Case Study: Bon Secours Home Care

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We received your grievance request regarding your monthly explanation of benefits showing services for a walker that you never received nor need. This request was received by Blue Cross® Blue Shield® of Arizona Advantage (HMO) on December 30, 2016

Many aging Americans often struggle to pay for home care, assisted living and other forms of long term care. When choosing the right type of care much consideration and research should be given. In determining whether one must self-fund their care can be a process which can leave the door open for many unanswered questions. Questions like, what is the expected cost, will Medicare help to cover any cost, or can one use their property to pay the cost for long term care. Since elder care and senior care can be in a variety of forms, the biggest concern is who takes on the brunt of payments. According to Benjamin (2015), “99% of our services are a private pay product with some assistance for veterans; long-term care insurance does account for part of the remaining 1%, along with some waivers provided by Medicare. “Private Pay can be funded by savings and investments, long term care insurance or annuities, social security or other retirement benefits, Veterans’ benefits, and through the conversion of a life insurance policy into a Life Care Benefit Plan or Long Term Care Benefit Plan” (Orestis, 2013, para 1). Most anyone can pay or arrange their care cost, however cost is usually determined by ones need and where they live.

After a review of the clinical information provided by Ocean Breeze Home Care, the Medical Director has determined that power operated vehicle and the power operated vehicle accessory is not medically necessary. The information presented is limited, consisting of a diagnosis and proposed services for a scooter (Power Operated Vehicle). The information we have does not support a scooter as a viable option for you; with severe shoulder capsulitis, limitation of motion, weakness in your upper extremities and an inability to take more than a step without a walker. We would recommend that you have another evaluation as to what is the best equipment considering your present condition and activity of daily living abilities. Without clinical information

In order to be properly prepared for an outage in the magnitude of what transpired to the CareGroup network, systems and process control may have prevented this unfortunate event from occurring. Instituting a preventive approach to network functionality and security, along with a contingency plan to deal with failures or breaches to the system should have been in place.

The lifestyle of individuals remain an essential element in ensuring that the adult population maintains good health through the provision of a home-based care for different workers who play an essential role in the promotion of healthy lifestyles among this population. It is consequently essential to determine that, the adult population needs to be provided with non-medical care aimed at improving their levels of physical activity and dietary changes in order to improve their health. In this case, Trident Homecare provider’s aims to develop an effective training program that is directed towards educating different care provider’s with effective approaches of providing care to this population especially those who present different ailments and those with special needs that come with age.

In 2013, Dorota Slawa Mankowska et al, worked on real study for a home care company that present the care for the at patients in their homes by staff members. They developed the mathematical model that aim to optimizing economical service cost and take care about individual qualifications of the staff, time preferences of patients, number of the staff required to this patient and certain time of patient’s drugs. This model has been able to achieve low average waiting times for patients, low traveling cost for caregivers, a fair distribution of inevitable tardiness, and service hundred patients in acceptable runtime.

It started 06/27/2014, my father was admitted in the hospital for breathing problems. At this time his lungs was collapsing to where he had to be put on a ventilator i almost lost him, he woke up 2 weeks later but had to remain on the ventilator, while on this his health went up and down he was tranferred from the hospital to a long term care facility to where they were not taking care of him properly i almost lost him twice so he was transferred to another faility lets just say it was a year long battle i had to learn medical terminology so i could keep up with what was going on and til this day im still taking care of him i want to study this fiedl because i feel as though i can help people in need because i would take my job and the customers

On 10/9/17 at 2:30pm the patient’s aide’s father, Jacques lemonta, called New Century Home Care to inform that the patient, Divers Mary, and his daughter, Limonta Natania, were hit by the car on 10/09/17 and taken to Jamaica hospital. Patient and aide condition has not provided at this time. Well Care and patient’s PCP notified.

The individual has lived with a parent for this whole life and after twenty-four years is removed from the family home and placed in the care of a social service agency where immediate housing is secured. This transition from living in the family home to now living in residential setting with housemate’s and direct care staff who are unknown to him is difficulty on him as he misses the daily connection to his family and is in unknown environment with strangers. He experiences feelings of being trapped and insecure in his new enviroment. He is open to developing new relationships with his housemates and staff and tries to build these relationships by participating in chores and activities in the home when asked by others. However, he struggles with completing new tasks asked of him because he has never engaged in them prior to this placement.

One way in which the professionals working at Homelea’s care home could benefit from taking a holistic approach to planning a support plan for Annie is that they would be able to recognize what they need to do and whom they need to join or speak with in their multi-disciplinary team. Once the multi-disciplinary team is formed, they will be able to discuss what they think would be best for Annie and finding all the resources in which will effectively contribute to meeting her needs. To add to this, when working in a multi-disciplinary team, professionals would be open to many suggestions in which they wouldn’t have initially thought of themselves, working together as a team full of professionals from different organizations or services will

As a larger proportion of the population retires and becomes more dependent on long term healthcare, many in the elderly population look to in-home care in order to have their needs met while still retaining independence and normalcy. However, the drastic increase of people looking to in-home health care is putting a strain on the workforce responsible for taking care of these individuals. As a result, family members end up taking the role of caregiver for their elder parent or family member. Those in the home care setting face a variety of issues: abuse and neglect; lack of reporting; and lack of training for caregivers, social workers, police, and those in the criminal justice system. However, these problems can be reduced

If I were a consultant for my place of employment, which is Spring Meadows Nursing Home the advice that I would offer to senior management on improving the organization's performance management culture, employee orientation, training, and development.

Millions of older people, those 65 and older, has slipped or fallen off their feet even when inside the house each year. Falling once increases the chance of falling again. This makes falls or slips as a major threat to older adult’s quality of life.

A more explicit finding demonstrates how the care work environment influence the relationship between home care workers, clients, and the families. Meyer (2015) conducted an anthropology research focusing on immigrant care workers from South America to Genoa, the city with the highest percentage of the older population in Italy, to provide private home care services. The study included focus group, group interviews, and individual interviews during 2009-2010. She approached the participants at Spanish-language church services, care worker training courses, and other immigrant events. Historical settings regarding the labor unions in Italy, social understanding, and political