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Misconceptions of Employer Sponsored Direct Primary Care (DPC)

Plum Health

Direct Primary Care (DPC) has emerged as a viable, high-quality primary care model that liberates itself from the constraints of traditional fee-for-service (FFS) products. Thus, DPC forms a better long-term investment focused on preventive care, as opposed to only treating patients post-diagnosis.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

But yet the changes we saw, the transitions we saw, but we didn’t transition the care. That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. ” And I too was just drawn to … from a clinical perspective, from a research perspective, just this revolving door through the emergency room.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

We talk with Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones about the hospital-at-home movement, which has been shown to reduce costs, improve outcomes and improve the patient experience. How is it financed and what comes next? 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. This is before value-based care, all of that.

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