Chicago Post Acute Care
What is Chicago Post Acute Care?
Post acute care provides a variety of medical services for patients who are suffering chronic symptoms of pain or discomfort due to surgery, a heart attack, a serious illness or an injury that has left them incapacitated. When a patient is experiencing these types of medical challenges, a post acute care facility can provide skilled care services to meet the individual’s needs.
Some patients, particularly the elderly, may require care in the comfort and privacy of the home and that’s where Anuco Home Health Care can make a difference in health outcomes. The goal is to ensure the successful healing and recovery of the patient while reducing the risk of readmission into the hospital. When patients are discharged and then readmitted for the same issue or a condition related to that original issue shortly after, it puts the patient at a much higher risk of negative health outcomes. The hospital that discharged the patient may also be forced to assume the costs of that second inpatient visit. But with high-quality post acute care, positive health outcomes are more likely to occur and the patient makes a full recovery from his or her illness or injury.
Transitional care
Post acute care services provide responsible medical care and symptom management. Whether this care is administered in a post acute care center or within the patient’s home, the patient is receiving the proper care services that best address the unique challenges of his or her medical condition. These services may include but are not limited to physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and skilled nursing care.
Transitional care that takes place once a patient has been discharged is critical for ensuring patient recovery so as to keep that individual from being readmitted into the hospital. Pain management is often a major component of post acute care, along with medication delivery, changing bandages or dressing, and overall monitoring of the patient’s recovery progress. Should a complication arise, post acute care offers a big advantage to the patient’s well-being as it gives nurses and doctors the opportunity to address the problem when or even before it threatens to hinder the recovery process or even threaten the health of the patient. Medical professionals are on hand to assist the patient and answer any questions about the type of care that is being administered.
These and other services can all be administered while the patient is at home and studies have shown that recovery inside the home and aging in place for the elderly result in positive patient outcomes and better quality of life.
What is the difference between acute and Chicago Post Acute Care?
But knowing which type of care is best suited for the patient’s medical needs and the care providers that are equipped to meet those needs is absolutely vital for realizing the best possible patient outcomes in the setting that will provide the greatest advantages for recovery. Keeping these factors in mind, let’s examine acute care vs. post acute care:
Acute Care
Acute care typically refers to medical care that involves an outpatient procedure or something more serious that may require a hospital stay of any length of time. This form of care is administered as an effective means of short-term treatment to address an event related to an illness, an injury sustained by the patient, a medical condition that requires emergency care, or recovery time after a surgical procedure.
Healthcare professionals who provide acute care can include everyone from admissions or emergency-room staff tasked with admitting the patient into the facility to receive care to the team of doctors, nurses, surgeons, and any other specialists or support personnel tasked with treating and providing the patient with comfort and safety.
Chicago Post Acute Care
Post acute care refers to the medical care that a patient receives after acute care. These services are performed to help the patient recover from an illness, a surgical procedure, or any other conditions that require acute care of any kind.
A patient who requires post acute care from Anuco Home Health Services will have the opportunity to review their medical requirements or have a representative discuss those needs on his or her behalf. Our care providers will work with the patient to develop an effective and comprehensive post acute care strategy that addresses all factors of the patient’s condition and monitors his or her progress throughout the extent of care.
The post acute care strategy will also include all stakeholders in the patient’s recovery process through direct communication with the many medical professionals and family members who are involved in the patient’s ongoing care and the post acute therapies and services needed. In the end, we all have one common goal for the patient – to restore independence for a complete recovery and a return to normal life.
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