when the home health patients could not wait for a home health visit, and the percent of patients using the on-call option versus following nurse and physician guidance to go immediately to the ED. This session will discuss the research findings, and which patients were admitted to the hospital from their ED visit. The researchers will identify opportunities for changing home health care options to better support the population of patients seeking assistance in an ED. The presenters will identify how PCP relationships are impacting home health patients and clinicians, payors, and providers.
Learning Objective 1:
Identify which patients chose to obtain services from an ED instead of receiving care and services from the home health staff.
Learning Objective 2:
Explain the impact a PCP relationship has and does not have on preventing ED visits, that resulted in hospital admissions versus return to home environment after visiting an ED.
Learning Objective 3:
Describe opportunities for home health staff to prevent ED admissions and hospital admissions, when current practices and on-call procedures fail to curb ED visits.
Faculty:
Mary Crandall PhD, RN
Nursing 1.0 Contact Hours awarded.
Nursing Contact Hours for this module will expire on October 15, 2025.