The telehealth alerts were potentially alarming: a health plan member in her nineties with multiple chronic conditions was presenting with a low-grade fever and shortness of breath. When Geralda Pelissier, a nurse practitioner with VNSNY Care360° Solutions, followed up telephonically, she could hear from the member’s speech pattern that she was struggling more than usual for […]
An Interview with the Head of VNSNY Care360° Solutions
Rose Madden-Baer, Senior Vice President for Population Health and Clinical Support Services, discusses how the care management model is revolutionizing home health care.
Health Data Management Features VNSNY’s Care Management Organization
Health Data Management reports that VNSNY Care360° Solutions has selected a platform from Netsmart to support its population health management program. The platform meets VNSNY’s needs for a system that allows real-time data sharing and communication across care models and insurance products. VNSNY Care360° Solutions will use the Carequality interoperability framework, which will allow the […]
Helping America’s Seniors Manage Chronic Health Issues at Home
by Marki Flannery, President and CEO It was the cough that first alerted a caregiver checking by telephone on Brenda, an 82-year-old retired school librarian living with COPD, asthma, diabetes, hypertension, and other chronic illnesses. Brenda’s home health aide joined the phone call and noted that her client’s chilly apartment seemed to prompt the cough. […]
Becoming a Leading Care Management Organization
Value-based payments are where home care is heading—and VNSNY, with its expertise in care coordination, is at the forefront of this movement.
VNSNY’s Care Management Program for Advanced Illness Earns Accolade from CMS
Using specialized algorithms, the AIM team regularly reviews VNSNY’s medical records to identify those patients and plan members with the highest mortality risk
Preventing Rehospitalizations through Comprehensive Care Management
The blizzard outreach is just one example of the attention VNSNY gives to patients admitted to our care under value-based models
Home Health Care News Interviews Andria Castellanos
Andria Castellanos, VNSNY’s Executive Vice President and Chief of Provider Services, on the importance of home health care in managing patients successfully.
How Technological Innovation Is Revolutionizing Home-Based Care Management
The industry’s traditional focus on hospitals and doctors’ offices is being supplanted by a growing emphasis on home- and community-based networks of care
VNSNY Study Shows Early Home Nursing Visits Help Reduce Sepsis-Related Readmissions
New research on patients recently hospitalized for sepsis shows that home care and physican follow up reduced their likelihood of being re-hospitalized.
The Way Forward in Health Care: Timely Innovations and Timeless Compassion
VNSNY’s new Care Management division works with insurers to provide extra support to people living at home with seven, eight, or more chronic illnesses.
Crain’s New York Business Features VNSNY Care360° Partnership with Chinese Community ACO
News that VNSNY Care360° Solutions has partnered with the Chinese Community Accountable Care Organization (CCACO) was featured in the February 25 edition of Crain’s New York Business. The partnership marks VNSNY Care360° Solutions’s first with an accountable care organization. In this arrangement, VNSNY Care360° will provide care management services—including initial in-home assessments, home care monitoring and […]