January, 2019
38% of respondents said that after beginning to use Lyft to attend their medical appointments, they went to urgent care less frequently. This is likely because patients had the transportation means to attend appointments with their primary care or chronic care providers instead of having to mitigate crises in urgent care. This is ultimately less […]
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Sara Heath, Patient Engagement HIT
December, 2018
Evolent’s data found that within a specific population of high-risk patients, those with a transportation barrier had a 63 percent higher risk of readmission. In addition, when Evolent addressed transportation barriers in a timely manner through a comprehensive care plan that included participation by the health care provider, Evolent’s analysis showed that 30-day readmission rates […]
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Anita Cattrell, Health Affairs
December, 2018
For more than a decade, Memorial Hermann has been utilizing community health workers or “patient navigators” to ensure that the ER is not a visitor’s only medical home and to assist in access to resources that support overall health and wellbeing. An analysis of available data through the first half of 2018 comparing patient ER […]
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Alexandra Becker, TMC News
November, 2018
Long-term care providers say non-emergency medical transportation is crucial, as many beneficiaries have a high no-show rate to healthcare appointments, do not own a car and have limited access to public transportation in rural areas.
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Marty Stempniak, McKnight's Long Term Care News
October, 2018
According to the multicenter randomized clinical trial that included 592 adult patients, help from community health workers—who assist high-risk patients with fulfilling basic needs ranging from housing and food insecurity to transportation and locating an appropriate medical home—resulted in fewer days in the hospital and increased likelihood of reported high-quality primary care.
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Shreya Kangovi, MD, MS, Nandita Mitra, PhD, Lindsey Norton, MSS, MLSP, Rory Harte, Xinyi Zhao, MPH, Tamala Carter, CHW, David Grande, MD, MPA, and Judith A. Long, MD