The Case for the CARE Model
Innovative health and social care systems
Jason Helgerson's keynote deck from the World Health Congress Europe in Manchester February 2019
Dubbo hospital patients eligible for in-home telemonitoring - supplied with monitoring device for blood pressure, temperature, blood oxygen saturation, blood glucose, weight and ECG
Data is wirelessly transmitted back to community-based nurses who remotely monitor vital signs at least once a day
Means that patients who are unwell but don’t require frequent monitoring, can be cared for in the comfort of their own home
NSW, Australia: In NSW, integrated care is shifting from the innovation phase of integrated care to more consistent approaches for integrated care. All local health districts and two specialty health networks have been funded by NSW Health to develop their own models of care. Information from integrated care monitoring and evaluation are helping inform the ways of working that can be shared across areas.
Patients of Dubbo hospital are eligible for in-home telemonitoring.
Participation in the trial is free and patients are supplied with a monitoring device that is able
to measure blood pressure, temperature, blood oxygen saturation, blood glucose, weight
and ECG.
Data is wirelessly transmitted back to community-based nurses at Dubbo Hospital
who remotely monitor vital signs at least once a day. That means that patients
who are unwell but don’t require frequent monitoring, can be cared for in the comfort of their
own home.
(Source: https://wnswlhd.health.nsw.gov.au/integrated-care/latest-news/Documents/WNSW%20Tele-home%20monitoring%20trial%20Dubbo%20Media%20releaseFNL.pdf )
A grand opening celebration was held today at Greenport Gardens Apartments-a mixed affordable & supportive housing development in Hudson, NY. $1.7 Million in MRT supportive housing funding was invested for 25 units targeted to high-need Medicaid members. Housing=Healthcare! #SDOH
In one corner of Sydney, at Tharawal Aboriginal Corporation's Aboriginal Medical Service a number of initatives are underway:
Legal aid and Centrelink visit, and locals can pick up a healthy fruit and vegetable box for $20 so they can "enjoy good tucker all year round". There's also a community kitchen, dance and exercises, drug and alcohol programs and extensive mental health services.
Immunisation of children Ivory’s age 12 to 24 months and 24 to 36 months - which experts say is highly effective at closing the gap - is between 90 per cent and 97 per cent at the centre. That's about 20 per cent to 40 per cent higher than other Indigenous children and higher than in many non-Indigenous communities.
Bringing care to the center of the aboriginal community has improved population health. (Source: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/in-one-corner-of-sydney-hope-rises-as-the-gap-closes-20190214-p50xwm.html)